Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
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.
David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social Dr in Cruising, Queer Art/Theory and Spectral Politics
0.5 FTE Child of Prague Collector, 1 FTE Faggot
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social a frightful hobgoblin
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
squidward's long lost black cousin (they/themme) @djinnofthedamned.bsky.social 🌖 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝗃𝗂𝗇𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗌 𝖻𝗒 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝗈𝗈𝗋𝗐𝖺𝗒 🌔
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i came to haunt shit, 𝖎'𝖒𝖒𝖆 𝖇𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖙
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ all views my own except those im paid to express by the global jewish conspiracy, obvz
Polling stuff: irishelectionprojections.com
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Shelley Cobb @bellecobb.bsky.social Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies University of Southampton, UK
Trans News Network @transnews.network Trans News Network (TNN) is a worker-run nonprofit LGBTQ+ newsroom publishing articles that impact trans communities.
Follow our work and socials: https://transnews.network/bio
Our writers: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/transnews.network/3luvqfz7loz2d
Anders Ackfeldt @ackfeldt.bsky.social PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul.
“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it.”
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory @jcrt.org founded in 1999 | visit jcrt.org
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink Doctoral student at Oxford working on the history of the demonological tradition, the social science of demonization, and the philosophy of the demonic. Junior Editor at Open Philosophy.
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com i'm a very religious religion journalist. (news editor @sojo.net / writing a biography of Clarence Jordan)
based in Chicago
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
J @jaseomcn.bsky.social 
raye (they/them) @snek.bsky.social
profile pic: the vampire armand kissing his fledgling daniel on his bald spot, by loveisalie_lie on ig
banner description: roman mosaic of romulus and remus with their wolf mom.
Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social Anglican. Theatre person. Alleged theologian.
Sacramental Trans Feminism: Ritualism, Liberation and Trans Rites, out August: https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334063773/sacramental-trans-feminism 🏳️⚧️
medium.com/@cdjtheology
IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social Blog: IrishPhilosophy.com
Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.
#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.
Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
hannahnpbowman.com
christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology, Nov 2026: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889838357/Abolition-Ecclesiology
She/her
Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social Professional bibliophile. Evangelistic about how riding bikes every day is fun. Likes jokes. Just moved from Ireland to teach Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social Dilettante, Director of Jewish Studies at Queen's, I've stopped working on myself because I am tired.
Jessica Mesman @jessicamesman.bsky.social Senior editor of The Christian Century
Writer specializing in religion and culture
Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social Journalist for @DublinInquirer.com mostly covering immigration. Send tips/stories/hellos to Shamim@dublininquirer.com
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social 
OOPS! All Mutual Aid @oopsallmutualaid.bsky.social Sharing stories of, and resources for, mutual aid organizing.
Solidarity, not charity.
Run by @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social. Profile pic by N.O. Bonzo for JustSeeds
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social Medieval Historian and UCU branch officer. Senior lecturer at Winchester University. Research on popular protest, political culture, warfare, rumour/conspiracy theories in England and Scotland, c.1300-1600. Views also on union stuff and politics
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Helen Jin Kim @helenjinkim.bsky.social Associate professor of American religious history at Emory | Author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (OUP 2022) | Book interview: https://youtu.be/uDcAF3oJtTg?si=LiVT_sRwf74xOU-W
The ALEX Project @ask4alex.bsky.social Advocates with Lived EXperience
www.askforalex.org.uk
❤️ insta: @ask4.alex
Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social 🇵🇸 / ❤️☀️💚
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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social Postdoc at UofT, 20th C literature and science, viruses, evolutionary theory, deconstruction, libraryofbabel.info. Author: Natural Lection (http://bit.ly/495ZCJD), Virality Vitality (https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virality-Vitality)
Ferdia Stone-Davis @fjstone-davis.bsky.social Senior Scientist fwf-funded project "The Epistemic Power of Music". Kunstuniversität Graz. Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards and King's College, Cambridge
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift
More here:
http://www.unemployednegativity.com
Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social SWAI promotes the human rights, equality & participation of sex workers.
info@swai.eu
085 824 9305
Donate here: http://paypal.me/swaiireland
sexworkersallianceireland.org
sam mercer @smmrcr.bsky.social ٩( ᐛ )و
lurker / hibernating artist / research and curating the digital programme at the photographers’ gallery
Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.
Broken Rites @brokenrites.bsky.social Divorced/separated ex spouses/partners of clergy, supporting each other & calling for better support of ministers' families, before, during & after breakdown. UK based, international & interdenominational. Est. 1983
brokenrites.org
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
Niamh @niamhatheologian.bsky.social Female, Irish, a Catholic convert, pro-life, leftie, disabled (ME & autistic) & a theologian interested in disability, Christology and more.
Seeking the true, the good and the beautiful.
Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Tristan Sturm @tristansturm.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast
Research: apocalypse; geopolitics; Palestine-Israel; Christian Zionists; conspiracy theories; climate change
https://www.apocalypticgeopolitics.com/
Grey Collier @frgrey.bsky.social 
Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social Author of Currency of Nihilism (Stanford 2026). Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
Barkley @barkleybluesky.bsky.social Feminist
Anna Blackman @annapcblackman.bsky.social Lecturer in Catholic Religious Ed., Uni of Glasgow. Co-facilitator @ Catholic Institute for Nonviolence. Catholic social thought & practice. Gospel nonviolence. Grassroots activism. Catholic Worker movement. Christian anarchism.
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Modern Church @modernchurch.bsky.social modernchurch.org.uk - an open-minded approach to Christian thought
Winchester UCU @winchesterucu.bsky.social The official twitter account for Winchester University’s UCU branch
Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Southampton Radical Reading Group @radicalreading.bsky.social We meet on the second Tuesday of every month from 19:30-21:00 at @octoberbooks.bsky.social
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
WhatTheTrans.com
Navigation: #Podcast #Article #Opinion #Analysis #Interview #LiveReport #Protest #Action #Fundraiser #Research #Photography #UK #US #Japan #World
Andrew Graystone @andrewgraystone.bsky.social Laughter and anger - but not necessarily in that order. Think Christopher Robin trapped in the body of Winnie the Pooh.
Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social Professor of sociology at Warwick. Critical scholar of cultural and religious racism, extractive industries, racial capitalism, planetary crises & power/knowledge. Wanabe devotee of oceans, birds, & hope.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
@christapus.bsky.social @christapus.bsky.social 
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social Working on Bible, Politics, and Culture. Biblical reception obsessive.
Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social Prof of Global Christianities at Lund • Researches religious diversity, religion and migration, religion and the far right, political theology, public theology, and social ethics • Also a trekkie • (And here as a private person.)
ulrichschmiedel.com
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.
The Royal Institute of Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social Dedicated to the advancement of Real Philosophy, For Everyone.
https://royalinstitutephilosophy.org/
Find lectures and events on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@TheRoyalInstituteofPhilosophy
Links: https://linktr.ee/royalinstitutephilosophy
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
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Prem@zeteonews.com
https://linktr.ee/premthakker
Victoria Turner @victoriaturner.bsky.social Lecturer in Theology & Mission at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Co-editor International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. Book Reviews at Modern Believing. URC & Iona Community member.
Edward P. Butler, PhD @epbutler.bsky.social Polytheist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Justice to all beings, reverence to all Gods.
Ole Jakob Løland @olejakobloland.bsky.social Professor in who knows what. Generally interested in the world and particularly interested in the world to come.
Feminist Theology Network @feministtheology.bsky.social An international and inclusive collective of feminist and womanist theologians, scholars and anyone interested in women having a voice within the church.
FTN - For the flourishing of all women.
Tommy Lynch @tommylynch.bsky.social Reader in Political Theology
Vague yet rigorous
Currently trying to watch every Hollywood end of the world film
https://letterboxd.com/ApocaLynch/ 
Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
Naomi Millner @naomimillner.bsky.social Political ecologist of peatlands and wetlands. Commoner. Environmental politics, gender, technology and conservation. Sense and aesthetics. Otherwise, writer of fictions.
Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social Co-author of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender & the Hatred of Identity Politics (Pluto Press, 2022) and Fascism & the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025).
jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social what if we could have the things we liked, minus the things we didn't like
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Hollis Phelps @hphelps.bsky.social Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Mercer University. Religion. Theory. Politics. Psychedelics.
Devin Singh @devinps.bsky.social Decoding religion, money, & power | Prof and Coach | code switching in the Ivy League | Books: Divine Currency (Stanford 2018), Economy and Modern Christian Thought (Brill 2022), Sacred Debt (Harvard soon) | devinsingh.com
John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social Pod Only Knows: https://bit.ly/447CUOH
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Megan E. O’Donnell @meganeodonnell.bsky.social Communications for the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. English PhD. Drawn to speculative ecologies and Victorian fairies. Writing, crafting, and composing at the tempo of molasses.
Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social 🎤 Comedian, scam hunter, fun fact guy
✉️ Free newsletter w/ bonus facts and tour dates:
https://linktr.ee/alexfalcone
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Ryan Cagle @ryancagle.com 
Atla @youratla.bsky.social *Collectors and Connectors in Religion & Theology*
Advancing the work of libraries & librarians worldwide
www.atla.com
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social Your astro bestie. Cofounder of the CHANI app. NYT best-selling author of You Were Born For This.
jenn Zahrt @zahrtillery.bsky.social wordsmith
Mary-Jane Rubenstein @mjrubenstein.bsky.social teacher, author, peacenik. www.maryjanerubenstein.com https://bit.ly/Astrotopia, https://bit.ly/WorldsWithoutEndMultiverse, https://bit.ly/Pantheologies, https://bit.ly/StrangeWonder, https://bit.ly/EntangledWorlds
CenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. www.censamm.org