LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
DCS Heritage @dcs-heritage.bsky.social Passionate about the heritage sector, data & engagement specialist, & museum volunteer 🎭💻🏛️ https://dcs-heritage.uk
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social 🌶 Spicing up the left since '94.
🗞️ Issue 248: ‘Striking back’ is out now.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Thackray Museum @thackraymuseum.bsky.social 
Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social Independent online & pop-up bookstore based in Manitou Springs, Colorado | Specializing in LGBTQ+ books 🐺⛰️📚
https://linkpop.com/queer
Malcolm Russell @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social Historian of 20th century Britain / PhD researcher in drug history (from Sept ‘26) / Author of Mudlark’d (Princeton University Press)
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar @histsex.bsky.social Tweets from the History of Sexuality Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social), London | Web: https://t.co/9fxieQfFZ9 | Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/2784plj6
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill Mitchell @clairq.bsky.social Club Tropicana's beverage pricing consultant (they/them)
Read my stuff, nerds: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-7291
Devani Singh @devani.bsky.social Old words and old books: medieval, early modern, digital. she/her
devanisingh.com 
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Snap Book Reviews (and Essays) @snapbookreviews.bsky.social Snap Books is the baby of Thomas G. a graduate student from Ohio, and lives on Wordpress, https://gurinskas.home.blog/, and Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/c/snapbookreviews. 
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Dr Lucy R. Hinnie @yclepit.bsky.social open knowledge @leedsuni 📚 | topics for impact @wikimediauk 👩🏻💻 | cats, mostly 🐈⬛
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
sl grange @slgrange.bsky.social Poet * Queer historian * Mary Frith obsessive * Audio describer * Creative facilitator * Research associate @ Improbable
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University
Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
Librarian by Day 🏳️🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social She/her. Iowa. Libraries. Dog Mom. Crafty. Sometimes serious. Sometimes silly.
Personal account, obviously.
https://librarianbyday.net/
Tom Vause @cheese12233.bsky.social Business, Computing and Partnerships Librarian in HE
Danica Rose 🏳️⚧️ @danicarose.bsky.social 
Auri Jae Williams 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧🇺🇦(they/them) @aurijaewilliams.bsky.social Age: 25
Podcaster and content creator of @neurorainbowproject.com shows Neurodivergent 🧠Humanist (UU), Audhd, Asexual, Aromantic nonbinary
I don’t read direct messagesto contact email aurijaewilliams@protonmail.com
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com Writer, artist, campaigner & creative cultural strategist.
Founder @transhistoryweek.com
Founder smartypantsmarty.com
Columnist for Campaign.
Big sister to Rae ♥️🦦
Requests pr@smartypantsmarty.com
www.patreon.com/martydavies
she/they
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org Working to change society and create a safer future for trans folk in Edinburgh and beyond.
https://rtie.org/
How to be trans-inclusive in 2026:
https://rtie.org/2026/06/04/staying-trans-inclusive-as-a-service-provider/
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
David Eichert @davideichert.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer in IR at Oxford. Sexual violence, law, feminist/queer/decolonial methods. Any pronouns 🌈
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social peacenik. anti-racist. anti-fascist. trans ally. read some effing freud 🍉 🏳️⚧️
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Europeana @europeana.bsky.social - Europe’s cultural heritage online http://europeana.eu
- European data space for cultural heritage https://dataspace-culturalheritage.eu
Funded by the European Union
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Maayan Aner @maayana.bsky.social DPhil student at the University of Oxford | Early modern queer history | Bi | NB | she/they | Nationalism is poison | organiser of queer history events at hflgbtq.bsky.social
The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social Researching the late, great Oscar-winning Australian feature film cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC at http://robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com
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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk Queer political geek; proud social justice warrior, proud trans ally. Queering Wikipedia as chair of @wmlgbt.org; trustee @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social. ex-ORG & mySociety. Dysgwr. My opinions, not my employer’s. he/him
t.me/owenblacker
owen.blacker.me.uk
Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social Progressive publishing on Politics & IR, Economics, Middle East, Asia, Africa, International Development, Sociology & Gender. Sign-up for news: bit.ly/3pxyHjb
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
Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social Historian and curator. Museums, Victorians, and medicine.
Currently curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds
Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social We are a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end our community's support for Israel's occupation and apartheid.
https://linktr.ee/naamod
Nastasha Sartore @nastashasartore.bsky.social historian of gender, labour, sexuality, emotions, & experience. DH enthusiast & AI skeptic. labour lady & postdoc @USask. she/her 🌈💅📚
https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2024.2423763
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social Queer Fandom, East & Southeast Asia, AI and Participatory Cultures
Assistant Prof in Screen Industries, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London 🇬🇧
She/They/Keoi佢 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.evacyli.com
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering queer sexual health, bodily autonomy, and reproductive justice. He/him.
Newsletter dedicated to nerdy and nuanced conversations about gender and (trans)masculinity at genderbent.co.uk.
Commissions: quinn@quinnrhodes.co.uk
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social Independent Transgender Historian and Freelance Researcher
Bridging the Gap Between Trans Studies and Museum Studies
https://linktr.ee/notyouraveragecistory
She/Her
Real African History @rahstory.bsky.social Our history is world history. World history is our history. Exploring the brave new world of the black past - Through stories that highlight positive interactions of people of color with the greater world. 
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social #Historian of gender, sexuality, health & the life cycle in modern Britain.
Research Fellow, Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980, University of Birmingham.
Queer | Feminist | French | Vegan | She/her
Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social Wellcome funded PhD candidate
at Northeastern researching The Beaumont Society: A Transvestite History of Britain from the 1950s
Editorial Fellow at History Workshop
She/Her
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social Hist. gender & sexuality, Weimar Republic, LGBTQ pasts, sexual science / psychoanalysis, visual cultures, neuroqueer. German & Gender Studies, ANU. Views mine. she/they
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
Benevolent dictator of Historians At The Movies #HATM
New episodes available now.
https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Leigh Downes (they/them) @leighdownes.bsky.social Northern, non-binary, cat companion, queer feminist, jigsaw enthusiast, peaks walker, bookworm & Juno Books volunteer.
Senior lecturer in Criminology at The Open University. Researching gender, sexuality, violence & social justice. Views my own.
Laura Borealis 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @riotgrrill.bsky.social She / Her.
Queer stuff, anti-genocide, pro nature & music.
UK Yorkshire based. Queer parenting. Book club.
Fungi / Cephalopods / Moths / Buffering / Ologies / Fever Ray / UK Jazz / Arooj Aftab / Hip Hop / Fanny DiWanko.
Craig Middleton (he/him) @museumguy.bsky.social Queer curator.
Living on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country.
Canberra, Australia.
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 🏳️🌈
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People 🌈
🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner
🐕 Managing Editor Butcher's Dog
🍎 Lecturer in Creative Writing
📚 Poetry Book Society Selector
📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
Proper Working Class Northerner 💪
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller 🐴
Sometime dodo 🦤
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.
Cori Wieser-Cox @cwiesercox.bsky.social they/them • PhD candidate @UniBremen • North & Central American Queer Cinema • Co-editor of @CopasJournal • nonbinary Mexican American living in Germany 🌈
Andrea Lawlor @anderlawlor.bsky.social parent, partner, cat dad, writer, prof, etc.
arms embargo now & forever!
IG: @anderlawlor
website: www.anderlawlor.com
substack: https://pocketlawlor.substack.com
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
jake @jakestefan181.bsky.social irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
The BookishType @thebookishtype.bsky.social Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN | HWA member|Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
Eleanor Medhurst (she/her) @eleanormedhurst.bsky.social Lesbian fashion historian, writer, lecturer 💖☀️ http://dressingdykes.com 📚 ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’ out now!
📍Brighton, UK.
Alisa Lebow @alisalebow.bsky.social Writer, film scholar, human animal, seeker of intelligence that is not artificial or toxic. www.alisalebow.net
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
Maria Munir @mariamunir.bsky.social they/them
views own, RTs/likes not endorsements | interests: criminal law, public law, immigration and asylum, data, human rights, international law | prev experience: lgbtq+ rights, HRDs
Hassana Moosa @hassanamoosa.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature, University of Cape Town | Interested in Racial Slavery and Islamophobia in Early Modern English Drama (Shakespeare and Co.) |🧕🏽🇿🇦 she/her
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.