Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences in Britain; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Alice Maio Mackay @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️22 y/o filmmaker
5 Shudder / AMC plus exclusives
Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
Sireesh Gururaja @siree.sh PhD student @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. Working on NLP that centers worker agency. Otherwise: coffee, fly fishing, and keeping peach pits around, for...some reason
https://siree.sh
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Mark McCormack @markmccormack.bsky.social Sociologist. Professor. Focus on sexualities, transgressive leisure and society. Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Posts are in a personal capacity. I volunteer with The Loop, read and play badminton.
KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social NYT #1 Bestseller. Grammy nominee. Your butch aunt. they them etc
Writing: keegan.substack.com
Also writing: keeganshepherd.com
Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social Lever Press is a collaborative #openaccess scholarly publisher driven by the values, ambitions, and imagination of the top liberal arts colleges.
leverpress.org
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social One of those queers.
PhD candidate on Trans Horror.
He/him ze/hir
Katherine Lucia Prentice @katherineprentice.bsky.social Glasgow based horror nerd👻
Researching disability, witchcraft, decoloniality, & ecofeminism in LatAm and Celtic folk horror @ northumbria uni🧿
Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
Dr. Cindy Conaway @drcindyconaway.bsky.social Professor of Digital Communication and Media Studies at SUNY Empire State University. I study Seinfeld and Digital Humanities. 
Geoffrey D. Henry, Ph.D. @ghenry2.bsky.social Ph.D. in Communication - Film from Georgia State University (GSU). Moving Image Studies track.Former graduate teaching/research assistant in the School of Film, Media, & Theatre at GSU. Primary scholarly interest: TV mystery/detective shows. He/his/him
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Danilo Barauna (he/him) @danbarauna.bsky.social Researcher | Curator | British Academy International Fellow | Newcastle University
Queer Ecologies • Artists’ Moving Image
ghoul thing @davevriser.bsky.social he/him. graduate student, writer, & transsexual horror. work appears in Bloodletter, The Arkansas International, and Dark Matter Presents: The Off-Season. Not Only Will This Kill You But It Will Hurt The Whole Time You Are Dying via Tenebrous Press 2027
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA
Eugie Award Finalist
tammykomoff.com
#writer
Dr. Regina Higgins @reginahiggins.bsky.social Writer, editor, PhD in English. I edit academic books, articles, and more.
rax 🏳️🌈 she/அவள்/elle @raxsha.bsky.social sex + tech guy raksha.gay
📍 paris & nyc
Isabel Millán @imillan.bsky.social Author of Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature (2023, NYU Press) & Chabelita's Heart (2022, Reflection Press). Associate Professor, WGSS, U of Oregon 🌈 🍉 www.isabelmillan.com
GG Dascal @gg-dascal.bsky.social 📚 Film studies • Cultural studies • Literature
🎓 PhD from the University of Manitoba
🏳️⚧️ Non-binary (they/them)
Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org APA Pacific Free Online Zine Reading + Launch Party: Apr 11, 2026
Trans people & our loved ones are not okay—in, with, and because of academic philosophy. #beingtransinphilosophy tells these stories firsthand. https://being.transinphilosophy.org
Erotic Film Globe @eroticfilmglobe.bsky.social The history of sex in film
https://www.instagram.com/eroticfilmglobe?igsh=eDJ6MGRpd203NGFj&utm_source=qr
Zeynep Sandalli @zeynepsandalli.bsky.social Project Coordinator & Teaching Fellow, @uni-freiburg.de
MA Political Science/Political Theory from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social Canadian small press publisher of film + pop culture books, developer/producer/distributor of independent film. Owned by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social
www.spectacularoptical.com
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social Independent researcher and writer focused on digital culture, archives and libraries, former librarian @MIT, builder of collages 
Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social Filmmaker based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social Television historian, writing a book about Play for Today (BBC1, 1970-84). Associate Lecturer, Northumbria University. Book Reviews Admin for Critical Studies in Television journal.
Tyler @ebdim9.bsky.social Film studies PhD | Adjunct Worker | Slow Cinema | Realism | Offscreen Space | Psychoanalysis
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
cass @cassiusa.bsky.social boy
writer
tired
VB —> MPLS (southside all day)
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Helen Morgan Parmett @hxmorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film & TV Studies at the University of Vermont. Co-Director of the Lawrence Debate Union. Studies media, place, and, identity. Author of "Stadium City: Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States"
Meghan Hewitt @floodme.bsky.social Researching all things horror lit, film, and gaming focusing on identity, monsters, and storytelling.
B.A TCD - M.A UCL
https://linktr.ee/thefloodflow
she/her
Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Luddite | Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction | Space | Gothic | Cats |Writing | Bad Drawings in Ink
Claudia S @claudsicon.bsky.social ✨PhD cinema & studies✨ Assistant Prof / UTSC / Arts & Media ✨mom in academia, web gleaner, cinephile, feminist, reader, eater, walker ✨I like watching pictures move ✨Treaty 13, Tkaronto, she/her
Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social Film and media publisher for Bloomsbury books + BFI.
Theresa Trimmel @ttrimmel.bsky.social TV scholar and Lecturer at the University of Bristol.
Anna Rose Stamm @annarosestamm.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Indiana University | Managing Editor for Film History | STS - Broadcast History - Cultural Geography - Local/National Histories | annarosestamm.net
Logan Phlox Wilder (they/them) @loganphloxwilder.bsky.social PhD Candidate at SUNY Buffalo
Qualitative scholar writing about transgender online sex workers
Opinions are my own and do not express those of my employer
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Joel @exadyto.bsky.social Midwestern Californian. Humanities guy. 🏳️🌈
“In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status. But not for long.”
Damon Xanthopoulos @damonxanth.bsky.social I'm a drawer, in that I draw.
Anne Raker @anneraker.bsky.social Grammy award winning Space Camp
graduate. Hoosier. She/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Muscle Distribution @muscledistribution.bsky.social Muscle is a new film distribution company.
http://www.muscle-distribution.com
Hollis Griffin @hollisgriffin.bsky.social professor guy & professional homosexual.
Van Troi Tran @vtroitran.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies and Tourism at UQAM | Anthropology, food and bears
Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social Social & Legal Epidemiologist | Health & Policy
Has written for The Advocate, Out Magazine, Health Affairs, & The Hill. And works interviewed in New York Times, The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, & NPR.
#TransPinay 🇵🇭🏳️⚧️
Dr. Robert F. Mullen @drmullen.bsky.social Social anxiety, mental health, behaviorist, writer, workshop facilitator, dog lover
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
nanocrit @nanocrit.bsky.social NANO: New American Notes Online is an indexed, Open Access, and Open Source humanities journal. NANO never charges to submit or to read content. Account managed by the editor, Sean Scanlan, PhD.
https://nanocrit.com
Michael Helquist @mhelquistwriter.bsky.social Activist, historian, author, "Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions," Stonewall Honor Book for bio of 1900s lesbian doctor & activist., worked for CDC WHO, served as director of AIDSCOM.
#women'shistory, #LGBTQ, #AIDS #gayhistory #memoir #USAID
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social Historian of modern India, technology, foreign relations; editor (Contingent Magazine)
Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social Cartoonist, killjoy, co-host of saucepodcast.com, creator of the beloved feminists superhero parody comic gynostar.com
she/her
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
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
Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social Quake shirt with a French tuck. https://umabreakdown.neocities.org/JunkInTheTrunk/
https://linktr.ee/Umabreakdown
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
有靈 Yo-Ling (他/they) @yolingwrites.bsky.social queer/aspec/trans/nonbinary Taiwanese American scholar/translator/activist/writer
www.yolingwrites.com
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/
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Ben Kruger-Robbins @bkrugerr.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor in the Film Studies program at Weber State University with research/teaching interests in television/broadcast history and queer media.
Transnational Screens Journal @tscreensjournal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, Transnational Screens welcomes submissions on any aspect of transnational film, television, streaming culture, and screen media practices.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rtrc21/
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
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social teaching Film at KCL | editor at world picture | author of The Seduction of Space (U Minnesota Press 2025) and Hotels (Fordham UP 2025). Account not in regular use.
John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives and Library @waygayarchives.bsky.social Arts & Culture at William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA. Art, Archives, Library. waygay.org
Liminologist @erinsandersmcd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent. Feminist Scholar and Ethnographer. Labour Party Member. Trade Unionist.
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social Queering history in every imaginable way!
linktr.ee/outhistory
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social Scholar of Shirley Jackson and periodical culture, funded by Research Ireland. Research interests include periodicals, Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, popular culture in general, zombie bites in narrative and popular discourse. Opinions my own.
aki 🏳️⚧️ @ajth.bsky.social on Wurundjeri land
Mike Vazquez-DeAnda, PhD @playfulmike.bsky.social Games scholar & designer, queer, Latinx, rasquachero.
Play is sacred.
Pronouns: any/all
https://www.madeanda.com
Briand (Brinni) Gentry @brinnigentry.bsky.social she/her. UMich PhD candidate in FTVM | film history & visual cultures, colonial image regimes, touristic fantasy, experience as mediated by built space & moving image
Vincent Albarano @valbarano.bsky.social Author of Aesthetic Deviations: A Critical View of American SOV Horror 1984-1994; writer on underground film and zine editor
https://linktr.ee/valbarano
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io she/her/xe/xer
Support my work: https://taliabhatt.com
Preorder CALL ME KIMBERLY: https://taliabhatt.com/#rcbg
Co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social, co-author of "Attack Dogs" with @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Read ATTACK DOGS: attackdogs.ju.mp
Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, child, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur. Disappointed with the internet since 1995.
Posts do not reflect views of my employer.
De Gruyter Brill Language, Literature & Culture @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts on books, journals and news by our editors.
Cain Miller @cainmiller.bsky.social PhD candidate in Cinema & Media Studies. Research focuses on gender and sexuality in horror. he/him/his
Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities.
🇦🇲🇲🇽 www.cyborglibrarian.com
Sudip @sudipupadhyay.bsky.social 
Bernadette Marie Calafell, PhD @bernadettecalafell.bsky.social The coolest chick you’ll (n)ever meet. Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.
(not the) Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudy.bsky.social The Unofficial Bluesky Account for SCMS
Pate Duncan @pateduncan.bsky.social PhD student in Film Studies at UW–Madison 🪤
Sophie @sophie-ahoi.bsky.social feminist and queer film nerd
member of feminist elsewheres
Media Burn Archive @mediaburn.bsky.social Media Burn is a nonprofit dedicated to video’s overlooked histories and its most fiercely independent voices, from the 1960s to today.
LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social The @baftss.bsky.social special interest group for LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies. Message us or email lgbtqscreenstudies@gmail.com
Kiah Bennett @offscreenphd.bsky.social big fan of the Bravo Televisual Universe.
PhD in media studies. Hollywood production cultures, media industries, TV, race, disability, + comedy. learning to sew, bake, and crochet.