Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Cat MacLean @catmx.bsky.social Policy Advisor, @goodlawproject.org, formerly @clientearth.bsky.social
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: Observer, BBC, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
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https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Valeria Rocca @vrocca.bsky.social Investigative journalist | @Vice @Bittercreek @BylineTimes @TBIJ @brazenFM @NovelPodcasts @BBC @WonderyMedia and more | BJA 2024 finalist
Press Recognition Panel (PRP) @prpanel.bsky.social The independent body set up following the Leveson Inquiry to ensure regulators of the press and news publishers are able to protect the public.
jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social Elf Princess: feminist, journalist, campaigner on political and sexual liberty: also IT, law and policing. Content may contain spoof!
She/her. Also fae/faer
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social @trustfnd.com cofounder and ceo • board @republik.ch • past: Twitter, FT, SRF, NZZ • he/him • 🏳️🌈🇨🇭🇪🇺🇱🇧 • Berlin • https://trustfnd.com
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
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David Tovar @davidtovarart.bsky.social 
Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social Human rights geek | 'might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' |
Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social journalist, producer on the science/tech/society | news preservation nerd | mastering info sci @UW | words & vids in MoJo, 5280, WashBlade, Quanta, Inkstick + | henrycarnell.com 🏳️⚧️🌲💻 in Oregon
sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social freelance investigative journalist, 2024 British Journalism Awards shortlist
fact-checker & subeditor @tbij.bsky.social
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana @lexiekk.bsky.social At the helm in high seas @impressorg.bsky.social
🌐 bridging media, tech, law & public interest.
📍 current hyper fixation: soup, now we are in the 'ber' months
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Cristiana Bedei @cristianabedei.bsky.social Freelance Journalist | Giornalista freelance
Founder @ Senza Redazione (la piattaforma per freelance dell'informazione e comunicazione in Italia)
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Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social Children’s author, mediocre footballer, internet transgender || he/him #COYG
Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir @uglastefania.bsky.social ✒️ Feminist Writer
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat Cat furniture, cool auntie, and algorithmic witch. Digital rights, and IP law.
Personal account and talks about everything. I usually follow back if you reply or like my post.
Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social Truth, justice, accountability, saving lives
7,000 bereaved families
Creators of the Covid Memorial Wall
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Yasmin Benoit, MSc @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social British Model & Award-Winning Asexual Activist
Founder of the UK's first asexual rights initiative
Creator of #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike
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David Paisley @davidpaisley.net Scottish, theatre loving, queer, gym rat 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social Weirdo who doesn't want the world to burn.
Author Straight Jacket 'an essential read for every gay person on the planet' Elton John.
Xavier White @rockxaviergb.bsky.social 👱🏼♂️🇬🇧
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com PhD Researcher in Transgender Archaeology at the Uni of York. Former Mayor of Bangor, Author, Activist, Board Gamer, Welsh, Queer, Non-Binary (they/nhw)
linus karp @linuskarp.bsky.social i love my children gwyneth goes skiing, Fit Prince and diana: the untold and untrue story. He/him
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social Ex-psychiatrist, writer, campaigner. Trans ally. She/ her. Author ‘HER NAME IS ALICE’ on the life and death of my transgender child. Mudlark Books Harper Collins. https://www.carolinelitman.com/her-name-is-alice-1
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com Host of YouTube.com/SarahOConnellShow - Subscribe! Comedian • Celebrity Interviews • Film Critic • Actress BAFTA Connect member • Artist • Animator • IG/FB/Threads/TikTok: SarahOConnellShow
Ludovic Parsons @ludovicparsons.bsky.social 🗞️ Queer British journalist
🕵🏻♂️ Investigations @wearequeeraf.com
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Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social 📍London, England.
35. Sierra Leonean. He/him.
Social activist. Health promoter. Writer. Researcher.
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NicKeaney @nickeaney.bsky.social Audience & Content Director
Prev: @Twitter @ITN @Dataminr @SkyNews #OSINT | #AI | 🌈 | She/Her
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social Shamelessly HIV+ actor, writer, public speaker based in London.
Former CEO of aidsmap and Gay Men Fighting AIDS.
He/him. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🌍🌱
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Sophie Perry 🌈 @sophieperryportfolio.com Former Senior News Reporter at PinkNews | PhD Researcher at City St George's, University of London | Founder of the LGBTQ+ Journalism Network | Top 100 Future Leaders 2023 | Big fan of dinosaurs | she/her
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Helen Belcher @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social Former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate, current Lib Dem councillor, head of TransActual, Leveson witness, former company founder, looking for a quieter life.
A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social They / Them
Just a lawyer, cross about injustice and the world burning. Typos, terrible jokes, and pointing out the law. Anon as thoughts my own.
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
https://www.transactual.org.uk/
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world I write and I co-founded TransWrites.world / @TransWrites.world to platform trans voices around the world. I'd say we're not doing so bad at it so far.
InterMediaUK 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @intermediauk.co.uk 
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
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Mathilda Mallinson @mathildamall.bsky.social Middle East Eye Journalist. I write columns & record podcasts critiquing news and platforming the voices missing from the mainstream. Can talk all things immigration.
📝 @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🎙️Media Storm podcast
Sam Parker @samparker.bsky.social Author of Good Anger: How Rethinking Rage Can Change Our Lives, out with Bloomsbury now. Digital Director of British GQ.
Louis Staples @louisstaples.bsky.social Journalist: The Guardian, New York Times, NYMag, BBC, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone.
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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com Writer, artist, campaigner & creative cultural strategist.
Founder @transhistoryweek.com
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Columnist for Campaign.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
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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 🏳️🌈
Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Media Reform Coalition @mediareformuk.bsky.social Campaign for a more independent, accountable & democratic media, where diversity, ethical journalism & public good come before the private gain of a few media moguls.
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Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social Journalist and CEO of TransLash Media. Time100 Honoree. Holding up the light so we can face what’s ahead.
Dee Whitnell (they/them) @s3xtheorywithdee.bsky.social 🩷 Multi Award-winning Sx Educator
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
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National AIDS Trust @nat.org.uk We’re the UK’s #HIV rights charity. We work to stop HIV from standing in the way of health, dignity and equality, and to end new HIV transmissions.
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Kyle Taylor @kyletaylor.bsky.social Author, activist, digital rights and social media expert. 
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Joshua @busybeingblack.com Creator, curator and host of Busy Being Black. Writer, poet, creative alchemist.
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Matilda Davies @matildakdavies.bsky.social Data Journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times | Views my own | Send tips + data to matilda.davies@thetimes.co.uk | She/Her 🏳️🌈
https://github.com/MatildaDavies
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
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LGBT+ History Month UK @lgbthm.bsky.social LGBT+ History Month UK, which takes place in February each year, was founded by @SchoolsOUTUK.bsky.social in 2004, and was first celebrated in 2005. The 2026 theme was Science and innovation.
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London, UK
LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️🌈 // a gay boy // 🏉 @Harlequins season ticket // ⚽ @LFC // vice chair & comms lead @QuinsPride 🏉🃏 // he/him
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. https://linktr.ee/transjournalists
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Jem Collins @jemcollins.co.uk Editor of Journo Resources, but probably swimming. She/her. 🏳️🌈
NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social LGBTQ+ journalists and communicators on a mission to improve coverage.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Divina de Campo @divinadecampo.bsky.social Drag celeb init
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social Trans people should expect no fair treatment or justice in the UK - the 22nd safest country in Europe to be LGBT. Biological Female 🏳️⚧️ Anti Free Speech.
Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network https://transsafety.network/
Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK.
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Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social Passionate about acceptance for #transgender people & #trans kids 🏳️⚧️ equality & saving our planet 🌍 Inclusive cis feminist ⚧
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