Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian , writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
Rob 🏳️🌈 @rotster.net "Classic petty gay". Plant botherer. Aspiring retiree.
He/him.
lnk.bio/rotster
IWGB @iwgbunion.bsky.social The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain is a grassroots member-led union fighting for of some of the most ignored and marginalised workers in the UK.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists.
Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social Legitimate businessman
https://ko-fi.com/philmcduff
https://open.substack.com/pub/philmcduff
@mcduff.75 on Signal
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social Resisting the global rise of Fascism. Social impact writer. PhD in Creative Writing. Sixth book of poetry, Understorey, coming out February 2027 (uHlanga Press). Librettist and amateur artist. 🇿🇦 LLMs are a scourge. 🚫 NO AI SLOP
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Lucy Potter @lucypotter.bsky.social ESRC Research Fellow at the Uni of York | PhD in non-religion, apostasy & asylum | Sociologist exploring identities, human and refugee rights & (de)coloniality
https://linktr.ee/drlucypotter
Ryan Davey @ryandavey284.bsky.social Anthropologist | Out now: The Personal Life of Debt: Coercion, Subjectivity & Inequality in Britain (Bristol Uni Press). https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-personal-life-of-debt. Teach social sciences at Cardiff Uni. @RyanDavey284 on twitter.
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social Writer, theatre-maker, bread enthusiast.
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
OUFC 💛
AlexKanefsky.com
JBR Creative Management
Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social 🇵🇸
she/her
Posting through the end times.
No AI, no centrists, no fash, we deserve better.
Aqsa S @aqsasz.bsky.social Senior Policy Officer, Anti-Racist Organiser, School Exclusions Advocate. May liberation become a reality for us all. Free 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩 all views my own
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Liam Shrivastava @liamshrivastava.bsky.social Mayor of Lewisham
| Promoted by Lewisham Green Party at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social 'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and @thewhale1851.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
Shelagh Fogarty @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming.
Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration @icibi.bsky.social Official account of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, providing independent scrutiny to the UK's border and immigration functions.
Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social Follow us for immigration updates, campaigns and stories!
Find all our other content here: https://linktr.ee/RMJustice
What do we do?
📍 Immigration advice & representation
⚖️ Take government to court
🎤 Centre lived experience in our advocacy
Melany Cruz @melanycruz.bsky.social Lecturer in International Politics | Political Theory | (non)violence, feminism, Latin America | Chilean in the U.K
Simon Pirani @simonpirani.bsky.social Historian, researcher of energy systems, Ukraine, Russia, & more. Blog: https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/. Author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (2018) & Dissident Communists in Early Soviet Russia (2023).
Luke Shuttleworth @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social Postdoc @HumboldtUni.
Reactionary Politics | Racism | Polarisation | Political Communication
he/him
Race Equality Network @racequalitynetwork.bsky.social We are an anti-racist charity working with grassroots + global majority communities to challenge inequality in Bradford + beyond.
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social We provide high-quality legal representation, support and hope to people experiencing immigration injustice across the North-West of England.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gmiaunit/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/gmiaunit
IAA registered: N201000004
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social Hard-hitting news & comment for the left. Subscribe to our daily newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/y8mwvvbq
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Lisa Matthews @lisaleziza.bsky.social
Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social Deputy Leader, Green Party of England & Wales. co-leader of Wealden District Council, Sussex. Spokesperson: Culture, Sport & Digital Inclusion. Founder of Birds Eye View int'l women's film festival. Friends of River Medway. Ashdown Forest conservator.
Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social Association de mobilisation citoyenne venant en aide aux personnes en situation d’exil et plus largement aux personnes survivant à la rue. Nous sommes présents dans 7 villes en France. Maraudes / Hébergement / Urgences
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Molly Fleming @mollyfleming.bsky.social Comms nerd @NEON_UK, training and pitching progressive voices for TV and radio.
she/her
Jaya Sood @jayasood.bsky.social NEF senior economist 🤓 former civil servant - HMT budget scorecard & DESNZ carbon budgets strategy ⚡
Avnee@IPPR @avneem.bsky.social Associate Director of Public Services at IPPR. Working to mainstream progressive policy. Views are my own!
Fiona Rutherford @fionarutherford.bsky.social Chief Executive of JUSTICE, the UK’s law reform and human rights charity.
Izzy Romilly @izzyromilly.bsky.social 📍London • climate action, safe cycling, campaigner • sometime freelancer 📸 • views own
Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social Writer and taker of pictures. Books like Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (1992), Return of a Native: learning from the Land (2022) and England's Military Heartland: preparing for war on Salisbury Plain (with 3 m8s). http://vronware.org
Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath | ESRC New Investigator - Feminist Foreign Policy | https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/jennifer-thomson
Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Julia Simon, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, and Peter Marshall
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
Mohammed Al-husari @m-alhusari.bsky.social LSE Human Rights
Investigating Syria war crimes for SBC
Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; environment rep, Durham UCU. Writing a book on non-reciprocity.
janabacevic.net
ECRE @theecre.bsky.social The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is an alliance of 126 NGOs protecting and advancing the rights of refugees, people seeking asylum and other forcibly displaced people in Europe.
https://ecre.org/
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social Stop Trump. Stop Trumpism. We still resist.
https://stoptrump.org.uk/
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
——
Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Colm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, UCL. Irishman in London (and sometimes Brussels).
A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social The Fourth Estate should not be the Fifth Column | linktr.ee/avdeggar
Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com Award losing journalist
https://linktr.ee/SamanthaAsumadu
Bronya Smolen @bronyasmolen.bsky.social Human rights campaigner. Currently at Refugee Action
RAS Voice @rasvoice.bsky.social We are a group of refugees and asylum seekers who are campaigning to change the asylum system in the UK.
(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
Project Play @projectplayfrance.bsky.social Supporting and advocating for children on the move in northern France through play, parental support and casework.
Play is power!
adriana romer @adrianaromer.bsky.social Lawyer @ Swiss Refugee Council (Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe SFH)
Board member of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
Migration, Dublin Regulation, Europe.
a black xborg • theory without practice ain't shit @rpaulint.bsky.social visiting fellow LSE Sociology · postdoc Aston University · editor at @philosopher1923.bsky.social · co-convenor @bsarace.bsky.social · he/him/they ·
✍🏾 carcerality, borders, forced displacement, coloniality
share ≠ endorsement
🔗 linktr.ee/rpaulint
Manchester City of Sanctuary @manchestercos.bsky.social manchester.cityofsanctuary.org
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Adam Vasco @vascoadam.bsky.social Director of Student Success. Leadership, anti-racism & cultural competence advocate. Team Square Peg. Scouse-Nigerian. Views are my own.
David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social South of the Thames, south of the Yarra. Rootless cosmopolitan. Historian. Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and University of Melbourne. Racism (against). Arsenal.
Isabella Leroy @isabellaleroy.bsky.social Researcher / Economic Migrant / Islamo-Gauchiste • Postdoc at Gent University with the DISSECT project • Human rights, migration law and refugee camps 🍉
Memet Ali Alabora @memetalialabora.com Actor | Director | Creative Director of https://bakcreative.agency
Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social Writer, IDSGpod co-host, antifascist, Shoggothic Marxist. He/Him.
patreon.com/cw/jackgraham
idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/author/jack
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social
working for @haymarketbooks in london
Shamira A. Meghani @drmeghani.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Dept of English Studies, Durham University
~ postcolonial, anti-colonial & diaspora, queer, trans & feminist, lit & film ~
Vegan (since 2001!); as low-carbon as I can; often angry, ever hopeful. non-binary (they/them)
Nicola Burns @nickyburns.bsky.social Curious about lots of things. Research and teach about disability, migration, health and human rights. Enjoy a good natter, tai chi, gardening. ‘Heid full of magic’
Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social [On Hiatus]
Doctoral researcher at the research cluster for Global Social Policy Dynamics at @unibremen.bsky.social. Interested in quantitative social sciences, social protection, anti-racist and climate activism and cycling (not in that order).
Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social Work in news and public affairs. Climate change/energy/tech, Pokémon, X-Men & LGBT+ rights. 🏳️🌈 retreating from the bad apps
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social PhD researcher at Royal Holloway working on sexualities and asylum in the UK and France (she/her)
ainebennett.uk
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
@rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social
Naz Shah MP @nazshahbfd.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Bradford West 🌹 Proud Yorkshire Lass
Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social Network of grassroots organizations documenting illegal pushbacks & police violence by EU member state authorities in the Western Balkans and Greece.
Mathieu @mathbarbu.bsky.social Refugees welcome!
Abolish frontex!
@amanihassani.bsky.social @amanihassani.bsky.social
Madeleine Sumption @msumption.bsky.social Director of Migration Observatory @ University of Oxford. I research migration policy, mostly in the UK
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social Filmmaker: Hyperobject Industries/Yellow Dot Studios
Climate & societal collapse with some sports and movie talk. And yes, the mixture is disorienting.
Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social Progressive publishing on Politics & IR, Economics, Middle East, Asia, Africa, International Development, Sociology & Gender. Sign-up for news: bit.ly/3pxyHjb
Nadine Voelkner @nadinevoelkner.bsky.social Assoc Prof International Relations @ CIRR, University of Groningen. Director @ NOHA. Researching the political ecologies of microbes, disease, and disasters
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bosky.social | ex-Open Society Foundations | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social lecturer in law, KCL
researching UK executive power, national security, political economy and human rights
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/daniella-lock
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He, they.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Julie Lejeune @jlejeune.bsky.social ECRE - IFDH/FIRM - Asylum, Migration and Human Rights in Belgium and Europe a.o.
Books, Friends, TaoistTaiChi and the open air 🌳 Together strong!
Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social Forum of orgs and activists working in the UK-FR-BE crossborder space. Plateforme d'assos et militant.e.s travaillant dans l'espace transfrontalier UK-FR-BE.
Human Rights Observers @humanrightsobs.bsky.social Nonprofit organization
Documente et dénonce les violences d'État perpétrées contre les personnes exilées à Calais et Grande-Synthe.
https://linktr.ee/humanrightsobservers?fbclid=PAY2xjawHRMSxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABprtyrBVg70zzSHyeTdD2m_lYXhRkaYcZNDbMax12823XCR7