Disability Studies Quarterly @dsqjournal.bsky.social DSQ is a multidisciplinary journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS), advancing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and promoting the full and equal participation of disabled people in society.
Ailish Maura @ailishmaura.bsky.social LitRPG Fantasy author
former grad student in religion studies
mostly repost pretty art with occassional writing updates and thoughts
(She/her) transgender lesbian 29y/o
Jessica Hinson-Williams, PhD @jhinsonwilliams.bsky.social Disabled librarian, researcher, & educator studying disability, neurodiversity, & education ๐ #ActuallyAutistic (she/her)
Heritage People @heritagepeople.bsky.social Connecting global cultural heritage - Tangible & Intangible. Things that should be remembered; and things that should not be forgotten. @colleenwood.bsky.social and @woodac.bsky.social
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org The latest research in Archaeology from @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Peter Metz @pgmetz.bsky.social Lover of history. Fan of Star Trek and Star Wars. Craves fairness, compassion, justice and equity for us all. He/ Him I have friends everywhere
Connoisseur of pizza.
Safe space ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Emily Webb @emilywebbcrime.bsky.social True crime writer. Advocacy and Comms work โฅ๏ธ Wales Cymru thanks to Welsh husband. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Love old time radio drama, archives. Living on Wurundjeri Country she/her https://linktr.ee/emilywebbcrime
Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social Academic publisher of books, journals, eBooks, textbooks, software, and online learning resources. ๐๐ก
MNG Social Sciences @mngssbooks.bsky.social Featuring the latest social science titles from a range of international publishers. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk We believe that art history inspires people to think differently and see differently. Find out more about our vision, mission and work:
www.forarthistory.org.uk
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Selena M Moon @selenammoon.bsky.social Disabled hafu Japanese American historian researching JA disability, mixed race, military hist, Smith College, UMass Public Hist. UMN American Studies #PhD student, Accessibility consultant โฟ author #DisabilitySky she/her views mine https://selenammoon.com
lee agelastus ๐ฟ @liciniicrassi.bsky.social mature classics student, roman history | road cycling, atleti | ๐ด๐บ๐ฟ 20s, he/him ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Info: www.ancienthistory101.org
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Julia Mรฉtraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones โข jmetraux@motherjones.com โข She/her โข Berkeley Journalism alum โข Signal: @juliametraux.49
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Katherine Pickett, Editor (she/her) @popediting.bsky.social I help writers achieve their dreams of publication. Owner of POP Editorial Services LLC. Award-winning author, #editor, writing coach, workshop leader, avid cyclist, amateur painter. #Resist
blog: www.thePOPnewsletter.com
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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. ๐ฒ ๐๏ธ ๐ ๐ฑ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ท
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix ๐ Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window ๐ sarahwride.co.uk
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, UK. Going out to steal a movie. All poorly thought out views his own, don't blame his peers/employers. Contact at 'archives' on https://tinyurl.com/58tkxrb7
He/him.
Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social Photographer specialising in heritage and ancient Egyptian artefacts. Neurodivergent and living with MECFS.
Also at https://tetisheri.co.uk and https://tetisheri.substack.com. She/her.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage ๐ค based in the UK ๐ museumsassociation.org
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Anna Freed @annasusanf.bsky.social disability, archaeology, and disability archaeology. accessibility officer @mus_ethno_group. consultant with disabled students uk. ostomate. white. she/her โจ
@stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social
Author Gabriel Garcia @authorgabegarcia.bsky.social Published Author of Historical Fiction โ๏ธ, Fantasy ๐ฆโ๐ฅand Sci Fi ๐ค. Host of Tales from the Wandering Scribe on YouTube. Avid book worm and Classical Historian.
wonderingscribe.com
Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece
who do you think you are? I am
she/her pronouns in bio, every time
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Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Department of History, Saint Maryโs University @historysmu.bsky.social Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax / K'jipuktuk. Offering BA & MA degrees as well as minors in Applied History and British Studies. For info: history@smu.ca
Dany Coutinho Nogueira @danycnogueira.bsky.social PhD in biological Anthropology, interested in Human evolution, Paleopathology and Virtual Anthropology. European Research Area fellow at the Univ of Coimbra
danycoutinhonogueira.weebly.com
Michelle Mahoney @michellemahoney.bsky.social Neurodivergent Activist, Writer, Educator, Disability Advocate.
Author of Strange Fellow Bobby: The Neurodivergence of Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.
Substack: michellemahoneyautisticadvocate.substack.com
White Levy Program for Archaeological Publications @whitelevyprogram.bsky.social The Program supports research on terminated and unpublished archaeological field work from significant sites from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Since its inception in 1997, more than 20 million dollars in grants have been awarded to over 350 scholars.
laura cowley @lauracowley.bsky.social Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online
CripAntiquity @cripantiquity.bsky.social Our mission is to combat ableism by amplifying disabled and neurodivergent perspectives; creating resources that will empower individuals and transform institutions; and fostering community among our members. cripantiquity.com
Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ, ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐ญ, ๐๐๐ฌ๐ค๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐๐ซ. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ, ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐. ๐๐จ ๐๐'๐ฌ. ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ.
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Lucy Grig @lucygrig.bsky.social Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
Helena L. Martin @helenalmartin.bsky.social priest + PhD student studying disability, demons, monsters, and magic in the NT and early Christianity. I find a typo in every single thing I read. (she/her)
โThen God gives a command, and the ice melts ...โ (Psalm 147:18)
Harry Dresden @harrydresden.bsky.social One Harried Wizard. Thanks for the pics, Little Candle.
Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
Subscribe and tell your friends!
Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC โจ
AccessibleHigherEd.com
DisabilityDaily.podbean.com
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft โจ๐ป๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ not fascist shit tho
๐จLetterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธThey/Them ๐๐ฆฎ@ScholarsLab Director
๐ 3 ! in a hoodie โ๏ธ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
The Squeaky Wheel @thesqueakywheel.bsky.social Satire for Disabled People, by Disabled People.
๐NEW TO BLUESKYโฟ๏ธ
thesqueakywheel.org
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Aruna DโSouza @arunadsouza.bsky.social Writer and critic, mostly contemporary art, sometimes food, always politics. New York Times and Hyperallergic, among other places. Iโm surprisingly sweet. Live in NYC, originally from ๐จ๐ฆ
Thomas M. Pflanz @thomasmpflanz.bsky.social Doing queer Egyptologies
Research Volunteer (Egyptian Collection) at the Field Museum of Natural History
27, queer, autistic
UChicago - MAPH 25'
Rutgers-NB '22
Tale Keeper for Tales from Grevelon
https://www.thomasmanfredpflanz.com/
David Shiffman, Ph.D. ๐ฆ @whysharksmatter.bsky.social I am a marine conservation biologist studying sharks and a science writer. Posts are about science and the environment, science communication, and more! He/him
ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social ASOR is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world.
Subscribe to our free newsletter Ancient Near East Today: https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/
Quentin Touraud @geomuseo.bsky.social PhD student in Museology
@mnhn.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr
Natural history, Anthropocene, Landscape transformations, Heritage loss
Emily K.D. Smith @ekds.bsky.social Booze Archaeologist, Nubiologist, PhD Candidate, activist, coffee addict. Angry blob that watches too much anime and plays too much D&D.
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Jo Urriola-Schonewolf @ajschwlf.bsky.social Getting better tattoos soon.
E.S. Raye - Author & Screenwriter @esraye.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ
Writer of scifi and horror short stories, novels & screenplays.
Editor in Chief of @perseidprophecies.bsky.social
๐๐ข๐ด ๐๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต: ๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐บ๐จ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ช๐ง๐ต available now!
esraye.com
Karen L. Kobylarz @kkobylar.bsky.social Writer and educator who should have been an Egyptologist
Board Member of the American Research Center in Egypt, Chicago Chapter
https://karenlkobylarz.wordpress.com/
Kathryn Davies @kathrynfdavies.bsky.social PhD candidate in History of Art at The Courtauld โข Monstrosity, posthumanism, and early modern print culture in Antwerp
she/her
Crips Against Cutsโฟ๏ธ๐ป @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social A Crip led grassroots group working Nationally to fight Government Cuts and reduce isolation through community.
๐ป๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ๐ฆฎ๐ฆพ๐ง ๐ฉโ๐ฆผ๐ฆป
๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๐ฟโ๐พโ๐ผ
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage @uolhumanities.bsky.social
Megan Schlanker @meg-sch.bsky.social She/Her | PhD Researcher in History | MSc BioArch๐ฆด | BA Ancient History and Archaeology๐ | Underrepresented Archaeologies + Youth Engagement + Neurodiversity Acceptance
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space UK-based Museum Learning Consultant & Maths Communicator
๐ Author of The Mathematicians' Library: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16778/9781836004851
๐ TeaKayB.mathsy.space
๐ธ๏ธ @TeaKayB.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
#MathsInMuseums #MuseumEd #MathsJam
@dadman03.bsky.social @dadman03.bsky.social All around geek. Miniature, video and board game enthusiast. Oh, and books. And Star Wars.
Vaccines DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
No kings. No Nazis.
And I donโt respond to DMs.
Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social Prehistoric Archaeologist ๐บ& Museum ๐enthusiast. Came for the adventure, stayed for the stories. PrehiStoryteller/VorGeschichtserzรคhlerin. she/her.
Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social Sharing, teaching, listening, shaping.
Museum Education Roundtable inspires innovative thinking for the field through engagement with scholarly and practice-based content explored in the Journal of Museum Education.
https://www.museumedu.org/
Isabelle Lawrence @isabellelawrence.bsky.social Curatorial and Collections Assistant (Science) at UCL. PhD exploring disability histories in the British Museum collection, the ethics of representation & the impact that collaborative practice has on the narratives we construct.
US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social **ON HIATUS**
Tracking the impact of right-wing policy on US education.
Iโm a former public school teacher/current mom of a public school kid.
๐NYC
https://www.departmentofedtracker.com/
Nikita Owens ูููููููุชูุง @nikitameo.bsky.social รireannach . Piano Teacher . Egyptology Certificate @UoMEgyptology ๐น๐๐ด . Music Degree @MaynoothUni . gender atheist . ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฎ๐ช
shu wan as a disability historian @shuwan1.bsky.social A doctoral student in history at university at Buffalo
Emily Elsworth @emilyautism.bsky.social UK Based Museum Access Consultant,
Public Speaker,
Autism Trainer,
Rep for GEM Yorkshire and Humberside,
Steering Group for Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network,
Actually Autistic,
Passionate about accessibility.
She/Her
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
NADSN @nadsn.bsky.social
Nicola Kelly @nicolakelly.bsky.social Museum person, working for two brilliant museums ๐
Inclusion, collections, outreach, community. #DylanThomas #PASCymru #PortableAntiquitiesScheme
๐ Wildlife, plants, cats ๐บ
Dyslexic, Dysgwr Cymraeg ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Liz Danner @lizdanner.bsky.social Researcher, educator and public engagement practitioner passionate about making science and heritage accessible. All views (and spelling mistakes) my own, etc.
@n-n-zakaria.bsky.social @n-n-zakaria.bsky.social
Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
Sally Lewis @sallyel.bsky.social Freelance Curator, cross sector collaborator, museums, dance, dance in museums, creative methods, collections #DancingHeritage. Lived experience energy-limiting sleep disorder. Co-producer Active Inclusion: Equity in Employment (find us on Linked-In)
Becca Lo Presti @beccalopresti.bsky.social Historian, curator, and a big fan of granite! I study the histories of science, medicine, and disability through material culture
Raquel Novais @rlnovais.bsky.social Egyptology & Non-Profits Communications
๐ฉโ๐ MA in Digital Humanities at Linnaeus University
Kickass Women of History @kickasswomenof.bsky.social PODCAST LAUNCHING 7TH JAN!
Each week, Amy and Emma will be joined by a different expert to discuss the life of a woman from the past who deserves to be better known. They could be from anywhere in the world, and have lived at any time in the past.
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Pantsuit Nation @pantsuitnation-us.bsky.social Pantsuit Nation came together to consistently build toward a more equitable and engaged democracy, truly representing ALL of us. A coalition of feminist partners working together, invite you to join us as we build, resist, fight, and win. Letโs organize!
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Marรญa Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social Skeleton in an ill-fitting skin suit | Ad Astra PhD Researcher in Bioarchaeology of Disability @ UCD dublin | she / her ๐ ๐โจ
๐ mariaserranoruber.wixsite.com/home
Deaf Heritage @deafheritage.bsky.social Deaf historian and filmmaker
Dr Alison Eardley @alisonfe.bsky.social Psychologist turned Museum Studies researcher. passionate about museums, access & inclusion. Co-I on @SensationalMuseum. PI on W-ICAD. Co-editor of The Museum Accessibility Spectrum. Fulbright-Smithsonian scholar. She/her.
Unexpected Learning Journey @unexpectedlj.bsky.social Chronically ill student and writer exploring the ancient world from home | Open University classics undergraduate | Lytham St Annes Classical Association digital officer
https://linktr.ee/unexpectedlearningjourney
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social UKDHHH is a network to allow those interested in Disabled, Neurodiverse, & D/deaf histories, from the ancient world to the modern era, to connect & collaborate. We are open to researchers, archivists, museum professionals, activists & everyone in-between.
Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social Director of CHAP CIC; prehistorian, flyfisher, ferroequinologist. Jack of some trades, master of none. FSA
Opinions are all my own...
www.heritageCHAP.co.uk
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in Victorian literature, literature and science, and museum studies.
Dr Hรฉlรจne Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social Historical consultant: helenemaloigne.wordpress.com
Curator @ British Museum
Represented by Past Preservers: www.pastpreservers.com
Good chocolate, disco and houseplants
They/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ค๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Dr Alice Williams @aliceinmuseums.bsky.social AHRC Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Archaeology | Museum and exhibition history, specialising in the display and reception of collections from Egypt.
Sara Noviฤ @novicsara.bsky.social MOTHER TONGUE, out now.
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
๐ง๐ป deafie | they/she/๐๐ผ |๐Philly
https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders/archive
https://linktr.ee/Novic