Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). Equalities officer for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
Fandom | Cultures | Research @fcr-journal.bsky.social international OA journal for fan and audience studies based in Germany | bilingual (DE/EN) | 2 issues per year | different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers
https://journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/index
Emma Carroll Hudson @emmahudson.bsky.social Fan advocacy scholar • BTS ARMY • PhD student at American University • UTK and SU alum • DC-based • Scorpio
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/
Smell Studies Journal @smellstudies.bsky.social The first international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the field of Smell Studies
Prof Kirsty Fairclough @profkirsty.bsky.social Prof of Screen Studies, SODA at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Music Commissioner GMCA
Series Editor-British Pop Archive
https://linktr.ee/kirstyfairclough
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
GET OUR NEWSLETTER: http://eepurl.com/crCul1
Editors:
@lainenooney.bsky.social
@daveparisi.bsky.social
@liebenwalde.bsky.social
Soraya Murray
Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱
https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition fosters inquiry in feminist histories, theories, and pedagogies.
https://cfshrc.org/
Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social Senior TV editor @ Collider. Romance nerd @ Vulture. TCA member. Author of A REGENCY GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE from DK Books. She/her. Subscribe to my Kissing Books newsletter: https://kissing-books.ghost.io/
Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social Professor of English at U of Utah. 1L. I compare literatures…now, with more law! Current teaching: Global Lit (Fall 2026). Current projects: Kafka, fanfic, torts, etc.
Tamar Herman @tamarherman.com Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait.
Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social Manchester's quality newspaper. Sign up now - we only publish via email.
Send tips to our reporters @ophiraophira.bsky.social, @jackdulhanty.bsky.social, @lucymclaughlin.bsky.social and @alecherron.bsky.social
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
Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @lynsayhodges.bsky.social 📚 Doctoral student: life after SA, including stigma, oppression, and coping methods
🏳️🌈 Interests: trauma, disability/debility, Madness, epistemic violence, digital ethnography, + autoethnography
🔗 Read my work: https://linktr.ee/lynsayhodges
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, director of YarnLab at Stanford, founded the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Aaju [Ayu] @ayupxl.bsky.social J. Marčan 🇸🇰/🇳🇴 They/Him | Ikke-binær
I do pixel art! PhD candidate at MUNI FSS
Mostly personal projects and what I find fun.
My characters: https://toyhou.se/Arritra_Aaju
Zoë Jay @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social international relations, boycott eurovision, human rights, critical pedagogy, cats, deutsch, suomea. she/her/hän.
mae. @mcapistr.bsky.social she/they. cinema & media studies (cams) ma student. usc.
bianca kang @kirillias.bsky.social 2nd year phd in societal computing at carnegie mellon //
sociolinguistics, network analysis, fan studies
link: kirillias.github.io
Emily Coccia @emcoccia.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts at Carleton College * PhD in English & WGS from UMich * teaching and researching 19th C. American working-class reading cultures, media and fan studies, and queer and trans histories
Grant Sawatzky @grantzky.bsky.social humanities devotee; collecting books, records, and CDs; thinking about music, and thinking about thinking about music.
'free/composed' radio hour, hosted (as JCspins) monthly
Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
Yvonne ✨ oldmythos @oldmythos.bsky.social fic writer, PhD student, D&D enthusiast | ‘98 | she/they | researching fandom | 🔞 | 🏳️🌈
@jazzkatzine.bsky.social @jazzkatzine.bsky.social zine maker. zine collector. zine advocate. (also loves Baywatch Nights, don't hate)
Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social 📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
Meaghan Landrigan-Buttle (she/her) @meaghanlb.bsky.social PhD student - history/Irish Studies - Concordia University
Masculinities, romance novels, sex, and smut.
Likes dogs more than people.
@thesmutstorian on Insta
Claire Parnell @claireparnell.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Molly Keran @mjkeran.bsky.social Recent English lit PhD thinking about the intersections of pop culture & violence against women. I love cats, romance novels, pop music, and buying too many planners.
Kate Prior @thekateprior.bsky.social PhD candidate in Texts and Technology at UCF • media industries and fan studies • currently writing her dissertation on Superman 💙❤️💛 pfp by makowka
Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social just play the song, schneebly
📓 associate staff writer Pitchfork
🎙️ co-host Punk This Week
✏️ words at stereogum, npr, rolling stone, vulture, wired, etc. firstname.lastname@gmail.com
Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social Hobby farmer, wrangler of Morag the Terrier pup, duck whisperer, owner of all the tiny animals.
Retired on my Little Farm in beautiful lutruwita.
Believes the universe is magic, loves adventures gardening & destroying the patriarchy.
Forever Fred’s human.
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://drkeighleyperkins.co.uk
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social I research topics that make everyone feel very comfortable like periods, transphobia and abortion
co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social (she/her)
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff Uni. Researching populist parties and movements. New book out now: “Europe’s Populist Condition” https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-populist-condition
Dr. Megan A Armstrong (she/her) @meganannarms.bsky.social Lecturer in International Politics @NclPolitics. Interested in gender, security, critical pedagogies, and pop culture (mostly zombies). Overuser of exclamation points. Neurodivergent. 
Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social Rebellion and liberation and direct action and anarchism and queer stuff and militarism and policing and empire and cricket and cats and tired grumpy academia
Alex Yates @alexyates2000.bsky.social PhDing in Bath • Researching anti-populism • 'Moral panic breeds goose-stepping, can't just stand by rubbernecking' • he/him
Henrique Tavares Furtado @furtadoht.bsky.social Associate Professor at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social | Researches far-right militarism in contemporary "culture wars" | Co-convener of @reacpolrn.bsky.social | Author of https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-politics-of-impunity.html
Ellen Watts @ellenfelicity.bsky.social Interested in qualitative methods, and how we can teach them, and pop culture and political representation. Co-convenor @psampg.bsky.social.
Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social Father. Farmer's husband. Full time PhD researching the political economy of farming and farmland. ND. he/him. Writing: https://linktr.ee/AlexHeffron
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
Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social Junior Professor at Université Bourgogne Europe | Associate researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Convenor of @populismpsa.bsky.social | Populism; Style; Far-right; Identity
https://tinyurl.com/populiststyle
Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social Sociologist studying frivolous things and their serious consequences
Work: KU Leuven(BE)
Home: Utrecht(NL)
If you don't understand what I write it's probably Dutch.
More on my ERC project: sociologyofbeauty.eu
Meer over Lelijke Mooie Wereld: dasmag.nl
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Pink Pony Guerilla Girl @girletariat.bsky.social 26 | Transfemme (She/Her) | Higher Ed Shitworker | Marxist/Feminist
Discord: td_reverie
Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Southampton. Political sociologist researching queer lives, care, mutual aid, young people.
(they/them/elle)
Anthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social teaching fellow, ucd ics | phd, lse media & comms | reactionary political influencers and their social media audiences | views my own
Malwina Talik @malwinatalik.bsky.social Research Associate @idmvienna.bsky.social
working on migration | intl. relations | democratic backsliding | Poland | women's political participation | China
Em Kendrick @emilykendrick.bsky.social Doctoral researcher on moral panics and repression of resistance, looking at transphobia in the UK
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Lexidh Solstad @lexidh.catpasity.com 100% Original content!
Norwegian childfree crazy cat lady, married to a crazy dog man, trying to juggle chronic pain, adulting, crafting, reading, gardening, writing, and managing buildings/projects/investments. May contain nuts and insanity.
Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites
Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
Chloe Campbell @chloec.bsky.social PhD student 📚 Researching witch-wives, mid-century witches, and Suburban Gothic in lit, film & TV 🔮🪄 Commissioning Editor in academic publishing 📖 she/her🌛
Queer for Fear @queerforfear.com Heather O. Petrocelli, PhD—aka Dr. Horror Dyke.
I'm just a chronically ill, neurodivergent, immunocompromised, fat post-binary dyke into all things film—with a special interest in horror.
linktr.ee/queerforfear
Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers.bsky.social PhD in Trauma, Popular Culture and Postmodernism. Published with Palgrave Macmillan. Illustrator. Horror, movies, TV, games, cats. #mutantfam she/her
Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social Early Career Researcher ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic, C20th British theatre ◇ I run @makingitwyrd.bsky.social
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
Making It Wyrd @makingitwyrd.bsky.social A scholar putting a gothic spin on pop culture. Books, films, music - we're making it wyrd 👻
Check out our blog: https://makingitwyrd.wordpress.com
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social Combat veteran (Marines + Army). Friend of the working Mainer, foe of the oligarchy. Husband. Candidate for U.S. Senate.
www.grahamforsenate.com
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social Never getting any taller. Senior Reports Editor @ The Verge.
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social Writer. Black SFF always! Hugo Award Winner. One of the co-hosts for Just Keep Writing.
he/him http://brentclambert.com
Kat Fennelly @katfennelly.bsky.social Historical archaeologist, writer, fan of things.
Lecturer in Cultural Heritage at University of Sheffield.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social #Teaching specialist, School of Public Health, Adelaide University, Australia. DEI in teaching. #AuDHD, #Queer, #PublicHealth, #Sociology, #Ethics. Semi-pro musician. These immaculate vibes are my own, not my employer's.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4089-399
Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen Studies @craighaslop.bsky.social Gay Dad. X escapee. Senior Lecturer Media, Uni Liverpool UK. Digital masculinities, GBV online, LGBT TV &PR cultures. PI ESRC funded lad culture on social media & gender disinformation.
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
nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social Doctor in Women's Studies | Reporter, editor, researcher | Co-founder of The Flytrap | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine | buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/nicolefroio
Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social Asst. prof of TV/media studies. Current book project: US radio + TV horror anthologies 1940s-1960s, gender/domestic space + media technology, the uncanny. #FirstGen. She/her.
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
🗡️morgan🍄 @mushroomsmoth.bsky.social hopeful youth librarian, lover of fantasy
They/she
Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social The Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN) brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics
Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
Heart-Pages @heart-pages.bsky.social Dr. Michelle Cristiani
Stroke survivor, writer, anthropologist, teacher, fan. Batman and anime enthusiast. Older and hotter than you
Heart-Pages.com
methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social methods@manchester is a Faculty of Humanities initiative promoting The University of Manchester's expertise in research methods and interdisciplinarity.
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
Bea Martinez-Gatell @beamg.bsky.social 📚 History
🎸 Pop culture
💕 Optimism
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
Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, A Study In Sparkling, is out now.
Dr Amy Burge @dramyburge.bsky.social Associate Professor of popular fiction. Romance specialist. Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Network Lead for Muslim Women's Popular Fiction project. She/her. Currently writing about bonkbusters with @jodimca.bsky.social
Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social Sociology phd candidate. I’ll tell you disturbing things about Christian nationalism and right-wing extremism (sorry).
https://linktr.ee/nopebrigade
Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social Emmy Noether Research Group "Hollywood Memories" based at Leibniz University Hannover, funded by @dfgpublic.bsky.social.
Hollywood movies | memories | generations | remakes | sequels | franchises
https://hollywood-memories.com/
Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social Autistic woman writing about autism, neurodiversity and neuronormative culture. She/her. 🇨🇦
Alex @drspider666.bsky.social Confirmed bachelor. Writing about queer & disability representation. Only watching anything for the queer-coded villains. Opinions my own.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Susan Faircloth @sfaircloth12.bsky.social American Indian (Coharie), Mother, Auntie, Scholar of Indigenous Ed/Ed Leadership, Former Fulbright Scholar to Aotearoa (New Zealand), Lover of Words & Food
Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!