🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
Oct 27: SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social Prolific knitter 🧶 Aran & cables are my passion.
Collector of much yarn / not a yarn snob
Disabled / northern UK based
Chronic spinal pain / fibromyalgia / essential tremor
WOKE 🏳️🌈 / left / atheist
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The Black Archive @blackarchive.co.uk Obverse Books award-winning range of book length monographs on individual Doctor Who stories.
www.blackarchive.co.uk
Sister series to the Silver Archive, which looks at other genre tv.
https://obversebooks.co.uk/product-category/silver-archive/
George Merchant Ballentyne @gmballentyne.bsky.social Bahá'í; broadcaster; cinephile; flaneur; FRSA; futurologist; interculturalist; metamodernist; pataphysician; Scot.
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is out now. A Radio Four pick of the week.
Order details and live events - https://linktr.ee/4hundredblows
UK Makers @ukmakers.bsky.social Celebrating British creativity!
Hosted sharing and community chat every Thurs, 10 am to 1pm GMT for UK creatives.
#UKMakers
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social Writer in the damp Welsh hills.
Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell?
"No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social Belfast, PGR Film Censorship 1932-1937. Interests: 1930s History, Film, Queer Activism. #AlwaysAntiFascist #NoBorders #NoPasaràn #ShutDownLarneHouse #LWithTheT My own views. she/her sí/í
@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social 
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
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Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org Working to change society and create a safer future for trans folk in Edinburgh and beyond.
https://rtie.org/
How to be trans-inclusive in 2026:
https://rtie.org/2026/06/04/staying-trans-inclusive-as-a-service-provider/
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social Analysis & commentary on UK law affecting trans people and their rights. Our work is unfortunately suspended at the moment.
Deeply opposed to UKSC/FWS ruling of 16/4/25 & to its blatant exploitation to hurt trans people by the EHRC, the media & others.
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social Human rights geek | 'might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' |
Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Peter Tatchell Foundation @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social The Peter Tatchell Foundation is a #HumanRights charity with a strong #LGBT+ focus. Help us defend human rights by supporting our work here: https://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/donate/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/petertatchellfdn
Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Discrimination Barrister, Railway, Car and Flying Nut. Trans woman.
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
WhatTheTrans.com
Navigation: #Podcast #Article #Opinion #Analysis #Interview #LiveReport #Protest #Action #Fundraiser #Research #Photography #UK #US #Japan #World
Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk, bassist, theremin player and Green. 💚 she/her.
Juno Dawson @junodawson.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, dog lady.
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social For the community, by the community 🏳️⚧️
Visit | https://www.essehouse.co.uk
ash (ᯟ︿ᯏ) ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 @reactiveashley.cat Cat furniture, cool auntie, and algorithmic witch. Digital rights, and IP law.
Personal account and talks about everything. I usually follow back if you reply or like my post.
Rachel Saunders @rejserin.bsky.social Rights researcher. Passionate travel junkie, field hockey goalie, and all round curiousity freak.
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social Passionate about acceptance for #transgender people & #trans kids 🏳️⚧️ equality & saving our planet 🌍 Inclusive cis feminist ⚧
➡️ https://linktr.ee/mimmymum
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Alex Parmar-Yee @fruitypy.bsky.social Chindian. Trans. Femininomenom.
Campaigns & Operations Director @Transsolidarity.bsky.social
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
❤️🧡🤍🩷💜
@fruity.py.threads.net.ap.brid.gy
Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk Independent Journalist/Writer. Songwriter. Cat lady 🐈 🏳️⚧️ she/her
Subscribe here to support
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social Working for gender identity and gender reassignment equality and rights in Scotland. Part of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
https://www.scottishtrans.org/
Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social I take my cats on walks, work on housing, social inequalities and queering social policy, take action where I can, and knit socks.
📍Edinburgh
Kirsty McTear 🏳️⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social I am a trans-woman and chartered mechanical engineer who works for a major defence contractor in the UK.
After 2 decades of not being active in the community, I am now very active in the fight for trans rights. 🖕 to the UKSC and the EHRC.
Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ @grayfaceghost.northsky.social Trans pan autistic woman socialist antifash coder martial artist priest
Labour supporters or other fash, DNI - you won't like what happens. Blocked by Zack Polanski for calling him a coward on trans rights
She/her
Fediverse: @grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social Decadent post-scarcity revolutionary trans feminist lesbian progressive on disability. Pro Rejoin EU, sometimes a twat.
Concerned Person @concerned-person.bsky.social 
TransLucent @translucent.org.uk https://translucent.org.uk/ 🏳️⚧️ Trans News, Research & Human Rights ⚧️ Winner LGBT Organisation of the Year (National Diversity Awards 2022). Portsmouth, UK.
TACC @tacc.org.uk TACC is an intersectional organisation dedicated to advocating for trans rights, addressing transphobia, and unofficial EHRC watchdog.
❤️Donate: http://alturl.com/ipg2h
🌴 https://linktr.ee/tacc_uk
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
ClaireHam @claireham.bsky.social I’m a woman with a PhD who has never hurt anyone and who just wants to live her life in peace, but unfortunately the UK Government has decided to persecute me, along with my siblings because we’re trans. I will not assist in my own segregation! 🏳️⚧️
it's Lazzie B! once again!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social Designer & Audio Director at @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social: Roman Sands, Paratopic. Dread Delusion💀 ADHD! NSFW maybe!
Sound design, music, design.
Transfeminist illegal girl. She/Her
https://linktr.ee/lazzie_b
RoSa & Para:OD out now! http://bit.ly/4ybiCkI
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Queensland.
James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social aka Alice Aforethought. Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds, but views my own. Social justice, Law's a Drag, violent protest, Pride and drag, raging lefty 🏳️🌈
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-9676
Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Fawcett Society @fawcettsociety.bsky.social UK’s only member-powered org fighting sexism and misogyny in all its forms.
💷 Revolutionising Work
🤖 Creating Feminist AI
🚆 Demanding Dignity and Safety in Public Services
Join us to build a feminist future. Est. 1866
https://www.fawcettsociety.org.
Scarthin Books @scarthinbooks.bsky.social A bookshop for the majority of minorities in the historic village of Cromford, Derbyshire, UK.
100,000 books, 13 rooms, one vegan/vegetarian café and someone else's cat.
For all enquiries please ☎️ or email.
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Marc Welsh @marcwelsh.bsky.social Eclectic, inert, nerdish, a collection of spare parts. Niche Doctor Who references a forte. Masquerades as an academic with a political bent, tho mostly moans about how and why the current system doesn't work. Once wrote something something resilience.
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Juliet Campbell MP @julietcampbellmp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Broxtowe.
To contact me email juliet.campbell.mp@parliament.uk
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Gladys Buckét @steadyonnow.bsky.social My Stan always said, ‘If you’re going to cry wolf then you can’t complain when people stop believing you!'
David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social “Hyper-woke academic with blue hair” (GB News) • He/him • Join a union! • Mostly dogs • Occasionally music theory, musicology & queer studies • Trade union rep
Lexi Breen @lexibreen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, School of health and care sciences, University of Lincoln, co-chair UoL LGBTQIA+ network.
Activist in intersex and trans issues. Trustee of the Klinefelter’s syndrome association and Icon UK, UCU women’s & LGBT committee.
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
https://www.transactual.org.uk/
Info: info@transactual.org.uk
Press: press@transactual.org.uk
Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com Understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media with our free weekly newsletter 🏳️🌈
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J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
Kay Paterson-Bassett @kaytoremember.bsky.social PhD candidate in Education and Social Justice, HE Professional and very tired queer nerd They/them
Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own.
Primary Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Religion. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
Nick Coveney @nmjcoveney.bsky.social Queer Ancient 🌈💀 | Husband | Author EVERYTHING NOT SAVED | Trans incl 💖🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️ books, tech, 🎮| All opinions own & RSkts others'| Occasional life model | He/Him/His https://linktr.ee/nmjcoveney
The Divine Comedy @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social The official Bluesky run by the nice folks at DCHQ
Live: https://thedivinecomedy.com/live
Website: https://thedivinecomedy.com
Album 'Rainy Sunday Afternoon' out now
DMs open on divinecomedyhq facebook & instagram
#thedivinecomedy #neilhannon
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
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.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
UKGiftAM @ukgiftam.bsky.social Promoting original and thoughtful gift ideas from UK indies & creatives
https://ukgifthour.wordpress.com
Clare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social Crochet designer 🧶 and creator of eco-friendly gifts, crafts and kits for you and your home. ♻️💚 European. INTJ.
I'd love you to visit my website here 👉 littleconkers.co.uk
Or find my other links here 👉 smart.bio/littleconkers
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 91/100
📚 Feeding the Monster
📺
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Adam Golberg @cash4questions.bsky.social Strategic Research Development Manager (Research Growth) @ University of Nottingham. Occasional Research Professional columnist. Bureaucratic realist. Soft Order Muppet. Runner. Blog at socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk
Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social She/Her/Elle 🇫🇷
I will NOT have my life defined by other people’s hate; not by the government, not by the NHS, and DEFINITELY not by the courts, or the EHRC.
Bucket list:
1. Move to a beach.
2. Have no regrets. ✅
3. Drive a Land Rover. ✅
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social The image that I run from
Only seems to follow me
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk
👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social Cambridge UCU Vice President, UCU NEC…Oh... and UKIP tried to have me arrested for tweeting. http://campaignforucudemocracy.com
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, director of YarnLab at Stanford, founded the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social Worker-led, cooperatively run bookshop 📚 born from the ashes of union-busting. Building collective power, one book at a time. Open daily, 11am-7pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9RA, UK.
peoplesletters.org
linktr.ee/peoplesletters
Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social Jane Austen, Murderbot, Good Omens, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes fan. Occasionally a stoic philosopher, often a writer, currently a quilter and tombstone tourist. Warning followers about variable signal to noise since LiveJournal.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)