GSS 2027 @gendercongress.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Gender & Sexuality Studies
🎓 Join GSS 2027 – 12th Global Congress
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 📅 May 13–14, 2027
📩 DM us for speaking & collaboration opportunities
Website: https://genderstudycongress.com/
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk
Former Prez of @aoir.bsky.social
Pessimist
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
Inga Luchs @lynxlynxly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Editor at meson press | Digital Culture, Machine Learning, Big Tech Critique
Ben Scholl @ben-scholl.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication.
Game Studies and Esports Researcher
🖥️ benscholl.com 
Tom Streeter @tom-streeter.bsky.social Prof. at Western in London Ontario. Wrote some books and articles about technology, culture, and politics. https://streeter.fims.uwo.ca/blog/
Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social (they/them)
queer game maker, games are bodies
phd in media studies. teaching game design.
https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social Educator|Author: "TeachTruth"
(haymarketbooks.org/books/2493-teach-truth), Co-editor “Black Lives Matter at School,” & TeachingForBlackLives.org | Co-editor, Rethinking Schools|Website: IamAnEducator.com | 4 booking: speakoutnow.org/speakers/jesse-hagopian
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Joshua Chalifour @owlyph.bsky.social Prefer Mastodon https://cosocial.ca/@owlyph | @owlyph@cosocial.ca. I'm a #librarian #bibliothécaire for Journalism, Communication Studies, digital scholarship at Concordia. Exploring information ecosystems & ethics. Writer. Montréal. https://chalifour.org
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Sex & Sexualities Journal @sexandsexualities.bsky.social Official journal of the American Sociological Association. Sex & Sexualities in a refereed online journal featuring intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational, and critical scholarship
LabCMO @labcmo.bsky.social Laboratoire sur la communication et le numérique - LabCMO.ca | Laboratory for Communication and the Digital - LabCMO.ca/en | Numérique et mutations sociales au prisme des pratiques📍Montréal+Québec, Canada
Florence Millerand @florencemillerand.bsky.social Prof. UQAM Montréal
Communication, Science & Technology Studies
labcmo.ca cirst.uqam.ca
English/Français
florencemillerand.uqam.ca
Dasol Kim 김다솔 @everysol.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SUNY New Paltz | 📚 working on a book manuscript about K-beauty! | sites.google.com/view/dasolkim-
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Taina Bucher @tainab.bsky.social 
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT • Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) • Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) • Toronto/Amsterdam
ECREA Gender, Sexuality & Communication @gscecrea.bsky.social Connecting researchers of communication, gender & sexuality. DM us with related CFP, events & articles.
ECREA's Gender, Sexuality & Communication section.
Visit our website: https://gcecrea.wixsite.com/gendercommunication
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
Lamia_Djemoui @lamiadjemoui.bsky.social PhD Sociology | Coord. Chaire UQAM de recherche ERICA | Chargée de cours: Perspectives Féministes Intersectionnelles & Sociologie des médias
Sujets de recherche: Honte, Sexualités Féminines, Séries TV et Mass Media; The Handmaid's Tale; Féminismes.
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Co-Savoir @co-savoir.bsky.social Centre de ressources spécialisées
Ressources francophones en alphabétisation, en éducation des adultes, en bibliothéconomie, en justice numérique et en égalité des genres.
https://co-savoir.ca
Giselle Bernard @gisellebernard.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the European University Institute History Department
@eui-history.bsky.social
Women's and Queer Histories
https://www.eui.eu/people?id=giselle-bernard
Co-convenor of the EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social
Tina Fetner @fetner.bsky.social Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦.
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social Urban & landscape ecologist thinking about nature-based solutions for biodiversity, people, and climate in the cities we live in. Prof @ Concordia. Probably talking about trees on the radio. Potter. Knitter. Baker. Gardener. Year-round cyclist. 🇨🇦 (she/her)
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
IRTIS @irtis.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society 🦄
We research how tech and social media impact people's well-being, online risks & opportunities for youth, anonymity, digital parenting, and more.
Masaryk University, Brno 🇨🇿
https://irtis.muni.cz
Emily Maemura @emae.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UIUC School of Information Sciences. Researching web archives, digital curation, digital preservation, data + infrastructure studies.
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.
Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social Our organization examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy. We’re housed at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and led by Taylor Owen.
Kath Browne @kathbrowne.bsky.social Human Geography Professor at University College Dublin. 
SCMS Adult Film & Media @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the Adult Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group for @scmstudies.bsky.social (the Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
Amy A. Hasinoff @amy-adele.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication
online harm | gender & sexuality | transformative justice | she/her 🏳️🌈
www.amyhasinoff.com
Deana Simonetto @deanasimonetto.bsky.social Sociologist of gendered violence, brain injuries, and sports. Feminist. Cat lady. Knitter.
Sonja Solomun @sonjasolomun.bsky.social Assistant Prof, McGill, Deputy Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy. Climate Justice, Platform Governance, Tech Policy
Banner: Hito Steyerl
Dr. Anu A Harju @memoriscapes.bsky.social Researcher of violent death and data. Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Media Studies, death, data and memory. Digital afterlife and politics of remembering. For feels in the current climate, see pic.
bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com they/m | brimwats.com | PhD., etc. | UWOFA strong
professing @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
🔗 Homosaurus.org HistSex.org CritCat.org NCPWG.org QMDC & TMDC
Stéfany Boisvert @stefyboisvert.bsky.social Professeure à l'École des médias, UQAM
Critical Media/TV/Gender/Screen/Cultural Studies
Codirectrice du LaboPop - Laboratoire sur la culture de grande consommation et la culture médiatique au Québec
Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social researcher, teacher, writer
associate professor of media and communication at UNH
privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries
Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer in media and communication at the University of Leicester. Researching businesses in the policy process, greenwashing, the UN Plastic Treaty, platforms, content moderation, and more.
When possible also about birds, books, and BJJ.
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
Kristian Møller @kristianm.bsky.social Researcher, digital media and queer sexuality
kristianmj at gmail.com
Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉
Mylynn Felt, Ph.D. @mylynnfelt.bsky.social Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Weber State University
Social Media & Civic Advocacy Research
She/her/hers
Opinions are my own
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
AM Trépanier @wettransfer.bsky.social art, média, recherche ❈
wikimédienne
codirectrice https://cigale-cigale.ca
https://amtrepanier.com
Ada X @ada-x.bsky.social 📌 centre d’artistes féministe bilingue
📱 media arts + digital culture 🤖
📡 espace de production, résidences, événements, formations, activités éducatives, HTMlles Festival
4001 rue Berri, espace 201, Montreal, Quebec H2L 4H2
linkin.bio/ada_x_mtl
Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social Palmer Chair in Law and Public Policy at Dalhousie Law. Formerly @ UCLA and Yale. All things tech and democracy. Dachshund enthusiast.
Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social Culture and Society || Museology || Critical Heritage Studies || Cultural Analysis || Memory Studies
Umeå University, Sweden
🌌❄️🏳️🌈
Critical theory witch. En gång femtekolonnare - alltid femtekolonnare.
Natalie Kouri-Towe / NKT @nataliekt.bsky.social Associate Professor, Concordia University
Reading the Room: https://www.concordia.ca/press/readingtheroom.html
Better Practices in the Classroom: A Teaching Guidebook: https://opentextbooks.concordia.ca/teachingresource/
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
@pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 
Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social Professor, Northumbria University; Co-Editor Porn Studies #pstudies; #pornstudies; #sextech; #sexualities; #mascnet; #digitalintimacies
Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social flâneur, bricoleur, professor of wisdom, master of none, seeker of autonomy
Debbie Ball @debbieball.bsky.social Design features doctoral researcher currently in social media rehab. Eternal music fan.
Data and Society lecturer at University of Westminster. Music pr at Create Spark, representing Big Joanie, Andy Bell (Ride), Soft Cell & more.
Sylvie Grosjean @sgrosjean.bsky.social Sylvie Grosjean, Ph.D
Department of Communication
University of Ottawa
Website: http://ctilab.ca/
#Digital_Health_Technologies #Datafication_of_Health #HCI #Co-Design #Multimodal_Interaction_Analysis #Health_Communication #Organizational_Communication
Andrew Perfors @perfors.net Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN) 🤳🏽✨ An interdisciplinary community for humanistic + qualitative studies of digital creators and emerging platform economies and cultures. Join us!
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto
ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Anthony McCosker @amccosker.bsky.social Professor in Aus, on the verge of working it all out. Leading a research institute called SIRI. Researching digital, data and AI capabilities.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Nathalie Schäfer @nathalierimb.bsky.social Media scholar researching fame-enhancing bots on Instagram. PhD candidate @bauhaus-university Weimar | horse trainer.
www.nathalieschaefer.de
Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙨 | 🇭🇰
The Publishing Triangle @publishingtriangle.bsky.social The Publishing Triangle is an association of LGBTQ+ writers, editors, and publishers that celebrates queer literature. Established in 1988, it offers awards, resources, and community for those dedicated to LGBTQ+ stories. https://publishingtriangle.org/
Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social Feminist lesbian asking queer questions about peace & security | Lecturer at Uni. of Manchester | Jamiejhagen.com | picturesofbirds.tumblr.com/
Queering Women, Peace and Security out now with Oxford University Press http://bit.ly/45NJMBJ
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Kelley Cotter @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Penn State | Digital and algorithmic literacies and inequalities, technocultural discourses and imaginaries, tech ethics and governance.
Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social PhDing @USCAnnenberg // studying media, technology, environment // prev @Cornell @MSFTResearch @CDT // Angelino & 臺灣人
https://www.stephen-yang.com/
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu
Truthout @truthout.org Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
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Elspeth Iralu @elspethiralu.bsky.social Angami Naga. Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning. @ACMEjournal editor. I write about Indigenous geographies, visual culture, and the aerial perspective.
Scott Long @scottlong1980.bsky.social He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
Melissa Adler @murmz.bsky.social Prof, FIMS-Western-Ontario. American-Canadian. Cruising the Library (Fordham), Peculiar Satisfaction: Jefferson in the History of Libraries, Archives & Museums (Fordham 2026) Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty Bloomsbury 2026) She/her 🌈
jenny kelly @jennykellyedu.bsky.social associate professor of feminist studies & critical race and ethnic studies at ucsc / author of *invited to witness: solidarity tourism across occupied palestine* / books + babies + baked goods / free palestine forever 🍉
Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social Publicly intellectual. Race, gender, activism, and all things Black/Muslim. Anthropologist. Dr. Auston if you’re nasty.
Juana María Rodríguez @radiorodriguez.bsky.social A queer Latina femme fighting for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸Author of 📚Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex//Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings//Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces juanamariarodriguez.com
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
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
Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social Author of This Colonial Present (forthcoming) & Poverty in Common; ed. of Formations of US Colonialism; co-ed. of For Antifascist Futures & Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization, vol IV (in progress)
Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social transformative justice. disability justice. abolition.
(she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org
Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"; "Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture"; and "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform."
Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic
PhD in American Literature
Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
they/she 🏳️⚧️ | my views, not employer's |
book:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social prof @ UCSC. Black study, translational + transnational blackness, disaster, diaspora, Palestine. Fond of toast. Often bruised. she/they.
Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social Poet. Author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine http://bit.ly/2iwoRfW.
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
bit.ly/NoMorePolice
bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds
InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com