Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
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Fringe of Colour @fringeofcolour.bsky.social Publishing introspective Responses to art in Scotland and connecting Creatives of Colour through events and opportunities. Est. 2018. https://www.fringeofcolour.co.uk/
Janine Walker @janine-walker.bsky.social Poetry. Fiction. Imagination. Queer stuff. Recovery. Nature. My gorgeous Lab, Lu.
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Newsletter: The Middle Star - https://janinewalkerwriting.substack.com/
Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair @abookfair.bsky.social Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday 31st October 2026 10am to 4pm
People’s History Museum, Left Bank, M3 3ER
FREE ENTRY
Contact: manchester@bookfair.org.uk
Find out more at: www.bookfair.org.uk
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social earning ££££££££££ from cultural marxism for being gay, ASK ME HOW!
Fiona Barnett @fibiscuit.bsky.social Books, ghosts and visible mending. One of life's pedestrians. Returning to social media extremely slowly.
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
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Without Pity @withoutpity.bsky.social Keep your mind in hell and despair not | mutual aid | cyborg ecology | communism | he/him/his
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AJ West Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling novelist: THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE #AlwaysTogether 🦚 📚 Broadcaster 🏳️🌈 Homosexual
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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
Ruth Aylett @ruthaylett.bsky.social (she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social www.statsforlefties.com
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Dr Anni Donaldson @annidonaldson.bsky.social Feminist|oral historian|domestic abuse|women's activism|patriarchy in 20C Scotland | writer book/music reviews | Hon Res Fellow @StrathHaSS exSpringburnlassie
Make Hope Possible @makehopepossible.bsky.social A new collective transforming Scottish politics by finding new ways of organising, discussing and building hope. Powered by Democratic Left Scotland.
Robbie MacLeòid - Writer @robbiemacleoid.bsky.social Writer & Musician | Gàidheal | PhD in love and gender in medieval Gaelic | TTRPGs, video games, too many books
✏️ in Gutter, STEALL, New Writing Scotland, amongst others
Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social Publicist, Daunt Books Publishing
Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk Software developer, poet, and only ever person to not be wrong about Doctor Who. Writer of 'The R-Pattz Facttz 2020' and 'polblar Tmolkop'. I was the first person to see comedy potential in the Vengabus.
He/him
https://andrewblair.co.uk
Weird Pride @weirdpride.day 'Normal' is a trap.
Weird Pride Day is the 4th of March.
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@tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social Sociologist at the Humboldt University of Berlin, writing on #QueerMigration, #racialization, and sexual politics in #MENA #Europe 🏳🌈 Dr. WiMi ✍️ Queer and Trans Life (2024)& Resisting Far-Right Politics (2024)
Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social Pasajere en tránsito perpetuo (tnx e:AM), co-founder of dpr-barcelona + researcher Architecture & Care ETH Zürich. They|them antifascist 🌈 "Love, music, wine and revolution." Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
dpr-barcelona.com
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Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social How To Lose A Country — Together — and coming soon Nation of Strangers https://www.canongate.co.uk/nationofstrangers ecetemelkuran.iletisim@gmail.com
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social researcher, campaigner & writer based in Glasgow
interested in histories of solidarity & care. living rent partick & unite member
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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
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Jude FireSong, aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy @fabulousphoenixboy.bsky.social (gender)queer [he/him]
AuDHD mad disabled survivor
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Scotland
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
HarlequinR.bsky.social @harlequinr.bsky.social He/Him, Pan, 40.
Edinburgh at heart, Whitburn by regrettably necessity.
Hobbyist of minor conversions and oil paint exploration. Open bias in favour of 6th Ed WHFB.
Can't have too many books or comics.
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
@ech0reads.bsky.social @ech0reads.bsky.social he/him🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
avid reader and reviewer | library worker | lover of queer fiction, fantasy, Sci-Fi, and historical fiction | autistic
storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ech0reads
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social An Indigenous led project
anticolonialhistory.com
submissions: anticolonialhistory at proton dot me
QueenHare @queenhare.bsky.social Artist, bookseller, folklore, linocuts, design, mask making, bookbinding, in Ipswich, Suffolk
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Round Table Books CIC @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social Inclusive bookshop & Community Interest Company
73 Granville Arcade, Brixton Village, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PS
Medical Aid for Palestinians @medicalaidpal.bsky.social 40 years of supporting the health and dignity of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
UK Charity No. 1045315
Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
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Dr Bee Hockin @beehockin.bsky.social recovering academic & Editor in Chief of Phytotherapy Research at Wiley 🧪 Edinburgh 📌 they/he 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️ big fan of n95 masks & clean air 😷 views & opinions are my own and are posted independently of my employer
Joel White @joeljoel.bsky.social Friends In Common out now, come say hi on the tour : https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon @friendsincommon.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🍉
GLARC tapes / Communal Leisure
Writing about solidarity, Islamophobia, antiracist & Queer history, No Borders, music.
Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social Seditionists need materials.
We aim to provide them.
No Profit. No Bosses.
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Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social We are a grassroots campaign group led by sex workers, trade unionists & feminists. We fight for the full decriminalisation of sex work in the UK.
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for North East Scotland | Rector of Dundee University | Eco-Socialist & Intersectional Feminist | She/Her
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social Campaign to stop all new oil & gas extraction 📢 #StopRosebank #StopCambo Get involved: http://stopcambo.org.uk
CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social Writer, game designer, welsh, queer
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https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/
Roz Foyer @rozfoyer.bsky.social General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress
Emma Jackson @mrsemmajacko.bsky.social Social justice. Trail running. Bit of broadcasting. Always hopeful.
Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics is the podcast making hope normal again with Zack Polanski.
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ShoshanaR @biblioteka0131.bsky.social Librarian, formerly an anthropologist. Sometimes posts on Edinburgh, photography,cycling, music, D&D, books, library stuff. Not actually a cat. Personal account, all views are mine.
👽☄️CJ De Barra 💀👻 @cjdebarra.bsky.social Author of Neuroqueer: a neurodivergent guide to love, sex and everything in between & the Notts Queer History Archive 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Queer non binary journalist with adhd 🇵🇸
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them
Languages: en, de, fr, sv
Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh
Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social Scottish Green Party MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Contact me on kate.nevens.msp@parliament.scot
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
Images/poems mine unless credited. AI must be consensual.
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social Climate and culture, inspired by nature 🌍
Magazine, podcast, newsletters, features, and more. ↓
https://atmos.earth/
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
autonomynews.co
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social Disability rights & sausage pics. Journalist, commentator and DWP botherer. Author of Ramping Up Rights She/they.
https://linktr.ee/rachelcdailey
Cecile Simmons @cecilesimmons.bsky.social Researcher specialising in online harms and gender equality. Recovering wellness enthusiast thinking about community and resilience. First book: CTRL, HATE, DELETE (out March 2025 with Policy Press).
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Commoners Choir @commonerschoir.bsky.social An ever changing rabble of ne'erdowells singing about the world around us, with hope and anger in four part harmony. Boff writes our songs 🎶
Based in Leeds, Yorks. Will travel. GSOH.
commonerschoir.com
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DJ PAULETTE @djpaulette.bsky.social Award 🥇 winning 🏆 Haçienda 🚧 Queen 👑. Author ✍🏾 Advocate 🐝 ☮️ Activist ✊🏾Ally 🫶🏾🤝 Disco. House. Techno 🎶 Gaydio. She / Her. Bookings Ali@warmagency.com
LIVEwire Poetry ⚡️ @livewirepoetry.org ✍️ Live poetry events & writer development
📚 Co-producers of Leeds Storytelling Festival
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Republican Socialist Platform @rsp.scot For human emancipation, liberation and self-determination in its widest sense. We publish @heckle.scot.
republicansocialists.scot
Emily Mann @emann.bsky.social Researcher, educator, first-gen. "Nae a quiet quine."
Holly Bird @holly-bird.bsky.social • PhD student researching prison expansion at Uof Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• fellow @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social Comic Writer - Alex Automatic, Nightmare Fuel, The Edge Off, House of Sweets, IND-XED, The Berg. Comics here: cabalcomics.bigcartel.com
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
Juliet Mabey @jule9.bsky.social Publisher Oneworld w/ brilliant prize-winning fiction, inc Marlon James, Paul Beatty, Tayari Jones, Paul Lynch, Tess Gunty, Chelsea Bieker, Caoilinn Hughes etc. OBE.
Debbie Cannon @debsca.bsky.social Scottish actor and writer.
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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Dreamer. Racial Equity at Corra. Communities. Chai for the win.
Climate Camp Scotland @scotclimatecamp.bsky.social Organising mass action against the fossil fuel industry in all of Scotland
climatecamp.scot
@righttobe.bsky.social @righttobe.bsky.social 
Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social Investigative Journalist climate, energy, environment.
Rolling Stone politics contributing reporter.
"Gripping in its disgusting clarity." - my writing
Books include, THE TYRANNY OF OIL.
Lecturer.
http://www.AntoniaJuhasz.net
Katie Harling-Lee @katieosha.bsky.social Literature academic & bookish person based around Edinburgh, Scotland, curiously crossing disciplinary boundaries in work and life 📚
Current in-progress project: researching Quaker Silence in the novels of neglected author Dorothy Canfield Fisher 🌸
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
Hamburglar Humblebrag @plantpotonassis.bsky.social Carer who likes gardens, wildflowers, guinea pigs, cats, supernatural fiction and films where Nicolas Cage finds a treasure map.
SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com Writes historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS out now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
Edinburgh Mask Bloc @edinmaskbloc.bsky.social High filtration mask distribution in Edinburgh
Email edinmaskbloc@proton.me for details and requests!
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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