GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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Screen Tasmania @screentasmania.bsky.social Tasmanian Government's body for supporting film, TV, Video Game and Online screen production
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Anita @c01.bsky.social 
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
Naomi Milthorpe @drmilthorpe.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania. Modernism-adjacent; reformed all-caps user. Working on Evelyn Waugh for the rest of time? She/her.
University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au Stories, research and more from the University of Tasmania. #1 in climate action globally.
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Jayne Knight @drjayneknight.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tasmania.
Naomi Parry Duncan @drnaomi.bsky.social Historian, writer, editor, whippet custodian, living and working on Dharug and Gundungurra Country and Palawa/Pakana Country. She/her. We cannot have peace without academic and artistic freedom. Free Palestine.
Imogen Wegman @imoweg.bsky.social Tea drinker. Cartophile. Lecturer in History at University of Tasmania. Currently writing a book about colonial land granting in Van Diemen's Land (lutruwita Tasmania) & crawling around archival rabbit holes. plotsandacres.wordpress.com
English at UTAS @utasenglish.bsky.social The English programme at the University of Tasmania.
Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social At Project MUSE, we believe that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity. 
Michelle Cahill @michellecahill.bsky.social Writer, flaneur, Letter to Pessoa, Daisy & Woolf
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
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Helen Shield @helenshield.bsky.social Radio, sleeping, remedial bushwalking. Views mine not my employer’s (work contact shield.helen@abc.net.au)
Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈 @emiliahoarfrost.bsky.social 📖 Student
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💘 Empress @linav87.bsky.social
Sonja Petrovic @sonjapetrovicc.bsky.social Lecturer / Researcher (Media & Comms)
The University of Melbourne
drsonjapetrovic.com
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Sarah Jessica Darley @sarahjessdarley.bsky.social PhD candidate at UEA following the fairy tale everywhere it leads💖 Lifelong Swiftie 🫶 Shōjo Truther ✨ Theatre Nerd 🧚♀️
Rachel 🩵 🍉 @shoujoscholar.bsky.social Rachel. Palestinian-American. She/Her. Feminist. 2nd Year PhD student in Media Studies. Shoujo fan. Teacher. CR: Nodame Cantabile https://anilist.co/user/shoujoscholar/
Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭)–🛍️BL Shop Open!🛍️–Got Laid Off (+=ω=) @samaburime.bsky.social Fujin Salaryman UWUke Listening to 80s, 90s & 2000s 🎵 all day ( ⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝)
➡️ My #art | My #comic | My #Lore
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Dr. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
Sarah @wadadlifeminist.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate, Caribbean feminist
2025 Hosei International Scholars Fellow, Tokyo, Japan | Race & Gender in Anime
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Shin Takahashi @sytakahashi.bsky.social Lecturer at Monash University. Historian. Okinawa/Japan/EastAsia. The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism (Bloomsbury 2024)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/translocal-island-of-okinawa-9781350411531
Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.
Shanna Gilkeson @shannagilkeson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
Matt Hills @matt-hills.bsky.social Independent scholar, former Professor of Fandom Studies, life-long Doctor Who fan, lover of genre fiction (especially SF and crime), frequently astonished reader of contemporary political commentary 
Hannah Semmelhack 🌲 @pitchpine.bsky.social 28 She/her. ♠️🏳️🌈🤍🩶🖤💜 https://www.hannahsemmelhack.com/
🌲Queer horror podcaster (writer, audio designer, VA)
🌲Pitchpine on ao3
🌲Graduate student studying fanworks, queer identities and asexuality.
🌲Co-founder of the Three Fates.
Dr Nemo 杉本 Martin @zeus-japonicus.bsky.social they/them | creator of Trice Forgotten, Les Mis Podcast | writer for Asian Pirate Musical, Marvel Move and more | PhD: Les Mis, fandom, race & gender | JSPS Postdoc Research Fellow looking at queer domesticity & masculinity in Japan
nemomartin.com
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social A peer-reviewed open-access journal exploring popular romance media and the logics, institutions, and social practices of romantic love in global popular culture. https://www.jprstudies.org/
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Matthew Meyer @yokai.com yokai artist based in Fukui, Japan
creator of yokai.com
support me on Patreon: patreon.com/theyokaiguy
books and artwork available at yokai.com/shop
Cora Berry @coraberry.bsky.social Off-Duty Cosplayer
Cora Berry @coraberrycosplay.bsky.social 73% Strawberry, 27% Cosplayer
Scarlet Moth @scarletmoth.bsky.social Artist & Designer | Cosplayer | RPG fan | Video Essayist | Actual swarm of moths | Neurodivergent | She/They | Opinions are my own
✉Business email: scarlet.moth@outlook.com
@radariant.bsky.social @radariant.bsky.social 🇦🇺 🏳️🌈 Mostly Cosplay 👩🦯 Chronic Pain Haver 👨🦳 28+
Main Fandoms are Arcane, Critical Role, Hatoful Boyfriend and Ace Attorney 💥
Silhouette Cosplay @silhouettecosplay.bsky.social ✨Loki shapeshifter✨📍Boston, MA
details galore • craftsmanship judge • costume tech
For guesting and collabs: silhouettecos@gmail.com
Ashley Remminga @ashleyremminga.bsky.social 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️ She/Her Graduate Researcher based at the University of Tasmania exploring Transgender identity in Gender-Bending Anime/Manga
✨Moonstone✨ @brightestmoon.bsky.social Writer, lurker & art enjoyer
aleks 🌷 @alekshime.bsky.social hi i’m aleks! idol/musician + ENG/日本語 (*´꒳`*) ♡ soobin - pompompurin - stardew - laufey - miffy
黄色メンバー @amuse_pro
Kelly 👒 @zosan.bsky.social 🇦🇺
In my pirate enjoyer era
She/They 🏳️🌈
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🔞NSFW!!!
@canarykid.bsky.social @canarykid.bsky.social 
tessu @tessfromtas.bsky.social an advanced tree
australian | 30s | she/her
meet me in the woods
Caleb||Briiightserpent He/Him @briiightserpent.bsky.social 23 year old Australian Cosplayer
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Scruffy, sad, disaster bi, cat dad wizard enthusiast
Emjaine @emjaine.bsky.social Em (she/her) |📍Melbourne | TTRPG enthusiast and cosplayer 🏳️🌈| biz email: emjainecosplay@gmail.com | Find me on other socials here ➡️ linktr.ee/emjaine
@pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
Images/poems mine unless credited. AI must be consensual.
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).
News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts.
www.animemangastudies.com
- featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
Steven J Phipps @stevenjphipps.bsky.social Climate scientist working at the intersections of climate change, the energy transition, international relations and humanitarianism. #Australia #Tasmania #Japan #Pacific
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stevenjphipps/
Kate Wonder @katewonder.bsky.social haunted mansion spooky time
Blackcrane @black-paper-cranes.bsky.social (FYI: My original twitter account @Blackcrane56 was hacked. I'm currently not active on twitter)
He/She/They 🌟 Healthcare Worker 🌟 Cosplayer 🌟 #dnd dice goblin 🌟 Theatre nerd 🌟 May reblog 🔞 content
Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social Welsh-Kiwi Japanese translator, chanoyu practitioner & host to a timeshare cat. Memorial Device ANT
Masafumi Monden @masamonden.bsky.social Lecturer in Japanese Studies, the University of Sydney, write about Japanese culture, fashion, beauty, and art. Enjoys teaching Japanese language, literature, and Japanese & Asian popular cultures.
NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is the union for all higher education staff in Australia.
Authorised by D.Cahill, Melbourne National Tertiary Education Union
Bec Tries @bectries.bsky.social Food and travel youtuber. Just trying my best!
📍 Tasmania, Australia
📧 bectries@gmail.com
NEW VIDEO: Sagano Romantic Train
Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social Assistant professor of feminist and queer cultural studies at National University of Singapore, PI of @casmidaproject.bsky.social @queermeninsg.bsky.social @cleansportssg.bsky.social, & Author of #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social (use code: E25MHSHO)
sparrow @sparrowtimes.bsky.social PhD in magical girl studies, recovering academic, bureaucrat at large
Grace Ting 丁恩宜 グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇹🇼Taiwanese American queer feminist scholar in HK (they/she)✨👭🏻
Mostly English (中文: Threads)
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 3 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Always looking for opportunities.
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
Queer Manga Research @queermanga.bsky.social Research account of James Welker (jameswelker.bsky.social) 、editor of Queer Transfigurations、『BLが開く扉』 &c. Mainly posting here about research &c. related to BL、yuri、trans、& other queer manga、anime、fiction、games、&c.
https://linktr.ee/james.welker
James Welker @jameswelker.bsky.social ジェームズ・ウェルカー（he/him）
I research queer cultures, feminisms, and popular culture & media in and beyond Japan・クィアスタディーズ、フェミニズム、グローバリゼーション、日本文化史を研究しています
More:
https://linktr.ee/james.welker
Renée Middlemost (she/her) @reneemiddlemost.bsky.social Dr of cult movies| Communication and Media academic | researching celebrity, fans, film, and media audiences| pop culture nerd | coffee enthusiast | dog Ma | WSL/Matildas fan | views my own |
Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies in Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching/discovering, fandoms, academia, and occasionally, life. Opinions strictly my own.
PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social The worlds most read and watched LGBTQ+ media publisher.
Our mission - to inform, inspire change and empower people to be themselves 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Find us at www.thepinknews.com
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him- C Claire Maree @clairemareeuom.bsky.social Japanese & English | Pronouns: watashi/atashi; -/her/- |
Professor in Japanese @ University of Melbourne | Researches gender, language & sexuality | Opinions are my own
Rebecca @stlrebecca.bsky.social 💙 Writer, runner, resister, wanderer, translator and professor, flood survivor. Debut novel The Kimono Tattoo. www.rebecca-copeland.com
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Emily @suika.bsky.social PhD candidate at @unileiden.bsky.social. Editor at @tokyoreview.net. Freelance journalist & translator. Volunteer lexicographer. Photographer. Tanka poet. Human.
研究者。記者。翻訳者。編者。日蘭・蘭日辞書編集者。歌人。写真家。人間。
Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
ayumi shinozaki | 篠崎あゆみ (she/they) @ayusheknows.bsky.social broke japanese podcaster, artist, writer, translator and so on
Podcasts: @magicalgirlayu.bsky.social @charmpointradio.bsky.social
https://ayusheknows.carrd.co
Anime Feminist @animefeminist.com Japanese pop culture & intersectional feminist analysis under one umbrella! Reviews, articles, podcasts, & more.
Visit Us: https://www.animefeminist.com/
Support Our Work on Patreon or Ko-Fi: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.- M Meg Rose @meganrose.bsky.social