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Michael Arias @michaelarias.net Award-winning filmmaker, director of “cult animé” TEKKONKINKREET 😬 映像ジャンルや国籍を超えてボーダレスに活躍し、映画『鉄コン筋クリート』で監督デビューを飾ったクリエイター😅 https://michaelarias.net
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Julia Kaye is evil @upandoutcomic.bsky.social Award-winning author of Super Late Bloomer & My Life In Transition • Story Artist • Snapdragon's VA on HGS • she • www.juliakaye.com • 18+ ⬇️ @curlyfluffnstuff.bsky.social
Partners and Son @partnersandson.bsky.social Comics and Art
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Maurice Vellekoop @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social Queer Toronto illustrator and cartoonist, he/him author of the graphic memoir, “I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together”
Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
BK Munn @bkmunn.bsky.social Grunk Magazine publisher, record shop owner, #booksincomics
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A.C. Esguerra @blueludebar.com comics artist + writer in LA. probably inkstained. EIGHTY DAYS (GLAAD nominated, YALSA listed). blueludebar.com
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Pat Aulisio @yeahdudecomics.bsky.social Comic artist and educator
Graham Kolbeins @grahamk.bsky.social Queer filmmaker/writer/artist. Friendly giant. (They/He)
Victoria, BC 🇨🇦 (unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən land)
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roopa vasudevan @rouxpz.bsky.social new media artist and researcher based between NYC and western massachusetts. faculty @ UMass Amherst art department. views my own. ✨ roopavasudevan.com
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Jessica Aguilar @aguilarjessica.bsky.social 🌺🇸🇻🌺
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social I make books sometimes. PRHPS-SQEX
Grace @bluehairdays.bsky.social Creator // Not sure what to do here yet?
michael @gaydog.neocities.org 🧚♂️🐶
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Dave Murray @thingsbydave.bsky.social Makes things, co-owns Hello Comics, is dad, plays games, proofreads manga.
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@brown-bananas.bsky.social @brown-bananas.bsky.social 
Steve Teare @steveteare.bsky.social I’m an illustrator based in NW Philly working on kid’s books, comics and more// Rep’d by Erica Rand Silverman at Stimola// https://www.steveteareillustration.com
TJW @shemynapqueen.bsky.social 
Juan William Chavez @jwchavez.bsky.social Juan William Chávez
Social Practice Artist
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Lisa Hanawalt @lisahanawalt.bsky.social Artist, writer, cartoonist
Tuca & Bertie, BoJack Horseman, Long Story Short
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) | Crips for eSims for Gaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
website: janeshi.org
Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com ➡️ Rebel scum. Disinvoltura.
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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
Erika Blumenfeld @erikablumenfeld.bsky.social Artist & Researcher exploring interconnections across our Earth & cosmos
Astromaterials 3D & AIVA Creative Lead at NASA
Guggenheim Fellow ‘08, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow ‘15, & Emerson Collective Climate Fellow ‘23
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Former NYorker🗽Current Canadian 🇨🇦
Past President GNCRT
she/her // opinions all me
Writing my PhD on comics censorship
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Matthew Colaizzo @uultramarinee.bsky.social 
Kirsti @kst.bsky.social Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
@stephaniebursese.bsky.social @stephaniebursese.bsky.social Artist 🕳️ Philadelphia
03-06 25 AIR Houston Center for Contemporary Craft & Houston Center for Photography
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Councilmember Jamie Gauthier @councilmemberjg.bsky.social Philadelphia City Councilmember fighting for equitable communities in West and Southwest Philadelphia and beyond.
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@brookeo.bsky.social @brookeo.bsky.social Block captain, against authoritarianism, loves the planet earth
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
helado negro @heladonegro.bsky.social 
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social Sandorf Passage co-founder and publisher
sandorfpassage.org
Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series
Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer 
@studioblanco.bsky.social @studioblanco.bsky.social 
Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social
bensears.bigcartel.com
thegleamingcorridor.bandcamp.com
Music Videos of Artists Doing Karaoke to Their Own Song @ownsongkaraoke.bsky.social 
trianglewavvve @trianglewavvve.bsky.social 
Cam Scott @vanishingsigns.bsky.social 
Jim Haku @jimhaku.bsky.social NJ
Sarah James @queserasera-sarah.bsky.social ceramics and printmaking, philadelphia for 3 decades but I’m still getting to know her.
https://www.sarahjameshandmade.com
Kaitlin Pomerantz @kkpkkp.bsky.social 
Sean Seamus McWhinny @seanseamus.bsky.social Cartoonist (Alta Journal), comics: “COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology” (Graphic Mundi), other comics anthologies, illustrator, queer, San Francisco
www.seanseamus.com
Rebecca Cordes Chan @rebeccachan.bsky.social 
Tyler Cohen @tylercohencomix.bsky.social cartoonist * educator * graphic designer * parent * queerdo * reader * over thinker * interdisciplinary * meandering mind * jew-ish * witchy * bisexual * seeker of groove * out to destroy binaries
Feather—Fieldmouse Press
Primahood: Magenta—Stacked Deck
Mike Parsell @maimerbb.bsky.social Music.. frail, deadbest, and le fits. Work.. GC for hire, focus on commercial build-outs. I can build you a restaurant efficiently if you want.
Germy Snorese @jeremysorese.bsky.social http://jeremysorese.com/
田亀源五郎 Gengoroh Tagame @gengorohtagame.bsky.social マンガ家、ゲイ・エロティック・アーティスト
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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.
If you have a style question, search:
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@kenschen.bsky.social @kenschen.bsky.social 
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
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📍Austin, TX
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
This is the only account . 👈 If I share something it doesn’t necessarily mean I agree
Founding board member
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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
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Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0