Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.
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Chanequa Walker-Barnes @drchanequa.bsky.social Psychologist, theologian, wellness activist, recovering StrongBlackWoman. I write about spirituality, wellness, & justice.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
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Tv Movie Mistress Podcast @tvmoviemistresspod.bsky.social Reviewing historical dramas, BL content, & pop culture with a focus on captivating Asian dramas aka all the tv.
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The Gourmet Goober @jjoutlaw.bsky.social Writer. Foodie. Horror & Marvel blerd.
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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social staff writer @theatlantic.com ✨ audio + film | CAA + Pande Literary
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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social Writer/speaker/cosplayer/cultural critic
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social Words. Ideas. Culture. Shenanigans.
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Jay Justice @jayjustice.net Game dev, writer, editor, consultant. Mass Effect Legendary Edition Community Council. The Game Awards Future Class. Accessibility Pro. Queer disabled Black superhero. she/her jay@jayjustice.net 🇯🇲♿🏳️🌈 in 🇹🇭 jayjustice.net/links
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
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Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social OG Black feminist storyteller • Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Directing writing @empowermentave.bsky.social • I live where the sky ends
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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me The Boogie Down's own anarchist and creative • Kill your idols before I do it for you • Twitter & Instagram: MoreAndAgain
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the novella FES IS A MIRROR. She/her
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writer. talker. strategist. activist.
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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com ✦ co-founder, @genderlib.com
✦ author, THE RISK IT TAKES TO BLOOM
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Bridget Todd @bridgettodd.bsky.social Author of Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy
🎙Host iheartpodcast’s There Are No Girls on the Internet
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God-is Rivera @godisrivera.bsky.social Strategy lady, ad woman, CSO, Mama, wife,
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
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Chris Love @legallylove.myatproto.social She/Her | Tribal Esq. | Repro activist | Fmr. Yes on 139 spox | Fmr. PPAA Sr. Advisor and Chair | Horror girlie | Blocks liberally, but NOT a Liberal.
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
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ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social comedian and writer
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app K12 Educator
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Tami Sawyer @tamisawyer.bsky.social Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk | Intersection of Politics, Race, Class, Freedom, Emo R&B, the South, Memphis, and the Grizzlies
A is for Afro @aisforafro.bsky.social Busy w/ Black Liberation | Award-Winning Political Strategist | Organizer | Writer | Podcaster | #TheLawAccordingToAmber Creator
YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social Embracing my villain era. Words: @blockclubchi.bsky.social
QuianaDenaeA2 @quianadenaea2.bsky.social Unitran Universalist Minister in Formation
Mom of the of Sun and Moon/ teen kids
Dedicated to Colletive Liberation
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M. Yvonne Taylor, Ph.D. @yourfutureprof.bsky.social Critical organizational scholar-practitioner and educator. Research higher ed as raced-gendered workplace and trauma-responsive, equitable organizational leadership as its antidote. Texas refugee in the PNW. 🌈 https://myvonnetaylorphd.substack.com
Angela Lang @angelalang8.bsky.social She/Her Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC). Always an organizer. Views are my own.
Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie.bsky.social Two-time Lambda-award-winning Author of The Summer We Got Free, Skye Falling, and These Heathens (June 2025). Mama. Visionary. Queer icon.
Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social NC born, Colorado’s home. Educator.Org development consultant.Org change leader.Aspiring oracle. Happy wife. Cat mom. Cloud spotter
I said what I said & these views are mine, not those of any orgs I’m affiliated with.
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blackness everdeen @traceycorder.bsky.social Dreamer, organizer, teacher, auntie.
Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social Political Strategist|Advocate|Creator &Host: #EmbracingYourVoicePod
Author,The Instigators: How Black Women Are Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them) Harper 2026
Fmr: Elected Virginia DNC Member & Prez,Young Dems of America
MizTeeFranklin @teefranklin.com 1st Black Harley Quinn Writer
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and Hot Girl General. 1922.
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Very serious about hobbies.
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Malika Jeffries-EL @chemdiva.bsky.social Chemist, STEM DEI advocate, and die-hard Steelers fan 🏈⚫🟡 | Advancing cutting-edge research | Inspiring the next generation of scientists one molecule at a time 🧪🔬 | My voice. Always here for science, equity, & game day vibes.
Leah D. Daughtry @leahdaughtry.bsky.social GodChaser. Bishop. Strategist. CEO,2016&2008 DNCs. CoConvenor,PowerRising. AKA. Womanist. Daughter.Sister.Auntie.MomByOath.Friend. Shoe Queen. YarnAddict. Art Collector.
One of the 92%. Curator, Black Lady News.
ThatGirl523 @bigdocenergy23.bsky.social girl blue. she/her. my thoughts are mine.
Lashelle D Scott, MPM @thelilfirecracker.bsky.social Mom of Bartholomew the Sib Husky
Politico
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Luvvie @luvvie.bsky.social NYT bestselling author (4x) 📚 Noted speaker. Book coach (Founder of The Book Academy).
Latest book: LITTLE DEFENDS HER NAME (out 5/6/25). Preorder: http://LittleTroublemakerBook.com
Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social Writing for @GlobeOpinion.bsky.social, speaking on @ms.now and #SistersInLaw. Snickers's scheduler. Believer in democracy, science and the rule of law. Upcycler. Expert thrifter. Typos are my love language. From Detroit, in Washington, of Boston.
Joshunda Sanders @joshundasanders.bsky.social Author of Women of the Post & six other titles. 2024 NYFA Fiction Fellow & Gotham Book Prize finalist. Former journalist & Exec Comms lover. My writing newsletter is here: https://mailchi.mp/2f4a03e5f293/joshunda
Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social Breaker of glass-ceilings. 1st Black curator at the Guggenheim. Scholar of Basquiat, 80s art, institutional misconduct and fraud. Teacher. Three revolutions. Humanist. Clinton's sister. Viola's. Edie's mama. 9th Generation Texan.
Let's ride out.
Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com Filmmaker, Force of Nature
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Bisi Adjapon @bisiadjapon.bsky.social Writer. The Teller of Secrets, Daughter in Exile (HarperCollins). The Guardian, Aljazeera, The Sun Magazine. McSweeneys Quarterly, Former International Affairs Specialist for USDA. Chocolate & tennis lover. Owned by a puppy
kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us working at the intersection of culture, theology & justice. comms professional. nonprofit executive. mission driven consultant. 1881. 1908. Alabama raised me. ATL made me. Thoughts and opinions are mine.
KiaSpeaksAlso.com
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Karen Hunter @karenhunter.bsky.social The Architect. Pulitzer. Host of "The Karen Hunter Show" on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social and "#KHIA: https://womens-empowerment-network.simplecast.com Founder of Knarrative.com #Knubia, www.theglobalmajority.com AND www.karenhunterpublishing.com (WHEW!)
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Phëlix @phelixxx.bsky.social Brooklyn, Mostly 📍
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Wiggle Melon @sanitythief.bsky.social Stealing ur common sense and drivin u crazy since 1985 aka Lithium to Lashes aka 1/3 of Black Girl Missing Podcast . If you like me, Cashapp me $AceNoir85
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Kiki the Uppity Negress @uppitynegress.bsky.social Ki-lessi. The unbothered. Mother of draggings. Sic gorgiamus subjectatos nunc. Play with your momma or your genitals, not me. Poe’s law 😉
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social B-more's own. Actress & Author of The Forge & Fracture Saga. Head full of trivia, heart full of swordfights 
Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018).
www.jennifernbaker.com
Alencia Johnson @alenciajohnson.bsky.social 
Austin Channing Brown @austinchanning.bsky.social Author of NYT and RBC pick- I’m Still Here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness. There’s also a YA version. Working on the next book now. austinchanning.com