Politics and Rights Review @polrightsrev.bsky.social A trilingual, open-access journal making recent research in human and social sciences accessible to a global audience. Visit us at: https://politicsrights.com
Karel J. Leyva @kareljleyva.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief (https://politicsrights.com/ ; @polrightsrev.bsky.social). Dedicated to connecting the social sciences and humanities with broader audiences, promoting critical dialogue, and addressing today’s most pressing challenges.
Jasmine Fledderjohann @jfledderjohann.bsky.social Prof in Sociology & Social Justice. Research food, gender, repro justice, digital inequities. She/her. Former ALS/MND carer. Projects: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/foodequity & http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/digi. Usual disclaimers.
Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Leipzig University
Website: https://t.co/geLbfdA9CE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthropology_unileipzig/
Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social علي کا ملنگ؛ intellectual historian; global; decolonial; foodie
Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social I spend a lot of time talking, writing, and teaching about LGBTQ history, identities, and communities. Ask me about Dead Lesbian Syndrome.
Socrates Stamatatos @socratesstamatatos.bsky.social currently trapped inside the poolrooms 🏊🏻
💕curator 💕transdisciplinary artist
Richa Karmarkar @richakarma.bsky.social Reporter @ Religion News Service
Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social Feminist lesbian asking queer questions about peace & security | Lecturer at Uni. of Manchester | Jamiejhagen.com | picturesofbirds.tumblr.com/
Queering Women, Peace and Security out now with Oxford University Press http://bit.ly/45NJMBJ
Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social Lecturer/Assistant Prof in Gender, Women’s Studies & Philosophy at UCC. Posthumanities Hub, Eco- & Bioart Lab & Posthumanism Research Institute affiliate. PhD UC Santa Cruz.🦄
https://linktr.ee/egeerts
Meme queen, cat crazy & neurospicy. She/they.
The Publishing Triangle @publishingtriangle.bsky.social The Publishing Triangle is an association of LGBTQ+ writers, editors, and publishers that celebrates queer literature. Established in 1988, it offers awards, resources, and community for those dedicated to LGBTQ+ stories. https://publishingtriangle.org/
Emanuel Xavier @emanuelxavier.bsky.social Poet, author, and LGBTQ+ activist. Exploring identity, resilience, and survival through storytelling and art.
Miranda Joseph @mirandadj.bsky.social 💻 UMN GWSS & American Studies
📚 Author of Against the Romance of Community and Debt to Society
🌲 Stanford MTL PhD
Chad Shomura @hellochadcat.bsky.social Robot cephalopod failing to be human • Political theorist • Ethnic studies prof
Yannick Blec @yannickblec.bsky.social On subjects that matter to me | Ph.D. - Research focuses on African American LGBTQ+ Identities & reprentations thereof in popular cultures | He/him/his - Il/lui
https://blecyannick.com
Victoria Hesford @vhesford.bsky.social Feminist academic. Reader and writer on American queer and feminist culture and politics in the 1970s. Women's sports fan. Manchester is Red.
clara kaul @clarakay.bsky.social cultural studies phd student & uaw 4811 head steward @ uc davis 🕯️studying empire, militarism, and sex ⏳free palestine 🇵🇸
Cody Daigle-Orians @dadstoyevsky.bsky.social Writer and queer sexualities educator. educator. Also: Books. Horror. Hockey Theatre.
Carrie Anne Drazewski-Keller @carrieannemonster.bsky.social Anthropologist - Creative Development
Los Angeles, CA
Violent Minds: Killers on Tape
Co-host CrimeJuicy #podcast
#anthropology #truecrime #structuralviolence #documentary #serialkiller #archaeology #violentminds on #oxygen #peacock #muse
Graydon Smith @graydonsmith.bsky.social Canadian visual anthropologist, Photography and Arts, (Santiago de) Cuba, Futures, 🏳️🌈
Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. 
Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social Asst prof at U Illinois working on contemporary global South literature, environmental humanities, imagined states, lit and politics, utopia, apocalypse, genre, infrastructure
Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social PhD student at McMaster studying anthropology, trans sport, queer issues, polyamory, kinship, anthropology of the state. All pronouns.
www.victoriaclowater.com
Participate in my PhD research: https://surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/index.php/137721?lang=en
Ryan Davey @ryandavey284.bsky.social Anthropologist | Out now: The Personal Life of Debt: Coercion, Subjectivity & Inequality in Britain (Bristol Uni Press). https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-personal-life-of-debt. Teach social sciences at Cardiff Uni. @RyanDavey284 on twitter.
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
panke.gallery @pankegallery.bsky.social https://panke.gallery ➠ a dialogue between established & emerging artists dealing with digital & net-based art · /rosa project space in collaboration with @zfn.bsky.social
Preeti Padmini Gamzeh @preescribe.bsky.social Print and Radio/Podcast Journalist & Storyteller
Feminism. Anti-Caste. Science. Sufi Poetry. Filter kapi.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang @fkwang.bsky.social Asian American journalist, essayist, poet, scholar focused on issues of race and justice. Book “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids” Wayne State Univ Press 2022. Personal.
Lena gross @lenamgr.bsky.social They/them. Tired. Social scientist working on land rights, climate change, queer and Indigenous methodologies, epistemic injustice, gender and colonialism.
Sebastián Córdoba @scordoban.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in (Queer) Psychology.
Gender, sexuality, language, and identity | Bogotá - LA - NYC - London | Research with queer Latin Americans in London | sebastian-cordoba.com | él/he
Anjali Arondekar @anjaliarondekar.bsky.social Sexuality-Caste-Archives. Federer4eva
http://anjaliarondekar.sites.ucsc.edu/
Shayna Goldsmith @shaynag.bsky.social urban planning phd candidate at UT Austin. transportation policy, planning law, & history. podcast junkie. craft-monger. e-bike rider.
Areti-Kristin Bouras @areti.bsky.social she/her | Sociology @ Göttingen University
Farrah Fazal @farrahfazal.bsky.social 📺Doc Producer/Director | EP
🎤Journalist: former war correspondent, fascism, race, politics, disinfo, extremism, cults, immigration, US-MX border
♥️Radical Love
🕊️”Truthful not neutral”
🌍US| AFRICA|UK|CAN|MIDDLE EAST
✊🏽SAG-AFTRA | 9 EMMYS
🦠Lyme warrior
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social Be gay do crime | on Gadigal land (Sydney)
Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Literature, Stevens Institute of Technology | PhD @nyu.edu | CLAGS
📚: Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (2020) | Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (2024)
Tim Gitzen @timgitzen.bsky.social assistant prof in anthropology; talk to me about microbes, sts, environmental studies, queer studies
He/They 🏳️🌈
new book: unscripting the present (SUNY Press)
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places.
Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023).
he/him.
Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social Professor & scholar of peace, human rights, migration & education
University of San Francisco
(views posted here are my own)
Debut picture book A YEAR OF KITES out in 2026 with Bloomsbury
www.monishabajaj.net
Pronouns: she/her/वह
Angad Singh @angadgsingh.bsky.social Sikh-American Emmy winning documentary filmmaker and journalist, covering the empire, the rebellion, and the diaspora.
Still banned in India ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- N Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social Poetry: The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024); After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022); Life and Times of Mr. S (2012); Universal Beach (2006). I teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at George Mason University.
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
tkarlekar @densestuff.bsky.social Global film and media scholar; writing coach and editor at OneLitPlace; always in between
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Amitha Jagannath Knight @amitha.bsky.social Award-winning author and poet, identical twin, parent, MD (not practicing). Also: guitar, piano, bharatanatyam student. Boston area, MA, USA.
Rep: @karisutherland.bsky.social
www.amithaknight.com
She/her
Usha Raman @usharaman.bsky.social Writer and academic; study and teach media, dabble in fiction and poetry. Just published my first novel.
Martin C @martincrumley.bsky.social Films, comics, music, books, politics. And sport!
🏴 🇬🇷
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Natalia VN @doctamaga.bsky.social Asst Profa. Chicanx/Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies| Author of The True Colors of Feeling Brown https://tidd.ly/4eHv3w6
|Chilanga lost in a falling empire| 😺 person| Opinions my own in English & Español
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Scott Long @scottlong1980.bsky.social He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social Writer, socialist, climate activist. Blogs at annebonnypirate.org w/ Nancy Lindisfarne. Author of "Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality" & "Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs". Historian, anthropologist.
Shabby Tigers @shabbytigers.bsky.social Biopharma storyteller/strategist, NYC➡️Berlin. Bodily autonomy, urbanism, shiny things generally. Would know yet more.
Simon Fern @simonfern.bsky.social Sociology PhD - writing on immigrant health/medical experiences in Spain. Also, collaborative work on food apartheid in the American south.
#migration studies, Medicine, #reproduction, care, #STS, #embodiment, coloniality, ANT.
Carlos Hernandez @carloshernandezstu.bsky.social They/He | NYC Based Artist, Curator, and Writer thinking through Afro-Latinx Caribbean American Futurisms. Tristemente Dominicoestadunidense
Carloshernandezstudios.com
#photo #curation #latinxstudies #queerstudies #culturalanthropology
Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social Music researcher focussed on South Asia, musical emotion/affect, moral emotion, music & Islam. Open Research Library Assistant at LSE. AFHEA, he/him. PhD thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15586/
Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/ 
max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com
"Aber dennoch hat sich Bolle janz köstlich amüsiert."
🦩 https://maxkoss.com/about/
🦩 https://www.instagram.com/hot_pink_flamingo
Berlin, Germany, Europe, World. Personal account. GDR born. @ 341.48 ppm. Reskeets are no endorsements. Skeets in GER/ENG.
Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social Assoc Prof (docent) @UU_University. Author of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta @uwapress. PhD SOAS/Bbk. MSc @LSE. MA@EdinburghUni.
Development, climate change, toxicity.
Elisabeth Luggauer @ellug.bsky.social multispecies anthropologist @HumboldtUni Berlin: urban spaces; heat; trees; (more than human) climate justice; southeastern Europe; she/sie
Nadia Bellardi @ms-chameleon.bsky.social PhD researcher in Social Anthropology @unibasel.bsky.social
Intercultural communication, media & activism, sometimes cats.
Ifra @ifra-j.bsky.social PhD student @ Northwestern U | interested in digital queer counterpublics, transnational queer publics, and more | either making food or art
Shafaq @shafaqsohail.bsky.social Anthropology at UT Austin
Ian Liujia Tian @ianliujiatian.bsky.social Queer marxism and other historical materialism tendencies. X survivor, Assistant pro of WGS, Mount Saint Vincent University, Mi'kmaq Nation.
C. James Law @doclaw.bsky.social Religious studies scholar with a wide range of interests, including but not limited to - civil religion, memorialization, gender, and sexuality
Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social Researcher of modern Chinese literature and culture. Feminist theory, political-economic thought, film and theater.
Postdoc at the University of Göttingen.
不辣不革命
🍉🍉🍉
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Marjo Kolehmainen @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @utu.fi, PI: Networked Care: Intimate Matters in Online Mental Health Support (2023-2027). Editor at The Sociological Review.
https://www.marjokolehmainen.net/
Jay Spencer Green @jayspencergreen.bsky.social “Everything went downhill after the invention of the wheel.”
Dublin-based writer, Dadaist, and layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
David Pearson @dj-pearson.bsky.social Librarian at SOAS Library
Anthropology, Linguistics, Migration, Food Studies, Teaching, HEIs
https://soas.libguides.com/
Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social Associate Professor at Northumbria University | Studies cultures of scenography, climate crisis, & transness | AHRC PI for Trans Performance Now | Author: #BeyondScenography | Co-founder: Critical Costume | Loves cats & cosplay
rachelhann.com
Omri Elisha @omrielisha.bsky.social Anthropologist of religion at Queens College/The Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of Moral Ambition: Mobilization & Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches (2011)
Currently thinking about astrology, spirituality, and historical consciousness. 
Chris Smith @cmsmithsoc.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto | researches gender, crime, cities, violence, and networks | she/her first gen 🏳️🌈
http://chrismsmithsociology.wordpress.com
Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, South Asia, Queerness, Translation, Caste and Spirituality.
Santa Cruz, CA/ India
SALT Chicago summer school
Carolyn Jackson @carolynjackson.bsky.social Professor of Gender and Education at Lancaster University, UK. Works on gender-related violence in higher education, 'lad culture', gender and learner identities, fear in education. 
Andrew McCartan @queerdrew.bsky.social Critical Human Geographer, he/him
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Professor, probably thinking about emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Marlene Spanger @spanger.bsky.social Associate Professor at Aalborg University researching migration, labour, gender, and racialisation
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Alfonso Ayala III @proudmaricon.bsky.social Queer sober Chicana/o/x identity, desire, & spirituality | storytelling & autoethnography | embodied memory | Ph.D'ing @ Univeristy of Texas, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
http://alfonsoayala8.wixsite.com/queer
Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social Sanskrit, Japanese and Classical Chinese • Writer • Editor Gwyllion Magazine • They/them • ☭ • Fandom account over at @azemwu.bsky.social
Not interested in becoming a brand, here simply for community and authenticity.
Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
lazz kinnamon @lazz.bsky.social interdisciplinary studies prof. at University of Arizona
working on trans and queer reappraisals of 20th century feminisms, the significance of Consciousness Raising, and feminist marxisms.
Julia Pauli @juliaanthro.bsky.social Anthropologist at University of Hamburg
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social Associate Professor, London School of Economics| Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow| Labour & Coop Party Councillor| Chair of Council & First Citizen, London Borough of Newham 25-26| He/They| https://linktr.ee/rohitkdasgupta
Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD @profmarycollier.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / husky mom
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Eline Huygens @elinehuygens.bsky.social Researching gender, religion, and intimate life | Managing editor Religion and Gender
Cüneyt Çakırlar @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Visual Culture @ Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Rieke Schröder @riekeschroeder.bsky.social (she/her) Queer & feminist perspectives on forced displacement. Doing a PostDoc at the Institute for Political Science @uni-muenster.de