Rai Waddingham @raiwaddingham.bsky.social I have Lived Experience of (too) many things, am a survivor, creative, trainer, practitioner and researcher. Inspired by Open Dialogue and the Hearing Voices Movement.
Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com Professional tree enthusiast with a PhD about it.
Not being super professional here.
I make pride pins to fund my transition.
canopyrobin.com/links
(they/she)
Wren @jaunty-aphorism.bsky.social Sometimes there's no words. But silence is still talking | Autistic | Mad™ | Queer | She/They | #StopSIM #JusticeForZoe 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Emma Yapp @emmajyapp.bsky.social (They/them) Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. Interested in gendered violence, mental health, disability studies, and trauma
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Novara Media @novaramedia.com 📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Stan P. 🍉🏳️⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social (they/them) queer trans lived experience (broken) academic. Mental health, PPIE, labour, resistance.
Lauren @mental-health-harm.bsky.social Mad PhD student. Mental Health Research: Focusing on latrogenic Harm. #MadTwitter #ActuallyAutistic She/They
British Psychological Society @bpsofficial.bsky.social For over 120 years we’ve championed our members & psychology as a discipline. For customer support contact: info@bps.org.uk. Shares & ❤ not (always) endorsements.
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, & psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health & the body ∣ 'madness' & masculinity ∣ gender ∣ history of emotions ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid (she/her)
UK
Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social A six year international programme of disability, health and science. Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disability-matters
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social Disability trans and queer stuff.
Impatient crip/"bad vibes"
They/them
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
Kristina 🏳️⚧️🌙 @nightkristina.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS ✊
🩷 - @katie.x1labs.co.uk
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Photojournalist and short form content creator at @whatthetrans.com
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
WhatTheTrans.com
Navigation: #Podcast #Article #Opinion #Analysis #Interview #LiveReport #Protest #Action #Fundraiser #Research #Photography #UK #US #Japan #World
@david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social Disability, mental health, politics, technology.
Lisa Morriss @lisamorriss.bsky.social Academic @ School of Social Sciences Lancaster, PI Keeping Mothers in Mind. Interested in Hope, Motherhood, Mental Health, Futures, Ghosts, Archives, Loss, Tattoos
Eva Naprika @evanaprika.bsky.social Based in the UK.
Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com
Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social One of those @thedailytism.com gals. Truly evil. Suspected inauthentic behaviour. Head bee guy at It’s A Superpower?? Out now wherever you get podcasts!
She / Her
Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social Postdoc philosopher in social & political | mama to small people | disabled, chronically ill and audhd | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
linktr.ee/elizabethlovatt
Dr Doom(scrolling) @drews.bsky.social (they/them)
On the bad island but not leaving.
Academic, boulderer and cat dad.
Young people call me a trans elder but I'm literally just some guy.
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)
Dr Jessica Campbell @drjesscampbell.bsky.social Historian of Medicine 📚 Psychiatry, Madness, Mental Health, The Arts & Experience. Project Manager @HubMetPsych
Ahana (she/her) @antisanitygirl.bsky.social insane transsexual borderline bunnygirl, essayist, Mad studies, writes about the politics of trauma / ethics of distress, advocate for personality disorder liberation
my blog: https://tenderlyborderline.substack.com/
my kofi: https://ko-fi.com/ahana16698
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social focusing on disability, asylum, migration and wider social justice issues.
📕Disabling Migration Controls
➡️ https://bit.ly/DisMig 📕
https://disability-migration.org.uk/
https://sensing-climate.com/
Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social PhD candidate | Gender Studies, Stockholm University 🇸🇪 | Fulbright, Philosophy, Columbia University 19/20 🇺🇲 #recognitiontheory #phenomenology Researching gender and chronic illness
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social Senior lecturer, UCU branch secretary. Media, cultural studies, queer & gender things. Arts & crafts when I have time! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social Journalist. Podcast and documentary producer (‘Spacey Unmasked’, ‘White Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer’ and more). Occasional host/presenter.
Very much still in the closet. PatrickStrudwick@gmail.com
Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social PhD student studying neurodivergent culture and the neoliberal standard of ‘normal’ within universities. Neurodivergent, pan, sea enjoyer, lady-in-waiting to Astrid and Fin the cats. Belle and Sebastian fan, 6music Dad. Tangata Tiriti in-progress.
Cordelia Freeman @cordyf.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Exeter. Interested in abortion access in Latin America, border geopolitics, and representation. She/her.
Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social Autistic consultant and writer with a Masters in Neuroscience.
white, nonbinary. they/them Opinions are my own. #SayNoToABA
www.AutisticSciencePerson.com
Caroline Lenette @carolinelenette.bsky.social Professor of Anti-colonial research. Critical suicide studies, refugees, participatory arts-based methods.
New edited book: Anti-Colonial Research Praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177001/
Dr Sarah @sarahpsyc.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Tweets are not the views of my employers! Interested in attachment, trauma, staff wellbeing, compassionate leadership.
Upcoming:
🗼 BIGSPD in Blackpool - 16th to 18th June 2026
Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
Blogging at: lisadiedrich.org
Lisa The Riveter @lisatheriveter.bsky.social She/her. Bi. Textile queen. AFOL. PNW. Low vision/blind. Immune-suppressed. Chronically ill. Extremely sweary. Alt text for everyone! #alttext for my tutorials to learn how.
New here, long online.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. | http://signsjournal.org | Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/signsjournal
Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin (2026); Disability Injustice (2022); We Move Together (2021); Keywords for Radicals (2016).
BendyBrain : Dr Jessica Eccles @bendybrain.bsky.social #hypermobility (and related conditions) brain-body neuro #research @bsmsmedschool UK | Dr Jessica Eccles | http://Linktr.ee/bendybrain | views own | https://www.bsms.ac.uk/about/contact-us/staff/dr-jessica-eccles.aspx
SEDSConnective @sedsconnective.org The 1st charity for Hypermobility and Neurodivergence est.2018
Chair @JGjanegreenmbe.bsky.social
Patrons:
Dr Eccles Dr Spiritos
Web: www.sedsconnective.org
Link: https://linktr.ee/SEDSConnective
Laura Joyner @laurajoyner.bsky.social Research Fellow in Suicide Prevention Research at Middlesex | Cyberpsychology, Morality, Identity & Disinformation
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Una Foye @unafoye.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KCL working in mental health, eating disorders and inpatient care. All views my own (she/her)
Cassandra (Cas) Lovelock @drsoapsub.bsky.social Lecturer/Researcher | Knowledge equity & research methods, Unpaid care, state care and definitions of caring, Mental illness & neurodivergence, Poverty, capitalism & welfare
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@fleurperry.bsky.social @fleurperry.bsky.social
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social angry mast cells (HaT and #MCAS) + #POTS + neurodivergent. Disabled queer. white. emperor of typos. brain fog zone ⚠️. they/them
🎶 iii'm still masking 🎶
working on porting more of my body science infodumps and such to:
liminalnest.wordpress.com
#NEISvoid
Martin Locht Pedersen @martinpedersen.bsky.social Father, Army Veteran & Nurse | PhD Student at Forensic Mental Health Research Unit Middelfart, University of Southern Denmark & Region of Southern Denmark.
linktr.ee/martinlochtpedersen
Nikki Fox @nikkijfoxbbc.bsky.social BBC Health Correspondent for the East of England. https://muckrack.com/nikki-fox-2 nikki.fox@bbc.co.uk Mum. 4x RTS East Journalist of the Year. People, NHS, care, research. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c8x97l7gyy9t
Bindmans @bindmans.com Top ranked London law firm. Human rights and civil liberties, family and children law, immigration law, criminal litigation, public law, housing law, medical negligence, media and information law, international law and more.
www.bindmans.com
Hannah Bradby @bradby.bsky.social sociologist, writer, editor
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social Research Fellow at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.
Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social Spoonie. Mental health. CRPS. FMS. Long Covid. Social justice. Politics. Film. Books. Art and arts - I draw a lot, mostly faces. She/her
David Cochrane @dlgcochrane.bsky.social MBE. Forensic Mental Health Social Worker based in London. Interested in Safeguarding Adults and Children, Patient Safety/Human Factors Ergonomics, MAPPA, S37/41 MHA and Social Supervision
#forensicsocialwork
Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social London, UK. Sociologist at University of Exeter. Medical sociology; critical public health; academic publishing; methods, esp qualitative; mobility & transport; equity. Co-editor Journal of Critical Public Health. And here for random stuff.
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witch™
Ceramics artist based in London
www.roseschmits.com
she/her
Jane 🏊♀️🚴🏻🏃♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social Broken audhd mum of 3 autists and lazy triathlete - half iron, half jelly.
Cold water swimmer. Very amateur gardener. Beginner knitter.
Social justice warrior and autism advocate. "A fierce presence"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Femi Oyebode @femimind.bsky.social Psychiatrist & Poet. Loves Chekhov & Borges. www.femioyebode.com
Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Philosopher of technology. Disabled. Rotationplasty.
Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.
#PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec.
Francesca Brencio @ipazia76.bsky.social BA Hons Philosophy, PhD Philosophy and Human Sciences, BA Theology.
Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK)
Deputy Director of UG Studies in Psychology
Director of the PhenoLab.
APPA Counselor
Jenny Cooney-Quane @jennycooney.bsky.social Research Associate | Women's Health | Endo, Migraine, PMDD, POTS, MCAS
PhD Researcher | Psychoneuroimmunology
Biological & Health Psychology |School of Applied Psychology, UCC |
Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online web developer, writer, video maker, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
The Bristol Cable @thebristolcable.bsky.social Pioneering investigative local media co-op, owned by thousands of people in Bristol, UK 🗞️
Join and support us for as little as £1/mo: https://bit.ly/3Zzp5Xu
#KeepTheLightsOn 🔦
Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social 29 | disabled | influential; autistic advocate, published author, lactation consultant, TEDx Speaker, what’s next ? | Co-Founder @ Autistics Unmasked | they/them
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges.bsky.social Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/jlsmilges
Dr Abbie Jordan @drabbiejordan.bsky.social Paediatric pain researcher, health psychologist, mother and animal lover. All views my own.
FlowReady @flowready.bsky.social Empowering girls with knowledge & tools for #MenstruationMatters to reduce absenteeism & break links between menstruation, marriage, & childbearing readiness. #SRHR
#menarche #periodpoverty https://flowready.org/donate/
Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research project co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention. Based at the University of Edinburgh, University of Lincoln + Mind in Camden, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
🌐 https://discovering-liveability.ed.ac.uk/
Fiona Malpass @fionamalpass.bsky.social Work for Mind in Camden and other places too, like the NSPA and Discovering Liveability. Freelance trainer and speaker as well, with personal experience at the heart of everything I do. Sporadic social media user. Mainly dog tweets and sharing posts!
Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social DPAC is a grass roots campaign group
Email: mail@dpac.uk.net
Crips Against Cuts♿️🌻 @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social A Crip led grassroots group working Nationally to fight Government Cuts and reduce isolation through community.
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🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼
Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.
Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social Academic law person at King’s College London. Working on feminist, disability & gender things, also medical ethics. Held hostage by my beagle. All views my own & not peer reviewed.
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood @roisinryanflood.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex researching gender, sexuality, equality. Co-editor of the journal Sexualities. Feminist femme. 🏳️🌈She/her. New books: Queering Desire (2024); Consent (2023); and Difficult Conversations (2023)
Katie Munday @kmunday.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Researcher, Consultant, Human
https://autisticltd.co.uk/
They / he
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
Polly Maxwell @peamaxy.bsky.social Queer social researcher, writer, artist and overall queer human. Researching death, dying & queer kinship. PhD candidate at University of Bath. Wirral dweller.
(they/them)
British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social We publish rigorous, original research that speaks to a general sociological audience and draws on an array of quantitative and qualitative methods ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14684446
Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary global research collective. Uniting a Higher Education network of scholars and research students
Find out more: https://tvce.cargo.site
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social A not-for-profit scholarly press based at the University of Bristol. Home of Policy Press. Publishing on the global social challenges.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
CRIPtic Arts @cripticarts.bsky.social Creating an artistic landscape where disabled people flourish
cripticarts.org
Unlimited @weareunlimited.bsky.social We back disabled artists to create extraordinary work that is changing the arts.
Website: www.weareunlimited.org.uk/
Other social links: https://linktr.ee/weareunltd
Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social Philosopher of science and race. Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter. He/him
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
Kim Hoffmann @kimhoffmann.bsky.social PhD candidate @MPI CBS and @Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Interested in stress, depression, and the brain across the menstrual cycle
Wen (Women's Environmental Network) @wen-uk.bsky.social ✨We are an environmental charity working on issues that connect women, health, equity and environmental justice💫 #Environmenstrual 🩸 #FeministGreenNewDeal
Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
James Downs @jamesldowns.bsky.social Mental health writer, researcher, patient. Professionally & pathologically flexible. Creative arts. Practicing courage, creativity, and compassion.