Clare M Coombe @claremcoombe.bsky.social she/they • tofu-eating wokerata • writer, artist, podcaster, educator • literature PhD • ME/CFS • 🏳️🌈♿ • writing on zombies and crip theory 🧟
UIC GEO @uicgeo.org Union representing 2400+ Graduate, Teaching, and Research Assistants at U of Illinois at Chicago. UIC Works Because We Do! AFT Local 6297, IFT, AFL-CIO. https://linktr.ee/uicgeo
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
dtedt.bsky.social @dtedt.bsky.social Game producer in Philadelphia. #PhillyMakesGames
Verity Ritchie @verilybitchie.bsky.social delam video eseje na YouTubu https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie
Sociologists for Trans Justice (S4TJ) @s4tj.bsky.social Our mission is three-fold:
- To support trans, non-binary, and intersex scholars in sociology
- To advance trans, non-binary, and intersex studies in sociology
- To increase public understanding
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🌐 https://s4tj.com/
Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social That guy from No More Robots
mike at nomorerobots dot io
@nomorerobots.io
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
my DMs are broken
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social ✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Welcome Change @wechange.me When it comes to adult comics, it's time for a Welcome Change.
https://wechange.me/
Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social World's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy.
Website: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/
Other social links: https://beacons.ai/v_museum
Donate: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/donate
The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Alley cat @bunnicula.bsky.social a little bit of this | a little bit of that | time sorceress |🦇🐰| jupiter enthusiast | rinoa heartily defender🪽✨
Em 🌸 ⚢ @smallandgay.bsky.social 28 | femme lesbian | they/them
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 politically a dyke, also a union organizer and sometimes a writer. Speedrun connoisseur, occasionally I play Mario
📍Chicago
Emily Cairncross @emilypileofstones.bsky.social 
Pup CJ @cjqueer.bsky.social “peer-reviewed good boy”, muscle pup shorty, rope switch, gaymer, PhD, artist, friend to many | 🌁 SF
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Nigel Caplan @nigelc.bsky.social Professor @ Univ of Delaware: ESL, education, linguistics. Focused on teacher-training for multilingual learners. Also SFL, ungrading, resisting AI. Newish books: ESSENTIAL ACTIONS and GENRE EXPLAINED. All views my own. www.nigelcaplan.com
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for #StopKillingGames!
Join the community-run Discord: https://discord.gg/TCE6uXwsBe
Check our subreddit for updates: https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/
https://www.stopkillinggames.com
contact@stopkillinggames.com
FDRC🌻 @fdrcart.bsky.social 20↑| TH | fanart | multifandom | FUB FREE
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Dr. Hyeonjin Park (they/them) @hyeonjin.bsky.social phd from ucla, researching monstrosity and identity formation in video game music/sound, with additional interests in animation and kr/jp pop cultures. also a voracious reader.
Embodied WUNC @embodiedwunc.bsky.social A weekly radio show & podcast about identity, relationships and health from @wunc.org hosted by @asrao.bsky.social
LISTEN: https://rb.gy/1apvw4
Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social Author IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH (Ecco,2026); ‘24 New America Fellow; NYC-based Prof @uconn ; ✍️ in LARB, The Baffler, The New Republic, etc; Rep @McKinnonLit, ASL interp 🏳️🌈 LauraMauldin.com
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
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Polygon @polygon.com Covering video games, entertainment, and the culture around them. We find, share, and investigate the things you love and the people who make and enjoy them.
No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com They/Them // digital culture and its discontents // anarchist // noescapevg.com noescapevg@gmail.com
Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social Accessibility specialist, helping studios avoid excluding disabled players. DMs are open, if you prefer email i_h@hotmail.com
IGDA LGBTQ+ SIG @lgbtsig.bsky.social Supporting and empowering queer game developers.
Find us at: https://igda.org/sigs/lgbtq/
IGDA @igda.org The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games.
Can I Play That? @caniplaythat.com An award-winning games media outlet for disabled gamers, by disabled gamers. Sharing our news, reviews, and other content. This account is handled by @abitofaccess.
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social Assistant professor, UB Media Study. Researching and making queer/trans games, narratives, and communities. Director, Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. Catch me 2025 at SCMS, CGSA, and more!
Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film, University of Amsterdam. Author of ANIMATED FILM & DISABILITY: CRIPPING SPECTATORSHIP (2023). Coeditor of TSQ Issue TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY (2025). Newbie crocheter. Dog dad to 17yo Sasha.
K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
Ben Pettis @bpettis.bsky.social University of Richmond
PhD in media and cultural studies. I research platforms and internet culture
Fediverse/Mastodon: @bpettis@benpettis.ninja (https://mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@bpettis)
www.benpettis.com
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
rian c. johnson @riancj.bsky.social i study weird, boring videogames and fantasy fiction and teach teens media literacy. phd, writer, cat dad, and football nerd.
riancjohnson.com has 12% more information about me.
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
Dr Bethan Jones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social Research Associate/lecturer at Cardiff Uni School of Journalism, Media and Culture; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; @fanstudies.bsky.social. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos, cancel culture and other fun stuff.
Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
https://vimeo.com/user107379730
https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
SCMS Video Game Studies @scmsvideogames.bsky.social The Official Blue Sky account for the SCMS Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group
SCMS Adult Film & Media @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the Adult Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group for @scmstudies.bsky.social (the Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
JPS @johnpaulstadler.bsky.social Area ******* and *** taster
Banana Enthusiast
Real
Matt Knutson @mattknutson.bsky.social Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports.
Pronouns: he/him
Amanda Phillips 🌈🇲🇽🇺🇸🎮🎓💀💙✊🏼🐰♍♑ @gamertrouble.bsky.social They/he/she. Ass. Prof LV 2, Georgetown. Gamer Trouble + Queer/Trans/Digital/Diaspora (NYU Press). Transmasc Latinx feminist bunny boi. V srs academic. Subtext for days.
@pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info 🏳️⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | online communities + trans tech | librarian sometimes | mayworms.info
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social game developer, yuri enthusiast, your beloved problematic girlfriend
Feminist Frequency Radio @femfreq.bsky.social The podcast that asks you to be critical of the media you love. Hosted by @katexmachina.bsky.social & AC Lamberty; created by @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social • Listen at patreon.com/femfreq
Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian.bsky.social ✨Things and Stuff✨
anitasarkeesian.com
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Zotero @zotero.org I’m the free, easy-to-use tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources. 
Heather Coles™️ @ PAX @heathercoles.bsky.social UX/UI Design · Product Design · Graphical User Interface Design (GUI) · Generative Art
~gets nerdy about accessibility & video games~
Will repost interesting game slices.
✨she/her✨
#a11y #AltTextPoetry
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
Mike Vazquez-DeAnda, PhD @playfulmike.bsky.social Games scholar & designer, queer, Latinx, rasquachero.
Play is sacred.
Pronouns: any/all
https://www.madeanda.com
Syd L. @yourmonstergf.bsky.social Scriptwriter @ Highdive (Netease) | sphynx dad + poet + goblin + monster lover | they/them
Works: I Am Your Beast, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Tears of Metal, and many more 💀
JC Lau @ Homecom @drjclau.bsky.social A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, BAFTA, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. Originator of #WhatAGameDevLooksLike. She/they. I hope you like ferrets. 💜
Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social Texts & Technology PhD Program at the University of Central Florida. Highlighting news, events, and publications of our great faculty, students, and alumni! tandt.cah.ucf.edu
Dan @danheslep.bsky.social I study platforms! And sometimes I write about them too. I have weapons-grade ADHD so I will make typos without realizing it.
camille butera ✨🪻 @hedgefruit.bsky.social stationery afficionado, grumbler, big fan of cities — information science phd student @cuboulder.info (she/her).
J.P. @johnathanperk.bsky.social • fmr [fired] UCLA DEI Director
• Project 2025 expert
• fmr Harvard in-house counsel
• UVa Law School 2011, Temple University 2008
#TeamGracie | Philadelphia enthusiast | cancer survivor | posts are NEVER legal advice
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. 🇳🇿 Pākehā, currently based in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social Creators of Hades, Pyre, Transistor, and Bastion.
· Merchandise: https://supergiant.games/merch
· Discord: http://discord.gg/supergiant
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Sigrid Luhr @sigridluhr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @ University of Illinois at Chicago
Studying work, gender, and family in the tech and service industries
Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago; non-binary computational social scientist; pro-love; cries at the sad and happy parts of movies
Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
Emily Via @emilyrvia.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Studying gender-affirming healthcare access and anti-trans legislation. they/them. Find me on Substack: https://substack.com/@emilyrvia 
GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com Concordia PhD student. AI, Synthetic Media, and Monsters. Leftist. He/Him
Training isn't theft
Everything for everyone. All of us first.
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
David Adelman @drdavidadelman.bsky.social He/Him/His. Disabled Academic, Queerly Crip. Media Maker. Writer of Things™: Especially about Disability, media, culture, and desire/desiring. Thoughts are my own. www.davidadelman.work 
Wenqi Tan @wenqitan.bsky.social (she/her) PhD at USYD researching disability, inclusion, and technology | Social VR lurker and fandom inhabitant | 🇸🇬
👾 also at @cavrn.org
EK @eekayj.bsky.social Man-shaped to-do list 📋
Philly 🥨
he/him
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, DJ, radical, junglist.
Former streetmedic, current assoc. prof. More at http://larisa-mann.com
She/her.
I wrote : RUDE CITIZENSHIP: copyright, Jamaican popular music & reverberations of colonial power https://tinyurl.com/RudeCBook
Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social Cultural Studies is a field-defining, peer-reviewed journal published 6x/year by Routledge | Nabil Echchaibi & Ted Striphas, Coeditors
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/current
ryan m. milner @rmmilner.bsky.social communication professor. aging meme scholar. charleston, sc usa. he/him