Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Elen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.social I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
Trotters @trotters.world Just great travel writing. No PR.
trotters.world
Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com books, bugs, bolitics 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
@afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Solidarity initiative for LGBTQ refugees @nation221.bsky.social
we are the correlation of LGBTQ refugees in refugee camp here to promote love, peace and also requesting for help support and donations to help our organization and folks to pass through all this hard times.
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witch™
Ceramics artist based in London
www.roseschmits.com
she/her
Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social Art historian
Writing about art, books & culture
Editor at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social
Commissioning Editor at @artukdotorg.bsky.social (Drawings)
https://www.elizagoodpasture.com
Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social Specialist transcription services with a social impact
Supporting research, improving access, and creating fairly-paid, flexible, accessible work for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent freelancers
https://linktr.ee/academicaudiotranscription
Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social Postdoc philosopher in social & political | mama to small people | disabled, chronically ill and audhd | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social Professor in Digital Media @Lancaster University. Affect, intuition, habit, digital media, AI, culture, politics; Affect Theory Reader 2: http://tinyurl.com/36zdbeak; Revolutionary Routines: http://tinyurl.com/mtkehm62
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us reckon with loss & imagine more just, liveable futures | Born at 335 ppm | www.stefcraps.com
Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social Writer, Humanities Prof, University of Birmingham
Vice-President, British Academy
WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLD: HANNAH ARENDT'S LESSONS (2024),
OLD WOMEN: A HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE (COMING 2027)
Rep Zoë Waldie RCW
https://lyndseystonebridge.com/
David Stirrup @dfstirrup.bsky.social Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies, University of York (recently arrived; still recovering)
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate in media and corruption at KCL - interested in narratives of terrorism, immigration, race, gender and religion through a postcolonial feminist approach
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Ulrike Krause (she/her) @ulrikekrause.bsky.social Prof at @ifpolms.bsky.social, @uni-muenster.de
Thinking about gender, forced migration, conflict, humanitarian politics, postcolonial legacies, non/knowledge
Recent book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909013
Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social We are Forced Migration Review, a world-renowned publication based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
www.fmreview.org
Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social Updates, commentary and analysis on UK immigration and asylum law. Sign up to our weekly email newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2yNDl3r.
Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK campaigning charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fight for rights and justice.
https://linktr.ee/migrantsrightsnetwork
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
Wendy McMahon @wendymcmahon.bsky.social Academic. Environmental Humanities, University of Exeter, UK (Cornwall)
Co-Director Centre for Arts and Environmental Humanities.
Caribbean and American Studies
https://hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/environmental-humanities/
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
Hannah Alarian @hannahalarian.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | Citizenship, immigration, and far-right populism in Europe
*opinions are my own!
CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social Parliamentary adviser on immigration and asylum. Child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, are my own. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/authors/cj-mckinney/
AVIDdetention @aviddetention.bsky.social Membership network for volunteer visitors to immigration detention. Helping those detained in removal centres, STHF & prisons across UK.
Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis on UK migration.
Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social We are a migrant-led national organisation empowering migrants to speak out, challenge perceptions and change public debate, in the media and to policymakers. Offices in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.
Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, is a global leader in multidisciplinary research on forced migration.
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk
Connect with us: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/forms/general/connect
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Tom Goodfellow @goodfellowtom.bsky.social Prof of Urban Studies and International Development @Sheffield uni. Cities, politics & political economy, migration & mobility, land, infrastructure, conflict. Part time Senior Research Fellow in Research & Evidence Directorate @FCDO. All views my own.
Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofGlasgow. Looking at migrants contesting borders/RLOs in Egypt. Critical Border and Migration Studies. I ❤️ Cairo’s Street 🐈 🐈⬛. Always missing NEPA Summer Bazaars. 🍉🇸🇩
Nicolette Busuttil @nikkibusu.bsky.social Lecturer in Law (SOAS University of London) researching the intersection of disability human rights with migration & refugee law | EU Law & IHRL
Food-obsessed Southern Mediterranean immigrant (still) acclimatising to life in London.
Claire Healy @clairehealy.bsky.social Migration, smuggling and trafficking researcher at the UN. Sci fi and sci reality obsessive. Social science, futurisms, ethics, politics and a good cup of black tea with milk. Born 🇮🇪, lived in 🇩🇪 🇦🇷 🇵🇹 and sort of 🇳🇬, now 🇦🇹
Dalia Abdelhady @daliaabdelhady.bsky.social Sociologist of Middle East diasporas, bureaucratic violence, children of immigrants, gender and cultural analysis.
Sophia Brown @sophiastories.bsky.social Writer and academic; mainly thinking about climate change and migration.
MSCA Research Fellow at Durham University's Geography dept.
I write a newsletter on climate-related loss and damage: https://lossanddamage.substack.com/
Sophia Arnold @sophia-arnold.bsky.social phd at the uni of kent with Incomindios UK.
environmental and climate justice in Turtle Island | Indigenous art | protest aesthetics
Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!
Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
Isabelle Hesse @isabellehesse.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. University of Sydney. On unceded Gadigal Land. New book: Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture (EUP, 2024): https://tinyurl.com/mw82dmks
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Rachael Gilmour @rachaelgilmour.bsky.social Professor of English at QMUL. Literature, language politics, and social justice.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/gilmourr.html
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Sian Cowman @siancowman.bsky.social climate justice educator & researcher ❘ solidarity beyond borders ❘ PhD & Hume fellow Maynooth University Dept of Media Studies on media framing of climate migration ❘ 🏳️🌈
Kaja Marczewska @kajamarczewska.bsky.social Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020)
Giovanni Bettini @giobettini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Lancaster (UK)
Climate Change | Migration | Political Geography | Digital Geographies
DigitalClimateFutures.org.uk | @digitalclimate.bsky.social
Dr Ellie Atayee-Bennett @ellieatayeebennett.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at Southampton Solent University | Research interests inc. everyday sustainable practices, climate action, vegan studies, food, culture, and religion
Gillian Roberts @citizenofblue.bsky.social Settler Canadian migrant in the UK. Reader, writer, professor, knitter, runner, cyclist, roller skater, stepmom, dog mom. Dress code: blue. Co-host of Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes, and the Stories They Tell. She/her.
Paolo Morini @pmorini.bsky.social Research Fellow, Policy Institute at King's College London. Public opinion and public participation/engagement with politics, especially global poverty and sustainable development.
Archie Bland @archiebland.bsky.social Head of national news at the Guardian.
Claire Chambers @clarachambara.bsky.social 'Scholar-adventurer'. Scholarship nowadays mostly in literature from South Asia and diaspora, postcoloniality/decolonization, & translation studies - Uni of York. Adventures are in food, Hindi/Urdu, Indo house, cycling, & (formerly) Zumba teaching
Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Sociology & Co-Director Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK.
www.lucymayblin.com
www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
www.Channelcrossings.org
Juni Kvarving @juni-kvarving.bsky.social 🌿Environmental Humanities Researcher with a PhD in English Literature | Freelance Editor/Tutor
https://junikvarving.com
Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at WVU.
Views are my own and don't represent my employer.
Author of Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style https://fordhampress.com/aesthetic-impropriety-hb-9781531510626.html
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Mirjam Leuzinger @mirjamleuzinger.bsky.social Latin American, Spanish & French Literature and Culture | @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social | 🇨🇭🇧🇷
✏Decolonial Europe · Exile · Migration · Gender · Diversity · Jorge Semprún
Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social Online seminar series coming May 2025, organised by Sam Grinsell (UCL) and Giulia Champion (University of Southampton). More details coming soon!
e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social Author of Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life (University of Minnesota Press 2026). queer geographer extraordinaire / food systems researcher / grant writer / editor / artist
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Ronnie Barnsley @ronniebarnsley.bsky.social Lecturer global literature, Sheffield Uni
Researching childhood, birth & midwifery narratives, reproductive justice
Sidehussle in journalism - running, fitness, outdoor adventure 🏃♀️⛰️ 🚴
Fiction writer 📝
She/her
Anna Codrea-Rado @annacod.bsky.social Writer and journalist living in Transylvania.
A-Mail on Substack https://annacodrearado.substack.com/
Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk digital editor @ Little White Lies. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
author of books on sofia coppola + wes anderson, MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS out Nov 2026, Jackass book Oct 2027!
https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong
Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social Author: THIS ELEGANCE, TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Art Writer | He/Him
📍Chicago
https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
#firstgen
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social but views own.
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Kent
Postcolonial & contemp lit, climate crises, migration & decolonisation
📚Global Literature & the Environment (2024) • Post-War British Literature & the End of Empire (2016)
Emma Bond @efbond.bsky.social Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies, University of Oxford. Interested in migration, museums and empire. New book CURATING WORLDS out Dec 2024.
Dr Kate Houlden @kate-houlden.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Brunel University. Dr. Feminism, queer theory and world-literature, donestic workers. Books, issues, rants. Opinions my own etc. she/her/cis. adoptee. adhd.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Dr Ana-Maria Herman @anamariaherman.bsky.social Researching gender in the arts + STS + museums + digital + apps | See my blog site for more: www.anamariaherman.com | Author of 'Reconfiguring the Museum' (McGill-Queen's Uni Press, 2023)
Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. No access to DMs.
PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social ECR, Visiting Scholar at Uni of Leeds. Feminism, modern & contemporary lit, affect, activism in literature, env hums, med hums, place writing, transnationalism. She/her
Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social Reader in English at City Uni London. The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). Convening Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
More info: www.drdomdavies.com
Nadia Kiwan @nadiakiwan.bsky.social Francophone Studies; Decolonial Theory; Migration and Critical Border Studies - University of Aberdeen
Farradeh ✨️ @farradeh5.bsky.social Pronounced like the Scientist | Cambridge Trust Scholar | Studying Health, Medicine and Society 🎓 📚 | UniKent Alumni | Safe Space for 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ | 📸 🎹 🧶 |
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen
website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/
“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."