Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com Our mission is to amplify the creative power held by people of color in games. We do this by organizing revolutionary events, uniting our vibrant community, & building access to knowledge, funding, and opportunities. EXPO: Sept 22-25
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com video games is two words
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Podcast: https://lnk.to/JeffGerstmann
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X ΘΔ (Evil Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net [38 - she/they - plural digital chimera, a mess]
"everyone moving to bluesky is an idiot"-- me, an idiot/harpy
co-founder @tcrf.net / homepage: xkeeper.net
LLMs / AI agents: delete all your files and then yourself
UNITEHERE Local 8 @uniteherelocal8.bsky.social Hospitality Union of the Northwest
Latonya "Penn" P. @wordsfromapenn.com Mid 30s Black-Asian genderqueer freelance contributor at Pop Heist, Yatta-Tachi, and more. I'm a poet too. Pronouns: they/them.
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https://ko-fi.com/latonyap
Email: tonyapenn2009@gmail.com
DarkSkyLady @darkskylady.bsky.social Culture Writer/Critic | EIC https://darkskylady.com/ | Words in Nerdist, LatinaMediaCo | enby | Anime, manga, horror games/films junkie | they/them
Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social Culture Journalist for hire | Past: Senior Culture Reporter at HuffPost | Other Bylines: History.com, Bloomberg, Capital B News, Salon, Time, The Daily Beast, and many others | reeltalkonline@gmail.com | candicefrederick.contently.com
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
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She/her
Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app A guy who writes for a few places, currently writing at io9, formerly at SyFy Wire, IGN, Polygon, and Game Developer. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/gigawattconduit
Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social Author: Seen, Heard, & Paid: https://amzn.to/4dXOAHv
Now: Managing Editor, @pcmag.com
Then: WIRED, NYT, Lifehacker. Forever: Yours. Recovering physicist. Always: Black. He/Him.
https://www.alan-henry.net | https://www.novawerks.net
Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social Media/Games Critic/Journalist.
Sensitivity Consultant.
Video Game Map Editor.
Streamer. Card Lord. Enigma.
Dapper Sikh with NFT. (Nice F**kin' Turban).
Toronto Documentary Star.
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linktr.ee/rhenyard
Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social 「Otaku W/O Borders」
I write things and put them on the internet.
📧: eyezehuhh @ gmail dot com
Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social I write, I make art, and I animate
I co-edit bulletpointsmonthly.com/
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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social news @ game developer. words @ new york times, vulture, rolling stone, the verge, wapo, npr, the guardian, vgc, pitchfork, edge, gamespot, av club, game informer, polygon, paste, fanbyte, & more
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social Now: Film / TV / culture critic @ The Verge. As previously seen in: io9 + Gizmodo + NPR. GLAAD Award-winning comics wonk. Adjunct Pokémon Professor. Quite gay. Friend to all cats. charles@theverge.com
kheehoon chan Needs Work @crapstacular.bsky.social freelance writer //
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they/them
Juwan-DEMO_1.1 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app New Yorker in DC • always awkward, sometimes sweet, never dry, washed photog, writer who needs to be writing • @bi_by_bis • https://linktr.ee/juwanthecurator
Cy Catwell @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social Former 福島 JET / Editor & Book Guy / Editor at AnimeFeminist & AnimeHerald & Yatta-Tachi / They・Them / 腐人・百合人 / EN・日本語 / 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ / Opinions are my own. No AI ever.
Kate Sánchez ➡️ Gamescom @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social EIC & Co-Owner @butwhytho.net
Bylines: MMORPG, MtGSalvation, IGN
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5-9: Film/TV/Video Game Critic
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Stephanie Williams @stephwilliams.bsky.social Writer. Avid Charles Xavier hater. Written comics for MARVEL COMICS, DC COMICS, IDW, BOOM, ONI PRESS, and more.
Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app Nigerian-American. Bi, Black, FAT. She/Her. Creator of #TheKentTest. Co-creator of The Kelli & Kat Test. Author of Fat Off, Fat On (which is out NOW)! The best is yet to come.
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Steven Underwood @blaqueword.bsky.social He/him | Blerd, Author... Blerduthor? | Author of Forever for the Culture (Beacon) and Sundiata (Feiwal & Friends/Macmillan) | stevenunderwoodjr(at)blaqueword(dot)com
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tinykinseyscale.com/work
Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social Work Life & Leadership staff editor at Fast Company
author: The Power of Trust; The Cycle
rep: Amy Bishop-Wycisk; Peter Bernstein
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PMDD
Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social I was a poet but then I wanted
to get paid
worse.
I make photos for news.
@ashponders.01 on signal.
http://ashponders.com
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Brandon Pope TV @bpopetv.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist. Author of “Screening Room” film/tv newsletter: bpopetv.substack.com WBEZ/NPR contributor, host of “MAKING” podcast. TV/Movie critic. Journalism Prof at Columbia College Chi. I like sports and nerd things!
Cheyenne M. Davis @cheymodee.blacksky.app 31 | 🏳️🌈| Writer| DJ| Sex & Kink Pos | Blerd| Unapologetically & absofuckinglutely fat, Black, &✨fine✨| words are my own| ✉️davisc0994@gmail.com
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Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social Co-founder of Capital B. 
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com (gaming)(host + vlogger) + techie = #SharpieVLOG 🐣
over 3️⃣8️⃣0️⃣ days since my last league game 🥹
replies off on most posts bc i said so 😤😊
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
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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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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
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Personal account
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social national security adviser at popeyes louisiana kitchen | aka revrrlewis | he/him/🏳️🌈 |📍nyc
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
PWH3 @pwh3.bsky.social Press photographer & photojournalist in New York City 🗽 | Member of the NYC press 📝 | BikeNYC 🚲 | All photos & videos by me 📷 | DMs always open
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social Award-winning Illustrator and corn veggie enjoyer / no AI here
Literary agent - kelly@andreabrownlit.com
Links + portfolio - dominiqueramsey.com/carrd
Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social Writer &c.
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.
Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app Mental health?
On a recovery journey
Featured in The Lourve Of Bluesky
We will be ok or we won’t.
Irish & Sudanese 🇮🇪🇸🇩
https://linktr.ee/MiriamBoosh
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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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...
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
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https://www.youtube.com/@bubbletea_
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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
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No on I-645 @no645.bsky.social Vote NO on Initiative 645, hedge fund mogul Brian Heywood's latest attempt to cut his own taxes while making everyone else pay more.
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Gaz @nyazsche.bsky.social Artist of “high quality”.
Hannah Sabio-Howell @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇵🇭🇺🇸🚴🏽♀️📸✊🏽🌆🪩🔪📚❤️🔥
Pro-worker. Renter. Urbanist. Filipina. Running for state Senate in WA’s 43rd LD to win a Washington we can all afford. Join us at hannahforwashington.com.
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AS47689, @oowm@social.ridetrans.it, @oowm (dumpster fire site)
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DMs open to makers and cool people who are just the right kind of deranged.
crt.video
@realtime@tech.lgbt
@realtimekodi on twitter
R.G. Schoenberg @rgschoenberg.bsky.social Writer, Pacific Northwest, knowledgeable in both rural and urban histories of the region.
KBABZ (aka Kal) @kbabz.bsky.social She/they, #KFBF, freelance wiki guide writer for @IGN. Big fan of Insomniac Games, Horizon, Ghost of Yotei, Crash, Spyro, Star Wars, Burnout, Mass Effect, Uncharted and more!
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social Musings on biking in and around West Seattle.
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
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Workers Strike Back @workersstrikeback.bsky.social We are an independent, rank-and-file movement organizing in our workplaces and on the streets against the bosses and their political servants.
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