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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social Writer. Podcast host. Book Boyfriends (10/6/26). The Godmother. The Prince Mixtape. Thirst Aid Kit. This Is Good For You. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be (memoir). Lilith, But Dark (poetry). soft. nicholeperkins.com
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social Creative Consultant, master of language.
Former deputy editor of Don Diva Magazine.
Mentally ill. Christ enthusiast. Pan-Africanist ❤️🖤💚.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social CEO and Publisher of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, a nonprofit newsroom in beautiful Baltimore City.
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social “Everybody has to die Firdaus. I will die and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”— Nawal El Saadawi
My website 🔗: williamcanderson.info
My book 📖: https://www.akpress.org/nationonnomap.html
derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame
co-editor of Sociology of Education | co-I of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
mamax2 | Michigander | former PS teacher |
scholar of education, inequality, mass incarceration, and race
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
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Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉
Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social Professor | Race Scholar | Data Maven | Novelista | Polymath | Founder of Numbers4Justice.com
my work ~ FUBU (data:science) + education + justice + quantcrit
my jam ~ family🫶🏽friends + new challenges + sci-fi:travel:rest + 💙🤍💙🕊️
Brittany P. Battle, PhD @dr-b-pearl.bsky.social Unapologetic & Unafraid. For the love ❤️🖤💚.
Free us all.
Auntie | Godmom | Homie | Sis
Abolitionist Organizer, Co-Founder @TriadAbolitionProject.org
Sociologist, Co-Founder @cclwfu.org
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Dr. Korey Tillman | Ṣàngówálé @k-till.bsky.social Asst Prof. of Crim and African Studies @Northeastern. Abolitionist. Scholar of Policing, Antiblackness, & Empire. Yoruba. ΑΦΑ. #SocAF #BlackSky
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social Yup, same one from the bird app.
Demetrius Miles Murphy, Ph.D. @demetriusmurphy.bsky.social I’m an urban and economic sociologist of race & culture, studying how Black communities cultivate flourishing across the Americas.
https://bio.site/DemetriusMurphy
Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social UAlbany, SUNY Assistant Professor of American Politics. Researching Black Politics, Distrust, and Neighborhood Institutions.
Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social Georgia girl• UNC-CH associate professor of sociology • alum of Mercer, UGA, & Duke • hopeful for a better tomorrow
Casey Stockstill @caseystockstill.bsky.social sociology prof at Dartmouth. I talk about kids, racism, and preschools a lot, with some other stream of consciousness TMI every 12 days or so.
Jalia ✨ @thememoryworker.bsky.social Memory Worker • Professional Shit Talker • Assistant Prof. of Sociology • Studying social movements, race & gender, collective memory & emotions
Dr. Brittney Miles @blkschlr-bmiles.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology. Sociology of Black Girlhood, Beauty, Embodiment, (A)sexuality, and Disability.
Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana @zraresearch.bsky.social Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry.
Always speaking for me.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨
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Black Museum Geographies @blackmuseumgeogs.bsky.social We are a 5-member research team comprised of geographers from across the United States. We study the role & impact of Black museums.
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.
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!
big b and the b stands for bedour 🌙 @balagonline.bsky.social writer, professor | ✍🏽_the interminable catastrophe_ | strong from years of fantasy & study like amiri baraka | say mashallah bc i’m even hotter irl 🧿| https://linktr.ee/bedouralagraa
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social I study social movements and organizing on the Left.
New book on white folx organizing for racial and economic justice:
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Cloyingly earnest😆
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which josh are you? @ddhewty.bsky.social If you don’t already know, you don’t need to know.
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
The Neighborhood Publicist @nhoodpublicist.bsky.social I’m an award winning Publicist and co-founder of Millennial Maven Creative Foundation. Jesus shook tables and I do too. Your feelings about me only matter to you 😉.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Ike Moses @ikemoses.bsky.social South Centraleño. Khakis enthusiast.
Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer.
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
Christian Blake @blakeblayke.bsky.social Black Romcoms? I write that.
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app Cat parent. Coffee Addict.Opinions are my own.Black Software Engineer
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LE @spacedemands.bsky.social Geographer 🗺️
hurstonian @ahmadgreene.com 🏫 professor, writer, lover
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Alyasah Ali Sewell, Your Public Sociologist for the Day @aasewell.bsky.social Winship Distinguished Research Prof & Associate Prof of Sociology at Emory. Critical Racism Studies & Intersectionality. Black Feminist. Gender Expansive. Lefty. #Blackademic. ✊🏾🌈
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Robert D. Bland @robertdbland.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies @ the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Associate editor @ Journal of Civil War Era/Muster
Scholar of Reconstruction-era and memory. Weekend hiker. Iverson-era NBA apologist.
@lumumbabandele.bsky.social @lumumbabandele.bsky.social Baba, Husband, Organizer, DJ Lumumba aka Revolution, Professor, Performing arts presenter, Righter, Omo Obatala, #BedStuy! #UhuruSasa 🇯🇲
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Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social Author. Passionate about racial equity in education.
Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.
www.natashawarikoo.com
Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Sociology & Inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair, CUNY Queens College. Formerly NYU (PhD), Harvard (postdoc). Sociologist of race, citizenship, fascism, AI.
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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social Black studies scholar
Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they
I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social writer of books • founder of magazines • professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Darius @dariusjohnson.bsky.social Public History | Digital Humanities | Cultural Landscapes
Director of Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project at Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social NCPH advances the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging historians' engagement with the public.
Digital Public Library of America @dpla.bsky.social The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums, and makes them freely available to all.
clive henry @clivehenry.bsky.social phd student researching post-war fascism/history of emotions at uni of Northampton; proud enjoyer of all the musics; diy or die; new puritan est domini; shivering winner/moody brooder.
Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ mainly 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ cats 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ as it were 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛AADHum🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛MITH🐈⬛🐈⬛UMD🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛I profess 🐈⬛🐈
Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social Endo/adenowarrior. Infertility lost, IVF won. Mom of two beautiful boys. Neurodivergent. Coalition-driven for Liberation. Vote Blue and Protest for Palestinians at the same time. Non-Zionists only please. 🍉❤️ I left twitter when it was still twitter.
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social Outchea. TK.
curious? syreetamcfadden.com
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.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social Organizer, Writer, Lawyer
Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/
Black Liberation Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6o7j4ZNNziKnCyds8-XzA
Tennille Nicole Allen @tennillenallen.blacksky.app West Side Chicagoan by birth. Sociology professor by training. Black feminist by Audre, bell, and Patricia. I study Black people doing Black things in Black places.
V. Prasad @quickdarshan.bsky.social Detroit-based filmmaker. Screenwriting Lecturer at UofM. Curator of SOUTH ASIAN FILM SERIES. Author of the forthcoming WRITING THE ENSEMBLE FILM for UofM Press.
Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
Howard Winant @hwinant.bsky.social Father, partner of DR, Saba, race/racism scholar, Marx, new left, secular Jew. Parents were refugees.
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
prithi @prithik.bsky.social archives, nyc history, cuny • public historian • scouser (she/her) • BROOKLYNITES @nyupress • https://prithikanaka.com
wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
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Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS