Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social 🎶✍🏽📚Composer|Author|Poet Founder www.HaikuFest.com
Charles @eurek.bsky.social Trivia, salutations, & sports. Golf, soccer, basketball, hockey, chess, tennis, squash, etc. 🚫 No DMs. 🚫 No nudes. 🚫 No spam. 21 years and over only. If there is something offensive, let us know and we will remove it.
E Cristin O’Keeffe @cristinok.bsky.social Artist. Dog-lover. Astrologist. Aesthete. New Age Jungian. California Attorney. Consultant. Researcher. Eclectic defier of categorizations. Pronouns: They/Them, She/Her, He/Him—in that order.
jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social a woman on the case (non-gendered)
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Maya Thee Papaya @mayaskb.bsky.social 
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, coming soon!
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
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Dalanie Harris 🤓💖 @dalanie.bsky.social Music, history, & Black culture enthusiast, door to door Stevie Wonder advocate, cohost of Classically Black Podcast, @ booksaboutmusic on Tiktok 📚
D. Michelle @chelleter-d.bsky.social 
Ọláyẹmí @empressyemi.bsky.social All love, no wahala. Wanderlusting like crazy🩺✨
Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
@musicologer.bsky.social @musicologer.bsky.social 
Anna Stirr @annastirr.bsky.social 
Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social Classical music and opera journalist. Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
MrProfChanda @mrprofchanda.bsky.social 🍠🍉😷
Javier Dávila (he/they) 🇵🇸 @xjusticexpeace.bsky.social queer latine award-winning educator/researcher | ex-JW | CREATING RADICALLY LOVING ALTERNATIVES — in exile | abolition + transformative justice + disability justice | SV/GBV prevention | SUPPORT Legal Fund - pinned ⬇️
museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
Ade Adeniji @adeadeniji.bsky.social Staff Writer @insidephilanthropy. Other words: @wired @vice @rollingstone @SPIN @accuweather etc. NBA fan. Weather nerd. Alum @pomonacollege #ForbesBLK
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Erica Thompson @ericathompson.bsky.social Arts and culture writer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Former features editor of the Columbus Dispatch. Award-winning reporter on race and gender. #Prince biographer. Freelance writer.
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Cedric @cedricpreston.bsky.social He/Him.
Music & AfAm Studies PhD student, @yale. Alumn, @umich. Studying space, place, race, and gender in Black popular music.
Music Journals (Taylor and Francis) @musicjournalstf.bsky.social Posting on behalf of Contemporary Music Review, Journal of New Music Research, Jazz Perspectives, Popular Music and Society, Rock Music Studies, Journal of Musicological Research, and Ethnomusicology Forum.
Socials and links https://bento.me/musicjournal
laura sullivan @laurasullivan44.bsky.social former "recovering academic," media studies scholar, activist, digital artist // 50+ph.d. student w/o funding cashapp $urbanalchemist44 venmo @ urbanalchemist44
Nathan Mizell @nmizell.bsky.social 
Anton Blackburn @antonblackburn.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate (Ethnomusicology), Duke University | ethnographer of transness, aurality/audibility, and voice | marxist
Shanté Paradigm @shanteparadigm.bsky.social ❤️🖤💚 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Brooklynite. Dog parent. Buddhist. Travel. TV. Comics. City & Nature.
de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social DJ. Pianist. Writer. Assistant Professor.
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social The leading new music publication in the U.S. dedicated to living composers.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social Associate Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies Queen's University | Queen's University Department of English | Editor of "Insensible of Boundaries" (@pennpress.bsky.social 2025)| Human Animal
Max Wheeler @maxwheeler1.bsky.social Music producer on BBE, Brownswood, First Word Records, building a cloud DAW for Education and award winning music resource creator… 🚀
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
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Lily Hirsch @lilyehirsch.bsky.social Writer (often about music). Author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. New one about Angela Lansbury out now! Sometimes tries to be funny.
Danielle Pilar Clealand @profdanielle.bsky.social Black Caribbean scholar @ UT Austin
Diego Millan @diegom.bsky.social Books, food, flowers, running, coffee, mostly in reverse order.
Also an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies working on a book about laughter.
Bryan Epps @ivnames.bsky.social Crafting futures with organizers, storytellers & seed planters.
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Joseph M. Thompson @jmthompson.bsky.social 
Elliott H. Powell @ehphd.bsky.social Professor, UMN American Studies// I study race, sex(uality), & pop music // Author of *Sounds from the Other Side* (winner of the IASPM-US Guthrie & AMS Brett awards) // he/him
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
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Griffin Candey @griffincandey.bsky.social composer—Michigan boy—sentient cloud of cartoon noises—Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Tennessee Tech
Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
Sam Reenan @sam-reenan.bsky.social Music theorist researching form and genre mixture in early 20c music. he/him/his. Author, Symphonic Spectacles (OUP 2025). All views my own
Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.com Professes music theory & tech, head of Musical Arts Learning Lab at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social musicologist at the University of Delaware, citizen of West Philly.
Current:
•McCarthyism in the Music Industry, 1945-1960
•Performance and History in the Semiquincentennial
Past:
•What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017).
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Danielle Fosler-Lussier @dfosler.bsky.social Director, Imagined Futures initiative at Ohio State, for grad students finding rewarding careers in many lines of work. Musicology, global history, diplomatic history, women's history. She/her. Opinions my own. Repost ≠ endorsement.
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INTJ/CAPRICORN via ARK/LA/TEX
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Leticia Ridley @ltridley.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Blk Theatre & Performance (newbie sports scholar) Blk Feminist - Queer - Co-Host of @dolorrainepod- Ex-Hooper - Gamer (Sims, Creed, EA)
Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, DJ, radical, junglist.
Former streetmedic, current assoc. prof. More at http://larisa-mann.com
She/her.
I wrote : RUDE CITIZENSHIP: copyright, Jamaican popular music & reverberations of colonial power https://tinyurl.com/RudeCBook
J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social Black studies scholar
jalylah @jalylah.bsky.social 
Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social 🍉 Neutron Muppet 🍉
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vdotfdot @vdotfdot.bsky.social A Mama. Thinker. Music & people lover. Educator. Ph.D. AfAm rhetoric & colorism scholar 💕💚 she/her
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
anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social UofT Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Jewish Life & Social Justice, 2025-26 | Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, 2023-25 | professional afrojudeopessoptimist
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Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele @heyitsaugusta.bsky.social Higher ed professional, scholar of contemporary African and diasporic literatures, Nigerian, Ohioan (+ a sprinkle of Masshole)
1/3 of @specsntexts.bsky.social
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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social AP at University of Notre Dame ~ Johns Hopkins University PhD ~ Founder of HipHopRx ~ Performance Ethnographer ~ Historian of Medicine ~ Cultural Theorist
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Jason Gershenson @gersh.bsky.social Startup & Venture Capital Attorney | NYC 
Danielle Wiggins @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Historian at Georgetown | author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (2025) | Aries | Stevie Wonder stan
chloe h smith @leavesofclover.bsky.social alabama gal, musicology phd candidate @ yale working on music and civil war memory in the u.s. south
corwin @corwinmalcolm.bsky.social
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Justin Garrett Moore @jgmoore.bsky.social I care about people, places, and the planet. Views are my own.
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
which josh are you? @ddhewty.bsky.social If you don’t already know, you don’t need to know.
Old Soul Tobi @tobedome.bsky.social 26 | ♍️ | any pronouns | NYC for now | by following, you consent to seeing my skeets.
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.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
La Marr Jurelle Bruce @afromantic.bsky.social troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
hurstonian @ahmadgreene.com 🏫 professor, writer, lover
✨views are my own.
Antoine Hardy @slangdini.bsky.social I am not weird, just worldly. Undercover academic
Tricia Rose @proftriciarose.bsky.social Professor at Brown University, Director of the Systemic Racism and Resilience Project, Joy and Justice believer. www.triciarose.com
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quiet artist ⚒️ @misstaylorsaid.bsky.social 34 | bi | she/they
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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social cultural historian/theorist/writer/critic • love 🎶 & other artsy things • amateur boxer • professor • she/her• unserious
RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app "clever, knowing, jaded"
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Asia Leeds @asialeeds.bsky.social Recovering academic. Business Development & Strategic Partnerships. West Baltimore to West Africa. Bridge builder. Comrade. All power to the people.
📍Dakar
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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social Intercultural & Southeast Asian Music Researcher, Composer, Educator. Founder Saw Peep Intercultural Orchestra. Host of BBC "World of Classical." he/him 🖤 🩶🤍💜
Lauron J. Kehrer @lauronkehrer.bsky.social Associate Prof of Ethno/Musicology. Author of Queer Voices In Hip Hop. lauronkehrer.com #FirstGen academic. They/Them. All opinions mine.
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social musician, arts administrator; Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
"Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social
👻 @0x0.sigint.team Security. People matter most. Get off X, fool.
Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social BOOK: https://www.dukeupress.edu/together-somehow
I party so you don't have to. He/him, with notable exceptions. Gay affinity animal: capybara. Opinions are epiphenomena of discourse and power—and also my own.
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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine