Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social | kansas city | mostly poetry |
| utopians in love @gameoverbooks.bsky.social|
| co-host of @thelinebreak.bsky.social |
| editor @ garden party collective |
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Matthew Nisinson @mnisinson.bsky.social (He/him) poet/bureaucrat with poems out in Bullshit Lit, en*gendered lit, Los Angeles Review, Novus Literary, Southern Humanities Review, and others. Currently working on a deep dive project focused on Catullus 85.
On Instagram as lepidum_novum_libellum
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
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Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
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Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social Final Boss // http://linktree.com/mchang // https://cheeks.bigcartel.com
@janaprikryl.bsky.social @janaprikryl.bsky.social THE CHANNEL @FaberBooks August 27, @wwnorton.com November 3
Kathryn Maris @kathrynmaris.bsky.social Writer (poetry, criticism, translation); poetry editor at AFM.
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Milkweed Editions @milkweededitions.bsky.social Milkweed Editions is a nonprofit independent literary press. We serve authors and readers by publishing life-changing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
aaronsojourner.org
Be kind. Work hard. Have fun.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
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
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(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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Scott Listfield @scottlistfield.bsky.social I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.
BIBLIOPHONE 🇵🇸 @bibliophone.bsky.social Words. Heard.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social A house of poetry overlooking the Hudson River - a library, literary center, & locus of poetic inspiration. //
Armin Ganguly @arminganguly.bsky.social German-Brit rebel made in the 60s, RIBA architect & designer by trade. Mentor & writer by passion. Building dreams, breaking pencils. Living proof that realistic optimism is structurally sound 👍 Motto: 👉 #alwayslookup
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
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Lindsay Wilson @lindsay-wilson.bsky.social Poet & Professor in Reno, NV. Author of The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat and No Elegies. Poetry editor at The Meadow
www.lindsaywilson.net
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Cheryl Boyce Taylor @handle.invalid Poet, mother, teacher, curator, life-partner, MFA, Stonecoast
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com
Arielle Angel @handle.invalid Editor-in-chief, Jewish Currents
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
New Jewish Narrative @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social We are American Jews, deeply rooted in the story of our people and the struggle for peace and justice.
In our narrative, peace and justice are the birthright of Israelis, of Palestinians, and of all people.
We are New Jewish Narrative!
The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for our daily poem newsletter --> bit.ly/3AWdEMl
Produced in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social What's going on my "guys" and, in some cases, my "gals”? I play drums for Guster. Brooklyn NY.
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
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Michael Imossan @michaelimossan.bsky.social Michael Imossan is a poet/writer with an award-winning poetry chapbook “For the Love of Country and Memory” (poetrycolumnnd, 2022) as well as the gazelle “A Prelude to Caving”. He is the winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 2024.
Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Stephen Schottenfeld @schottenfeld.bsky.social Author of This Room Is Made of Noise and Bluff City Pawn
Melissa Crowe @melissacrowe.bsky.social Poet, UNCW CRW prof and department chair. Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) & Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023).
Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social Epidemiologist, lover of the ocean and ice cream. Mom of two toddlers. Founder of “Your Local Epidemiologist”. https//yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org Welcoming our new neighbors in DC metro (DMV) area through solidarity, not charity.
☎️ ICE Emergency hotline: 202-335-1183
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Amy Chen @amychenwrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, dog mom
Repped by Jennifer Newens, Martin-Newens Literary Management
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Archinode @archinodestudio.bsky.social A curated archive of architecture, furniture and design.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Aspen Ideas @aspenideas.bsky.social Aspen Ideas is a conversation-packed event series exploring big ideas and pressing issues in society.
aspenideas.org
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
@samuelamadon.bsky.social @samuelamadon.bsky.social 
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social Author. Independent Journalist. Political Commentator. Subscribe to my Substack to support.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social Author of, most recently, lowercase gods (Seven Kitchens 2026), Windshear (Jacar 2024), and Fugitive (Diagram 2024). PSA fellow and Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar. Editor and Publisher at Green Linden Press. www.christophernelson.info
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay Anti-capitalist elder millesbian 💜 the only way to save ourselves is to save each other
✨i am 40 now✨
“Deranged Online Leftist”
💕🍍 @acab4cutie.top
Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social 
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com
Brandon Haffner @thebrandonhaff.bsky.social Writer, prof, etc. | Stories: Cincinnati Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review | VCCA '23, '24; KHN '24; Hambidge '25 | #RVA | @Richmonder.bsky.social | Prose editor @Variantlit.bsky.social
https://thebrandonhaff.com/
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
Ensign Ron @grandrevans.bsky.social Archivist/librarian. Former editor. Occasional bookbinder. Just a guy who loves books. He/him 🏳️🌈
"A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It’s everybody’s place." –Ursula K Le Guin
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. 
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Elaine Elizabeth Belz @eebelz.bsky.social Theologian, poet, Detroiter, churchgeek.
Asst Prof, Theology, etseminary.edu
Cathedral Choir; Docent; etc., detroitcathedral.org
Some of my writing:
https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts?author=61a8100919657473c2d902d1
https://beltmag.com/putting-down-roots
Prudence Carter @prulcarter.bsky.social sociologist. educator. leader. mother. lover of nature, music, art & all things beautiful. global citizen. views are my own.
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social A literary magazine publishing poetry, translations, fiction, interviews, essays, photography, and fine arts. Follow AR Tunes on Spotify.
amsterdamreview.org
EIC @danielnemo.bsky.social
Managing Editor @phebel.bsky.social
Kinehora @kinehora.bsky.social Still trying to summon a golem
~human rights means all humans~
Semi-pro plant murderer
Miami is home, but Miami is no place to live
You’re not supposed to let Nazis into the bar, not even the polite ones who say what you want to hear
Christine Swint @christinens.bsky.social
Poetry, art, nature, climate, justice. Making little books is my passion. She/her. Más amor, por favor.
http://balancedonedge.blog
Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social EIC @ https://www.amsterdamreview.org/
danielnemo.com
David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social Host of the podcast @inthreepoems.bsky.social.
Poet, birder, librarian 🌈 New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Crab Creek Review, the MacGuffin. 3 chapbooks, including Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, w/ my son Micah, Seven Kitchens Press. davidjbauman.com.
Emily Corwin @emilycorwinwrites.bsky.social Author of Marble Orchard (2023), Sensorium (2020), and tenderling (2018).
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/users/mollie-wilson-oreilly-0 and sometimes other places, too. Currently making rooting for the NY Liberty my whole personality. She/her.
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Kaethe Schwehn @kaetheschwehn.bsky.social Author of The Gospel of Salome (forthcoming fall 2025), The Rending and the Nest, and Tailings. Rep'd by Barbara Poelle. I'm a big fan of historical fiction and democracy.
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater. 
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Rachel Wagner @drrachelwagner.bsky.social Author, Cowboy Apocalypse (2025) & Godwired (2012). Prof of Religious Studies @ Ithaca College, mom & caregiver, disgruntled idealist, loud introvert. Religion, gaming, politics, media, film.
thoughtsandprayers.earth
https://tinyurl.com/CowboyApocalypse
Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor.bsky.social visual essayist, hype man, collaborator, prof
Author of Carousel (Yale University Press, 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020)
www.sarahceniaminor.com
New Dominion Bookshop @ndbookshop.bsky.social Charlottesville's independent bookshop since 1924. Shop local and support your community bookstore!
Shalini Singh @shalinisingh.bsky.social Nominated for Best American Essays 2025 Longlisted for DISQUIET Poetry Prize 2025 MFA Creative Writing & Environment (multi-genre) Assistant Poetry Editor @DIAGRAM Ex-lawyer interdisciplinary social scientist Extrême Contemporain
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Ted Genoways @genoways.bsky.social • Author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
• Senior editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network
• Contributing writer at Mother Jones
tedgenoways.com
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋