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The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social Podcasted conversations on the past and future of Black Studies, hosted by our editorial collective - Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, and John E. Drabinski. Follow via links at linktr.ee/blstpodcast. Contact us at blackstudiespodcast@gmail.com
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ヨコヤマセツコ @setsukoyokoyama.bsky.social study speech-to-text technology x language diversity ::: teach sociopolitical history of tech x speculative design // dh x intersectional feminism 😌🌿💕 https://www.sutd.edu.sg/profile/setsuko-yokoyama/
Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social Anarchist, antifascist, cop hater, law breaker, Black and Dominican.
Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social Committed teacher, midnight believer, solo soul. Still a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Here for all things Donny Hathaway, Deep Space Nine, Patrice Rushen and Futurama. And for general smart stuff, foolishness and irreverence.
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courtney @cuppacourtney.bsky.social historian and collector of unread books.
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ASA DH Caucus @asadhcaucus.bsky.social Founded in 2009, the Digital Humanities (DH) Caucus works to support the study of digital research and teaching within an American studies framework. https://theasa.net/communities/caucuses/digital-humanities-caucus
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social Pprofessor. Black environmental literature, war, and 19th century Black life. Former President of C19: The Society for 19th Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. New book: Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery (Duke UP). D.C.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. US material & visual culture, museum studies, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects. shirleywajda.com
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big b and the b stands for bedour 🌙 @balagonline.bsky.social writer, professor | ✍🏽_the interminable catastrophe_ | strong from years of fantasy & study like amiri baraka | say mashallah bc i’m even hotter irl 🧿| https://linktr.ee/bedouralagraa
@cr-05.bsky.social @cr-05.bsky.social unraveling
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social Saving Southern LGBTQ history
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Deeskiswoman @deeskiswoman.bsky.social Fiber artist. I mostly quilt. Trying to learn crochet, and weaving. I love anything to do with fabric or yarn.
Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social Radical acts of craft & making 🪡 We curate exhibitions, events & a journal exploring modern decorative art, craft & design 🧶
Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social Home to @ccp-org.bsky.social, Black Women's Organizing Archive, and @DouglassDay.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/digblk
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
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@blkgirlarchivist.bsky.social @blkgirlarchivist.bsky.social Storyteller. Archivist. Activist. Creator of Reparative Archives and all spin-offs! (Proper citation please) Founder of Project STAND https://standarchives.com/
Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’
Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’
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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.com Professes music theory & tech, head of Musical Arts Learning Lab at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
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cms @camillemarys.bsky.social Researching museums & extraction
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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social community for BIPOC library workers first. 🌿 community school + community study + we here press + we reads + we together.
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Material Culture & Heritage Studies Laboratory @ IU Bloomington @mchsl.bsky.social The Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory (MCHSL) is home for a research group led by Jason Baird Jackson, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore Studies and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington.
Ny Thee Historian @undeniyable.bsky.social Phd-ing at Princeton 🐅 Double Hoo 🔶🔷 KP DST 🐘❤️ Oenophile🍷Travel 🌍 Joy ✨ RTs ≠ endorsements. Website: www.niyambates.com
Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social Construction history worldwide. Materials, technologies, systems and people relating to construction in the past. Journal, members' magazine, conferences etc
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Lawana Holland-Moore @ellemoorehp.bsky.social Architecture + history=❤ Preserving historic sites & history w/National Trust for Historic Preservation 🏚🏠 My opinions. she/her
Dee @deelasheeart.bsky.social Visual Artist | Children’s book Illustrator-Author| Black AF | Queer | She| M.A in Psychology
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social Living on Tsalaguwetiyi (Eastern Cherokee) Land. PanAfrican Linux Geek Bookworm Atheist Secular-Buddhist Kettlebells DevOps Sysadmin Socialist Antifa BlackLivesMatter #SODA
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Dr. Michelle @lipsticklitterati.bsky.social The People’s Professor | #FREADOM |#FreedomToRead |💗💚 | Using books & #BlackFeminist lit to make a better world | #BlueWave | #KidLit & #NonProfits | Proud #SCBWI member |Happily 💍! | Posts are mine, all mine.
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Gerard Miller (they/them) @altaredroots.com Herbalist. Full-spectrum birthworker. Tidewater conjure. Historykeeper. Sacred Other. Committed to empowerment through Ancestral memory.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer.
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
Zakiya @zzcollier.blacksky.app Afro-Carolinian Archivist of Black Culture 🖤📁
Zakiyacollier.com
Zakiyacollier.com/black-memory-workers
Ed Summers @inkdroid.org I'm actually over in a little corner of the fediverse at https://digipres.club/@ed but I will pop in here once in a bluemoon, you know, if I absolutely have to (mostly never).
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Alicia L. @dykearchive.bsky.social Writer, researcher, reader 🪐
Françoise Hamlin @francoisehamlin.bsky.social Teacher, writer, mama. Associate Professor at Brown; published Crossroads at Clarksdale,These Truly Are The Brave, From Rights To Lives (2024) & republished The Struggle of Struggles. Editor of Journal of Black Military History
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
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TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology MAs + PhDs
🌍 Journal: https://jwsr.pitt.edu/
📕 Books: https://blog.pmpress.org/kairos/
🏴☠️ Lectures: https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Fair Budget Coalition @fairbudgetdc.bsky.social Fair Budget Coalition fights for a just and inclusive DC budget. Join our work at fairbudget.org.
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Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social The Journal of Southern History—published by the Southern Historical Association and edited at and supported by Rice University—is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South broadly conceived. thesha.org/jsh
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit
Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
Jovan Scott Lewis @jovanlewis.bsky.social Working on and toward relational repair
Professor of Geography & Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at UC Berkeley
jovanscottlewis.com
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Writer of words, hater of prisons
Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & other things. PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA coming March 2027:
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Red Emma’s @redemmas.org Worker-owned radical bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, the greatest city in America
RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app "clever, knowing, jaded"
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Kimberly Juanita Brown @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social Word nerd. Feminist ladyfesto. Eye spy. Analog. Author of The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary and Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual. In the Dark Room. Always.
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Vinny Thomas @vinnythomas.bsky.social ancient reptile in real life, Omar on Platonic. formerly known as vinn_ayy
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social economist | from NJ | he/him
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Toshi @toshiandthesongs.bsky.social
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Danyelle @danyelletw.bsky.social
Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper
Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
Stony Morrison @rrandolphjr.bsky.social pleasure theorist | Dad/dy| educator | writer | sensualist | vernacularist | country boy |
phd in educational/cultural studies 🌺 NSFW sometimes…
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Glenda Gilmore @glendagilmore.bsky.social Historian who lives in Connecticut and County Kerry. Latest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination.