🌸ayana🌸 @ayanajsk.bsky.social • Legislative Assistant
• Minneapolis DFL Chair
• Communications Director
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"People don't live their lives through statistics." - Zohran Mamdani
tom brandt @twbrandt.net PC(USA) elder, deacon. Retired software engineer. UMich grad. He/him. Jackal (IYKYK). Dearborn, MI. Technical Canadian. 🏳️🌈
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
The Karlie Chronicles @karliechronicles.bsky.social #UMC Seminary Graduate, in candidacy for ordination; Theology of Trauma/Ethics PhD to Be, She/Hers. UnCis.
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org Multi-Racial Working-Class Power Building | The Twin Cities chapter of Democratic Socialists of America | More at http://tcdsa.org
Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social The only independent news publication for the #PCUSA
Visit us at http://pres-outlook.org
God’s Little Ravioli 🏳️⚧️ @zoealicempls.bsky.social Hi, I’m Zoë, and I have done many things
37 🔞| Married | Minneapolis fan
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Cancel Me, Daddy Podcast @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social A podcast demystifying the panic around cancel culture. Thoughtful analysis & verbal shitposting from co-hosts @katelynburns.com and @yourombudsmom.bsky.social every other week.
Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social They/She 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Minnesotan 🩵💙
Shared 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Recipient with all my Twin Cities friends and neighbors
Coffee, Hugs, Equality.
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com Southside Senator, husband, father, renter, son of Somali immigrants, long-time advocate for working people. fatehfor62.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com Building a Minneapolis for the many, not the few. Join us at www.mplsforthemany.com
Aisha Chughtai @aishaforward10.com renter, former union organizer, eldest daughter to a Muslim immigrant family • socialist • representing Ward 10 on the Minneapolis City Council • she/her
John Edwards @johneapolis.bsky.social Wedge-based cat tour operator
DeWayne Davis @handle.invalid Reverend, advocate, former congressional staffer, and husband who believes in love, justice, and beloved community.
Candidate for Minneapolis Mayor.
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Homelessness is our societal failure. It's fixable if we really try. He/him/his
Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social I host Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi, The Classical Ideas Podcast, and like to ride my bike. I live in Buffalo and I'm from Missouri.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com local duckling with internet access
📍 minneapolis MN
Joanna Homrighausen, PhD @jdhomie.bsky.social Scholar of religion, sacred text, scribal craft, and lettering arts. PhD, Duke. Used to be The Saint John's Bible guy. Currently writing on Martin Wenham, Ben Shahn, and a host of other things.
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins (she/her) @katgelk.bsky.social editor at Fortress Press, scholar of ancient texts, reader of fun books, baker of baked goods.
Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social They pay brisk money for this crap?
MAKE ME BETTER and NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH on sale now
Hellraiser, Eat the Rich, Echo Wife, Spread Me @ your local bookstore and comic shop
Brandon Schorsch @bschorshy.bsky.social @Bschorshy on the Bird app
@Schorshy@union.place on the elephant app
OPEIU member, ☭ , ✡️, Fmr CD5DFL Chair, opinions own, rt≠endorsement, i often upvote for visibility
he/him
omnia sunt communia
Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social author of DISCIPLES OF WHITE JESUS March '25 | RED STATE CHRISTIANS '22 + '19 | https://angeladenker.substack.com | mom of 2 boys | censored columnist | Lutheran Pastor | Here for the Truth
Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Centre for the Study of Bible & Violence @csbibleviolence.bsky.social What does the Bible say about violence? We promote and facilitate scholarship around Bible & violence, and provide accessible resources for the global church.
https://www.csbvbristol.org.uk | https://linktr.ee/csbvbristol
Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author
Dabbles in time travel and vampires, Star Wars and Star Trek, novels and comics. Former NHL guy. Friend of dogs.
Next: The Photonic Effect, Star Wars: Low Red Moon
Mikechenwriter on all socials.
@lolobeansy.bsky.social @lolobeansy.bsky.social 
Lynne Gerber @thislynne.bsky.social Independent Scholar | Host, When We All Get to Heaven | Author, Seeking the Straight and Narrow | Writing on religion and AIDS in 80s and 90s San Francisco | #adoptee
The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social Award-winning magazine (and podcast) about religion, society, and media published by NYU's Center for Religion & Media. https://therevealer.org/
Brett Krutzsch @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social Editor of The Revealer | Author of Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs & the Transformation of American Sexual Politics | NYU | https://linktr.ee/brettkrutzsch
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social JIBS is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing cutting edge articles that embody interdisciplinary, social justice-oriented, feminist, queer, trans-inclusive and innovative biblical scholarship. Find us at https://jibs.hcommons.org/
Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social Early Christianity, Gender and Sexuality, Identity and Empire; Gay, Queer, He/him.
KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at UW-Madison | Religious Studies | Researching language, identity, & Islamic media in East Africa
May all beings find peace.
Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com I've written a few books, and I like to rant about gender and hyperlocal Minneapolis politics. Thorn in the side of the DFL: abetterdfl.org. Cat Dad. They/them.
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social An open book review site published by the American Academy of Religion (AARWeb). We provide up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies.
Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive
Website: christiancentury.org
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social he/him. invert, tf@g, jew
Heather M @hrmac.bsky.social Marketing manager for SBL Press, sci-fi geek who periodically speaks on religion and sci-fi at Dragoncon, retired archaeologist, and semiprofessional dog wrangler. All opinions are my own. She/her
Mayuri Patankar @mayuri3.bsky.social scholar/storyteller of indigenous religious traditions, social movements, and race. 
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social Classicist who works on agonistic things (tragedy, sports, drinking games), professor, enthusiast of sports and trash pop culture, feminist, dog owner
She/her
https://www.amypistone.com/
Joel Baden @joelbaden.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University.
Adam DJ Brett @adjb.co 🌲 International Research Associate @aila.social
📓 Associate editor @jcrt.org
🎓 Visiting Professor for Digital Humanities & Indigenous Studies
🍊 @syracuseu.bsky.social (PhD) alum
🕸️ www.adamdjbrett.com.
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Michael Lee, Ph.D he/him/his @authormglee.bsky.social Author of WHEN THE BAND PLAYED ON, THE LIFE OF RANDY SHILTS, AMERICA’S TRAILBLAZING GAY JOURNALIST. 2025 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Minneapolis MN. www.AuthorMGLee.com 🏳️🌈
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Teri McDowell Ott @terimott.bsky.social Editor / Publisher of the Presbyterian Outlook; Mom of teens, wife of academic
Judy Stack @judystack.bsky.social I interpret texts, some of which are written. Fascinated by beauty, God, and people. Trying to connect those things in a way that does some good in the world.
Rhiannon Graybill @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social I’m interested in feminist and queer responses to biblical sexual violence.
Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast (he/they)
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her.
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture, Lund University. Biblical reception obsessive.
jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social 💙📚 ReligionNerd; Libraries
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks ~Sayers
🏳️🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️⚧️.
End the warcrimes. Open borders. End Prisons. Eat the Rich.
Terence (he/they) ✊🏾🤙🏾🌈🦬 @braveeducator1906.bsky.social Black Queer Transdisciplinary Scholar, Educator, and Co-Conspirator #1906 #balwinite #africana
Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social Writer: Lit Nonfic—publish or represent me!
Journalist: Abortions—help me fund them!
Co-founder: @theflytrapmedia.com
Podcast: @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social
Parent: 👧🏼 and 🐰
Mother: Fucker
Media: Don
https://linktr.ee/yourombudsmom
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social Helping religion scholars communicate with the public since 2018.
www.sacred-writes.org
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Brian Fiu Kolia @bkolia.bsky.social #FreeWestPapua #FreePalestine #FreeKanaky #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
#BlackLivesMatter #ClimateAction #Treaty 🖤💛❤ | PhD Hebrew Bible | he/him | husband & father | author | lecturer Malua Theological College, Sāmoa.
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Rebekah M. Devine @rebekahmdevine.bsky.social Rebekah M. Devine is a white, queer writer born and raised in the suburbs of New Jersey. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hunger Journal and Rust and Moth, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi Univ for Women.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Torrey Peters @torreypeters.bsky.social On social media hiatus! For contact info check my website torreypeters.com
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Amanda Smith Miller @fiercewisdom.bsky.social Mama, professor, minister, spouse. Actively love God and ALL your neighbors, and remember that you are worthy and you are enough! she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤎🖤
Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social Representing Minnesota's 5th District in the People's House.
US Progressives Deputy Chair.
Account managed by staff.
Sara Logan @seven-ravens-sara.bsky.social queer. Episcopalian. Waldorf teacher. storyteller (sometimes). living in the rapidly thawing frozen north.
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Moon Palace Books @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social more books than before
Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
TransLash Media @translash.org We tell trans stories to save trans lives. 
Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social Journalist and CEO of TransLash Media. Time100 Honoree. Holding up the light so we can face what’s ahead.
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Patrick Burrows @lpburrows.bsky.social Theology, ethics, queer studies, Dolly Parton | North Carolinian | GDTBATH, YNWA | he/him
Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social Minnesota rep, matka, art person, tree person.
she//her
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️| Freelance Journalist for hire | she/her | Once, the Olympics in RJ + ATL | Bylines all over; the Mets break me | Sydneyerinwrites at gmail dot com
Discord: sydneybauer
Signal: SydneyBauer.30
www.sydney-bauer.com
@fsrinc.bsky.social @fsrinc.bsky.social 
Guy Nave @guynave.bsky.social College professor, aspiring public intellectual, advocate for change, ever-evolving and changing human being
Mark S Medley @marksmedley.bsky.social Professor of Theology ; Academic Dean; theological educator; reader; golfer; U2 fan; Tar Heel. Always enjoy discussing theology.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Jonathan Quinn (they/them) @jmquinn.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿️ AKA Rhea Billy Tatum. Drag queen, Episcopalian (and aspirant to the priesthood), theologian, comedian.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Dr. Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social PhD Hebrew Bible, newly minted
Scholar of race, class and gender
Anarchist
Any pronouns
Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com Writer, historian, cosplayer, Vermonter. Author of Cosplay: A History.
Newsletter: https://www.andrewliptak.com
tedna @tedna.bsky.social Pretty much what it says on the tin. I like bowties, educating people about diabetes, nerdy stuff (LOTR, WOT, Witcher, etc), public health, and history. Trans rights are suicide prevention and human rights. He/they. 18+ MDNI. 20 something
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Emily Gathergood @emilygathergood.bsky.social New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK. 
Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social Award-winning SFF author of THE LESSON and NO GODS, NO MONSTERS, founder/member of Many Worlds. 1/5th of Darkly Lem.
Journal of Gods and Monsters @jgodsmonsters.bsky.social The Journal of Gods and Monsters is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that seeks to explore the connections between the sacred and the monstrous. Find us at https://godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonsters/
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
emily ann @emilisha.bsky.social queer, brown, autistic, polyam, artist, facilitator, thrift shop hero, cat snuggler, in a nutshell.- C @caromalinia.bsky.social @caromalinia.bsky.social