The Drift @thedriftmag.com A magazine of culture and politics
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Imo @poetr-imi.bsky.social Poet | 24 | "A King’s Bones" (2022) published with Vole books. Disabled Poets Prize 2025, 2nd place for Best Single Poem.
https://bio.site/imogenmchugh
HSD + POTS + chronic fatigue + scoliosis + more!
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social writer, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival ,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. seen a lot, still doing the rest. brownstargirl.org
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social Green MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2024. Elected to challenge Labour in power at all levels of Govt since 2014. She/her. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party at PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
the white pube @thewhitepube.bsky.social Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad write about culture @
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🍋📚 our book POOR ARTISTS is out now all across the world basically
Mary-Beth 🐝 @birderbee.bsky.social Personal account • Mostly bees, local birding & my experience of breast cancer in my 30s • Environmental Science mature student with the OU • Views & photos my own • Enthusiast, not expert! • Leeds, West Yorkshire 📷 instagram.com/birder_bee #WomenInSTEM
Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
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Hannah - OT in Deaf mental health @hannahtheot.bsky.social NHS Occupational Therapist in Deaf mental health👋🏻 / she/her / BSL Level 6 🫶🏻/ hearing/ Disabled / Views my own 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Hannah Daisy @makedaisychains.bsky.social That #BoringSelfCare person from the other place
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social The radical mental health magazine. Been around since 1986. Distributed by PCCS Books Sharing does not equal endorsement.
Email: editors@asylummagazine.org
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Candice Alaska @candicealaska.bsky.social Exploring the intersections of sanism and survivor injustice. ❤️🔥
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IG: @candicealaska
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RestFest Film Festival @restfestfilmfest.bsky.social a virtual film/video festival & arts gathering space
📹 by/for Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill and/or mad community
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social recoveryinthebin.org
A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
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HEXENTEXTE @hexentexte.bsky.social image, text & the body
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
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Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Meduse @queerzero.bsky.social Psychotherapist • Artist
Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social Poet, editor, author of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Rowan Spray @rowanspray.bsky.social Botanical Fine Art Photographer London UK www.rowanspray.com
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
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Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Family Wellbeing Research Team @ Uni of York, UK. Perinatal mental health, loneliness, and addressing the social determinants of mental illness. Mum + lover of the outdoors. Views my own. http://lonelyparents.org
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist
Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children
Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities
Language Matters
Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social Yorkshire based printmaker, tarot nerd, mad person and carer, passionate about disability rights, BSL and mad/crip/MMIND culture.
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The Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social 📣Leading Conversations About #CSA Through Survivor-Led Training, Campaigning & Support
🌸Sophie Olson: Founder/activist/writer
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Esther Fox @appleyardfox.bsky.social Passionate about Museums and Galleries; particularly in making them more porous and representative of the diverse and vibrant communities they serve. Currently leading Screen South's Accentuate programme, heading up ACE funded Curating Visibility.
Accentuate_Curating Visibility @accentuateuk.bsky.social Accentuate, a pioneering programme by Screen South, creates and delivers projects that break new ground for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in the cultural sector.
https://curatingforchange.org/
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Unlimited @weareunlimited.bsky.social We back disabled artists to create extraordinary work that is changing the arts.
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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social 📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Rue Collinge @thewordtinker.bsky.social Disabled poet & community artist. North East. Writing about hope with dragons in it, and hEDS. Pre-order debut pamphlet with Verve Poetry Press! linktr.ee/thewordtinker
Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social Creative Project Manager by day, writer by night. Advocate for the power of community and the arts. Big fan of sunsets!
Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Theatre goer, Music lover, Irishwoman abroad she/her
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
CRIPtic Arts @cripticarts.bsky.social Creating an artistic landscape where disabled people flourish
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London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social Opening doors to great storytelling. Founded in 1995 as Spread the Word, now London Writers Centre.
The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
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Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social Creating a lived experience-led mental health justice movement to fight harmful systems and build better alternatives. Become a member via our website: https://linktr.ee/NationalSurvivorUserNetwork
Jessica Turtle @jessicaturtle.bsky.social Director, Museum of Homelessness
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Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups @intsl-nd-dis-rgs.bsky.social Since 2019! The rest of 2026: the Cripping Methodology RG. Most 3rd Fri/mo, start 3pm UK. Link: https://intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site. Host/org: @drdyidhuijg.bsky.social
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
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Deborah Lam @deborahlam.bsky.social Non-English Lecturer in English @UoBrisEnglish | art historian in literary critic’s clothing | Art and literature in the overlong 19c
Jon Sleigh @jonsleigh.bsky.social Arts Educator & Learning Curator working nationally freelance. All views my own. (he/him) Author of ‘What Are Museums For?’ book link https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-are-museums-for
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
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Dr Nathan Walker (they / them) @nthnwlkr.bsky.social Cumbrian Performance Artist & Writer ➵ Course Lead for BA Fine Art @ York St John University ➵ Ⓐ ➵ They / Them
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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social The journal of experimental poetics.
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A place for prose that listens as much as it speaks.
Based in Nottingham, UK, with a global readership.
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social Lecturer & ‘troubled teen industry' survivor-researcher. Mad Studies - Critical Disability Studies - Social Work. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/golightleysarahdr/
The Common Press Bookshop @thecommonpress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social author of Solidarity with Children, Comedy Against Work, Fag/Hag
editor of The Return of the 90s
M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
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nat raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social poet & activist-scholar
📚 Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds @plutopress.bsky.social
📚 apparitions (nines), Nightboat Books
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Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Club Des Femmes @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social We are a queer feminist collective who curate film screenings & events. Happenings & new writing 👉 www.clubdesfemmes.com
Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social Psychologist; SEEK Safely board president; marathoner. Realistic, sustainable trauma & addiction recovery.
One day at a time.
new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social new words {press} is dedicated to the elevation of trans & gender-expansive voices. our focus is poetry, experimental poetry, & hybrid work. we publish a journal, chapbooks, books, & special projects.
Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Queer poetry publisher!
💫 anthologies 3x year
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📚 pamphlets from emerging writers
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social Writer, poet and guinea pig fosterer. These Mortal Bodies, my debut about sisterhood, girlhood and obsession, is out now with Simon and Schuster 🦇.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
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Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social We are a charity in South West England using words and stories to support creativity and wellbeing. We connect people and communities, nurture talent, and champion the power of storytelling, writing and reading. 📖
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College
Scholar of feminist/queer screen media
Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum
IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner
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mariasanfilippo.net
David O'Flynn @docdof.bsky.social Psychiatrist & Curator
London
Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
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Tom Goyens @tomgoyens.bsky.social Professor of History, Salisbury Univ | Anarchism | Author of "Beer and Revolution" & "Johann Most" | Belgian beer lover
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social British Writer, speaker, artist, filmmaker, working class, queer, interested in disability & the madness that is given to us by the world. She/They
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Dr Simon Crosbie @simon-books-art.bsky.social PhD: 'Trauma, dissociation and the boarding school experience'. Interested in art and psychoanalysis, trauma studies, art history, and cemeteries. Survivor of institutional abuse. No DMs. Opinions are my own.
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