By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
LGBTQ Books & Persons @svukic.bsky.social LGBTQ+ People: who we are, through books.
#lgbtq #gaybooks #queerhistory #lgbtqfamilies #gayfiction #gayliterature #pride #gayreader #booksky
Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social Award winning security researcher | Microsoft MVP x7 | Google Hall of Fame | Music & video creation |
Hacktics and Telemetry Producer |
UK Immigration (family reunion)
https://soundcloud.com/umawing
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Mr.Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social Call Mr.Snrub, That's my name, That name again Is Mr.Snrub. He/him.
Wyldwood Renaissance Festival @wyldwoodrenfest.bsky.social Official Wyldwood RenFest account. News, updates, and behind-the-scenes from The Year of the Bard, May 2026.
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. University of Nottingham. World-class research. 🌏
https://linktr.ee/aecral
Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social We are a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end our community's support for Israel's occupation and apartheid.
https://linktr.ee/naamod
Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social Trans theologian and connoisseur of fine heavy music
Co-Editor of Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today (T&T Clark, 2024)
Read my stuff: https://linktr.ee/nicoleteburbach
Can't access my DMs. Opinions are my own
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Innovations in Linguistics Education @innovations-ling.bsky.social Innovations in Linguistics Education is a diamond open access journal dedicated to teaching and learning in linguistics. We're accepting submissions from January 2026.
Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social #MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please, Bit face blind so won’t recognize you out of context!
Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
He/Him
https://www.markthomasinfo.co.uk
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social The first openly French-Canadian author to be banned in Texas. 🏳️⚧️
Patreon : www.patreon.com/assignedmale
Tipjar : www.ko-fi.com/sophielabelle 
Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People @leafjournal.bsky.social Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People. Publishing scholarly articles by children's writers in the academy. View our past issues: https://ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/issue/archive
Find us online: https://linktr.ee/leafjournal
Children & Youth Studies BMCC @cysbmcc.bsky.social The only Children & Youth AA Program at the City University of New York; home to the Children & Youth Studies Consortium. https://bmcc.catalog.cuny.edu/programs/CYS-AA
Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social Analysis & commentary on UK law affecting trans people and their rights. Our work is unfortunately suspended at the moment.
Deeply opposed to UKSC/FWS ruling of 16/4/25 & to its blatant exploitation to hurt trans people by the EHRC, the media & others.
Making Trouble Podcast @mollynaylor.bsky.social The creativity podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Hosted by Molly Naylor. New episodes every Monday.
Nottingham Against Transphobia @againsttransphobia.bsky.social 
Trans Pride Notts @transpridenotts.bsky.social ☆Trans Pride Notts 20th June 2026☆
The official account for Nottingham's Transgender Pride
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhk3EIULu__ZBMajimb5ox6xsa3GOkTvD3VFnPg8aOd31Kkg/viewform
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Victor Rosi @victor-rosi.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at #UCL #SHaPS interested in voice identity and gender diversity
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Laura Pettitt @petitmoilaura.bsky.social 
Han @han2thet.bsky.social Lefty red panda fan who talks in Simpsons quotes & loves music & Nintendo. She/Her.
Beyond Reflections @beyondreflectuk.bsky.social Charity working to create a safe community for trans+ people and their allies, providing support designed with and for the community.
https://linktr.ee/beyondreflections
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
🙏 buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi
📝 panyiszabolcs.substack.com
🗞️ vsquare.org/newsletter
✉️ szabolcs.panyi@vsquare.org
Jimmywim @jimmywim.bsky.social Weather Nerd 🌤️. Social History Nerd 📖 Music Nerd 🎶 Architecture Nerd ⛪ Beginner knitter 🧶 Conservation Volunteer 🌿 Calligraphy ✍️ Cathedral Botherer ⛪
Beth Howard @june-6-bug.bsky.social childless gay cat lady
Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter. Everyone deserves healthcare, food security and safe, stable housing.
AzumahCarol @azumahcarol.bsky.social Professor of Education, Policy and Practice at Open University.
Writes about post-16 education. Drinks wine (occasionally). Completed C25k and still running. Likes interesting people.
Proud owner of colour coded bookshelves.
DM 📧 = instant unfollow
@lavlang.bsky.social @lavlang.bsky.social We're the only conference dedicated to queer & trans linguistics/language & sexuality.
#LavLang31 Manchester 20-22 August https://lavlang2025.wordpress.com/
Summer Institute Online details TBA
@annikaherb.bsky.social @annikaherb.bsky.social YA literature researcher & writer. Education Development Lead. She/her 🌈 Researches gender & sexuality, queer lit, environmental fiction, Australian lit, & SoTL. Associate Editor at IJYAL.
Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Writer of poetry/fiction for children (Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, Nimblewitlit, The Toy) and adults (Shine, Viridine, Underbelly, Rough Diamond) | Pushcart nom '26, Times/CH LL | he/him
International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social An international journal focusing on the theory, critical interpretation, literary history, and cultural production of young adult literature.
kevin b mcgowan @kbmcgowan.bsky.social phonetician, linguist, associate professor, musician, gen x nerd, he/him
mechanically separated woman @euphory.gay extremely temperate. linguistics student. she/they
"Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real." --Baudrillard
Eric Wirth @bearic79.bsky.social Scrufflebutt, applied linguistists PhD student, 🇺🇸🇪🇸🇫🇷, traveler, western MA dweller, and husband to photographer https://bsky.app/profile/paulspecht.bsky.social
Cedar Brown @ceeed.bsky.social Linguistics PhD candidate @ ucsb | queer & trans language practices & community
poetry & fiction: @elwinschok.bsky.social
Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social 🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
Julia Bird @juliamarybird.bsky.social Lover of words, music, cahoots and escapades
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io she/her/xe/xer
Support my work: https://taliabhatt.com
Preorder CALL ME KIMBERLY: https://taliabhatt.com/#rcbg
Co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social, co-author of "Attack Dogs" with @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Read ATTACK DOGS: attackdogs.ju.mp
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social
Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online Linguist, anthropologist, writer re: dating, marriage, population + the internet
📍ORD
2nd generation Etsy witch
3rd generation socialist
Friendly internet matchmaker for hire
https://erikas.online
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English/日本語/Русский/יידיש
they/she • あの奴 • она • זי
Transform Nottinghamshire @transformnotts.bsky.social Official branch of the Transform Party in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, UK. Party dissolved, 26/11/2025.
worms cited @christa.bsky.social 
Chris Tregenza @tregenza.bsky.social I take photos of people (amongst other things)
#Nottingham
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Nottingham Confidential @nottmconfidential.bsky.social Nottingham Confidential. Everything you ever wanted to know about Nottingham, confidentially. We always follow back Nottingham Blueskyers.
nottinghamconfidential.blogspot.com
English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/engmediacentre/
Lucy Farfort @lucyfarfort.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator/Author based in Newcastle UK. SCBWI & SOA member. FAB Prize 2017 winner. Rep'd by Ash Literary.
Picture book - In Our Hands, Jhalak Prize shortlisted & Little Rebel Awards longlisted.
Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social Writer~Professor~Literacy Advocate~Blogger~Creative~Community Organizer-Consultant
Native Chicagoan living in the south.
YouTube: @tiffanyaflowers
Spoutible: @Prof_Flowers
Fanbase: @drtiffanyaflowers
Medium: The Black Aesthetic Tradition Blog
Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social He/him
Children’s author, dad, former teacher of 13 years 🏳️🌈
Contact: ian@thereadingrealm.co.uk
Agent: Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary
Jewdastine Action @jewdas.org Radical Voices for the Alternative Diaspora || Refugees Welcome || Gratuitously Jewish || Free Palestine
Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk Runs Biscuit: Advocacy, community and support for bi+ people in the UK.
Not interested in middle class comfort or correcting my dyspraxic typos. Very interested in amateur academics (kidlit and social history) and lovely shoes.
linktr.ee/we_are_biscuit
Mainely Mandy @mainelymandy.bsky.social Queer. Leftist. Mainah. She/her. Youtuber. Comedian. Polyam.
https://youtube.com/@mainelymandy
Wayne Martino @waynejm.bsky.social Professor Equity and Social Justice Education, Western University Canada. queer and trans studies: https://www.edu.uwo.ca/about/faculty-profiles/wayne-martino/index.html
Amie Doughty (she/her) @amieadoughty.bsky.social English professor; fantasy, children's and YA literature, and folk literature scholar and fan; cricket and hockey nut
D. H. Kerby @dhkerby.bsky.social Husband. Stepfather. Person in solidarity with migrants and the homeless. Veteran of the anti-apartheid movement. Published poet. Member of the human family. DHKerbypoet.substack.com.
Valeria Ochoa (she/ella) @valeria8a.bsky.social Spanish Linguistics profe, focused mainly on Spanish as a Heritage Language at Oregon State. 🦫 Views my own.
Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Sociolinguist, Linguistic Anthropologist, Discourse Analyst. Language, GENDER, and Sexuality. Trying and failing to keep up with just about everything.
GENDER: Ambivalent masculine
Assigned male at birth
Language Ledger @languageledger.bsky.social Language Ledger provides accessible updates on the latest in linguistics, bridging academia and the public. Perfect for linguists, students, and anyone curious about how language shapes our world.
http://languageledger.substack.com
ACpresso @acpresso.bsky.social digital text studies / corpus linguistics / literature / language 
Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John @lsjysj.bsky.social Official Bsky account of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research @yorkstjohn.bsky.social. Follow for news, updates and events! https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/centre-for-language-and-social-justice-research/
Tyson Seburn @seburnt.bsky.social Find #werkbookpodcast, the Queer ELT podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen. 🏳️🌈 #HowToInclusive #LGBTQinELT #QueeringEd
il/ele/he
-> seburnt.substack.com, IG @seburnt
Lizzie (Heather) Addington @lizzieh-a.bsky.social 
Vanessa Smith @v-smith.bsky.social Broxtowe Alliance councillor for Beeston Central at Broxtowe Borough Council. Teacher of English for Academic Purposes, feminist, knitter, sewist, odd'un. Views my own (she/her)
Amirul Hakim Shamsudin @amirulhs.bsky.social Conversation analyst | Gender & sexuality | Health(care)| LGBT-affirmative care |Universiti Malaya | He/They| Queer-feminist | I also play RPGs, shooters and MMOs! https://linktr.ee/amirulhakimshamsudin
Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social Linguistics PhD Researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Co-producer and frequent host of the Language on the Move Podcast. Big fan of languages.
She/her.
#Sociolinguistics #AppliedLinguistics
https://www.languageonthemove.com/podcast/
Tarot Interviews @tarotinterviews.com A world-first interview series where artists and creatives share their stories through tarot. Listeners in 55 countries. Produced by @finbarre.com. Based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Podcast - https://tarotinterviews.com
Trekademia @trekademia.bsky.social Academics and scholars who are passionate about Star Trek—whether for rigorous research or casual exploration. #Trekademia #StarTrek #academicsky #Trekademic
Starkey Comics @starkeycomics.bsky.social I mostly make images about language and interesting maps.
Broxtowe Alliance @broxtoweindies.bsky.social A local, independent party in Broxtowe, Notts.
Putting politics back into Broxtowe through grassroots community organizing and campaigning. Local, Vocal, Visible all year round.
Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social WBA, St Pauli, decent music, good reads, cycling and other lost causes. Getting on a bit.
Pete @skybluedudge.bsky.social A Coventry City supporting. socialist father of two grown up, wonderful daughters. Hate the evil Tories. All views here are my own as they say at the BBC ...
We Deserve Better @wedeservebetteruk.bsky.social We Deserve Better than a race to the bottom by Labour & the Tories. Join our alternative - the politics of hope: https://wedeservebetter.uk
Ben Gray @cllxben.bsky.social Nottingham and East Midlands Green Party Co-Chair
Dad, Cyclist, Inventor, Green Party, former Borough Councillor, keen runner, enthusiastic OCR participant, tree hugger, PhD Chemist, increasingly grumpy.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
Jana Carpenter @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social Actor (Lovecraft Investigations), musician (Sweet Billy Pilgrim), wife to @juliansimpson.bsky.social, mother to Edith, and general dork about town. Studying for a PhD at Birkbeck.
Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social Writer-director. Aldrich Kemp, Lovecraft Investigations etc.
Married to @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social
Main site: https://www.cartoongravity.com/
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
john c. worsley @jcworsley.bsky.social Game designer & co-founder at ClutchPlay Games. Sometime illustrator & electronic musician. Sci-fi, horror, & general rain enthusiast. Perpetual Pumpkin. 🎃
Private School (and Landlord) Labeller @handle.invalid Labeller to show which (mostly UK) posters (mostly media/politics) on Bluesky went to private school, and what the current fees are for that school. Also check out @parents.blue Problems? Reporting accounts? Report through BSky or Email mail@daddys.cash
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Lindsay Burton, PhD @lindsayburton.bsky.social AP English teacher in West Michigan
Children’s/YA Lit & Media Researcher
All thoughts/posts/likes are my own
My publications: http://bit.ly/3CxqLb1
sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social freelance investigative journalist, 2024 British Journalism Awards shortlist
fact-checker & subeditor @tbij.bsky.social
they/them
Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social Temporarily Embarrassed Communist.
Neilly from the YouTube channel The Leftist Cooks
Watch us here: https://youtube.com/@theleftistcooks
Follow Sarah: @saribo.bsky.social
Sometimes I write, video edit or compose music for other channels #speirgorm
Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social A loudmouth. ✨ https://youtube.com/@theleftistcooks
The less charming half of The Leftist Cooks with @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social