Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Independent journalist. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, u.a. FAZ, taz, Zeit Online und Merkur. Redaktion 54books. Newsletter: kulturundkontroverse859.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/johannesfranzen
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social Yankee Londoner, feminist, Holocaust historian, all-purpose nerd
Interests: archives, gender, public history, research ethics, coffee, books, music, etc.
Co-Director @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
https://christineeschmidt.com
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Rosie Ramsden @rosieramsden.bsky.social Lecturer in Modern History, Manchester Metropolitan University | Historian of the Holocaust, gender, sexuality and emotions
Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo studies 🏰 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️
jennessahester.com
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Adrian Feinberg @alsfeinberg.bsky.social Assistant Editor @foreignaffairs.com
All takes lukewarm and my own.
Larry Patriquin @larrypatriquin.bsky.social NEW book—Democracy and Social Rights: A Path Toward Equality? (Routledge, June 2025).
Just starting work on a book about the failure of so-called liberal democracy. Hope to publish it in late 2028.
https://nipissingu.academia.edu/LarryPatriquin
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Antonia Eliason @antoniaeliason.bsky.social Law prof, international law, climate change, trade and space law scholar, occasional speculative fiction writer, history PhD candidate writing about women sentenced for political crimes in Stalinist Hungary.
University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social Founded in 1901, UTP is Canada's leading scholarly publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America. utppublishing.com
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social Come and study German at the TEF Gold-rated University of Portsmouth on England's beautiful South Coast! https://www.port.ac.uk/study/subject-area/languages
MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social Historian of the history of monarchy, the court and the upper aristocracy of Europe. France, Louis XIV, heirs and spares, dukes and princes, sexuality. Loves to tell good stories.
Senior Editor, The Court Historian
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Transatlantic and North American History @uni-freiburg.de; US food aid | blockades | postwar
Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social 🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here do not represent the views of my cats.
Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social A magazine of political commentary, analysis, and amusements.
https://linkin.bio/currentaffairsmag
Dr Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social Historian and Author, St Andrews (she). Team Leibniz.
Modern Germany, Identity Studies, Food History.
Publications: https://claudiakreklau.wordpress.com/publications/
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
@stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social Historian: Eastern Europe, Romania, Holocaust and genocide, minorities, legal history, transitional justice; Associate Professor - Chapman University; views are my own
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.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Dr William Ross Jones @williamrossjones.bsky.social Historian of the Holocaust, Gender, and Sexuality
Freelance German-English Translator
DPhil from the University of Oxford
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Shane Patrick @shane.wlm.sn One brain cell that works really hard
📍DC
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Mikkel Dack @mikkeldack.bsky.social Historian of violent extremism and de-radicalization; @hfguggenheim fellow; book on Everyday Denazification (CUP, 2023): http://tinyurl.com/4rmrjk2y
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Foreign Exchanges @fxnewsletter.bsky.social Newsletter devoted to international affairs and US foreign policy (https://www.foreignexchanges.news).
Eric A. Newman @eanewmanwriter.bsky.social Writer, movie nerd, archivist. Flash and micros in Atlas & Alice, Wigleaf, Pithead Chapel, Gargoyle Mag, Exposition Review, Quarter After Eight, & Bending Genres. Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction nominee. Founding Editor of Okay Donkey Mag. He/him
Courtney Flynn Martino @cflynnmartino.bsky.social Assistant Director of Transatlantic Relations at Bertelsmann Foundation | U.S.-Germany Researcher | Georgetown & Wake Forest Grad | New Mom
Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social Hist. gender & sexuality, Weimar Republic, LGBTQ pasts, sexual science / psychoanalysis, visual cultures, neuroqueer. German & Gender Studies, ANU. Views mine. she/they
Jules (they/them) @checkyesjules.bsky.social PhD student focusing on the experiences of U-boat crews during the Second World War. Fan of Linkin Park, emo music, and dogs. All views expressed are my own.
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science・Political sociology of class, morality, political divides・🔗 linuswestheuser.com
Just out: "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization" (BUP) 🔗 tinyurl.com/yn42x79t
Journal of the History of Sexuality @jhistsex.bsky.social Academic journal on the history of sexuality in all its expressions. Spans geographic and temporal boundaries. Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary.
https://t.co/KfX7n8lsAg
James J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social Writer, translator, reformed publisher in Berlin
Jeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social Publicist (Vesto PR) | Book Work on Substack
📪 jeremy@vestopr.com
📚 http://www.vestopr.com
✍️ https://derekkrissoff.substack.com/
Central European History Society/Central European History @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social Promoting scholarship on the region's diverse and complex history. Central European History (CEH) is the Society's journal, published by
@CUPAcademic. Editors: Ben Marschke and Jared Poley, Assoc. Editors: Eli Rubin and Michael Sauter.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social Coordinator www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc / teaching @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org & transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for www.daad-canada.ca/en/
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
Cameron Kasky @cameronkasky.bsky.social Front runner in New York’s 12th Congressional District #YesWeCam
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social Researcher-led working group at European University Institute, based in Florence, Italy. Email contact: queerwg@eui.eu 
George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social The George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Angela Zimmerman @angelazimm.bsky.social Historian of the United States, Germany, and the Atlantic world. Writing about Conjure and Communism in the U.S. Civil War. Essays and articles here: https://gwu.academia.edu/AngelaZimmerman.
Brian V @brianv234.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚academic librarian in MN, legally married to a wonderful man and parent to a fur kid, Jewish, bike commuter, scifi geek, humanities nerd
Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social Independent online & pop-up bookstore based in Manitou Springs, Colorado | Specializing in LGBTQ+ books 🐺⛰️📚
https://linkpop.com/queer
The Gaily Show @thegailyshow.org The only daily LGBTQ radio news & talk show in the US! Hosted by GLAAD Media award nominee John Parker. 2pm AM950 Radio: http://tun.in/serpH. 6pm 92.7 FM http://tun.in/seo9P 10pm WCPT 820: http://tun.in/sep74. Read: https://thegailyshow.org
The Pink Triangle Legacies Project @ptlproject.bsky.social Honoring the memory of the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ victims and fighting homophobia and transphobia today through education, empowerment, and advocacy. Learn more at pinktrianglelegacies.org
Carlos Domper Lasús @carlosdomper.bsky.social Assistant Professor (@unizar.es)
Antiliberal Narratives of Democracy and Transnational Radical Conservative Networks in the Cold War
PI: Transnational Francoism (PID2024-155891NB-C22)
PhD. LUISS (Rome) - Former RyC Research Fellow
https://shorturl.at/7oHpt
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social History editor, mostly.
Max Fox @maxfox.bsky.social 
Anna von der Este 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷 @annaeste1908.bsky.social Ex Swing 65
Ex PE
At the edge of wisdom.... Singing witch in an education world.
Head in a French high school
Perdir donc.
Die Gedanken sind frei
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Tyler the ✨𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷✨ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tyleralbertario.bsky.social LGBTQ+ historian | host "This Side of the Rainbow" podcast | 33 | bi (as in, attracted to more than one gender) | he/him | #BlackLivesMatter
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org 
Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences.
Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums
margaretmiddleton.com
Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social linguist » social scientist » privacy pro| author of Queer Roma, Routledge 2021| applied social sciences PhD| queer intersectionality| CIPM| GAC chair|multilingual| opinions mine
🏳️🌈🇧🇲🇨🇿
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7123-702X
rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social assistant professor @ Arizona State University, studying histories of feminist, queer, trans, and disability activism, proud co-parent of four cats and a spaniel
Lili-Elbe-Bibliothek @lilielbe.bsky.social Private library on trans* and inter books and films, mostly German. Researching a bit of earlier trans history. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Based in Germany.
Sandra Eder @ederummadum.bsky.social Prof @ History UC Berkeley | Director CSTMS | Author of _How the Clinic Made Gender_ http://tinyurl.com/y49m84ja | Mostly tired | posts my own | she/her/hers | My kid drew my profile picture |
George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
LGBTQ+ Editors Association @lgbtqeditors.bsky.social Are you an LGBTQIA+ editor? Join us to chat, mentor/be mentored, and network! Founded by @VeeWhite. Social media coordinator: Seeking volunteers.
Important Links: https://linktr.ee/lgbtqeditors
Sam Caslin @moderndecorum.bsky.social Historian at the Uni of Liverpool. They/she.
🏳️⚧️📚
Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research & Teaching Fellow @ UBC History
Historian of trans womanhood before the 20th C | Indigenous & colonial Western North America | 🏳️⚧️
https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
Tom Smith 🏳️🌈 @tomsmithgerman.bsky.social Lecturer, writer, mostly German and queer stuff, some radio, lots of music 🎶 he/him 🍉
Forschungsprojekt Lesbische* Lebenswelten @lesbischel.bsky.social Team: "Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit, Repression & lesbischer Emanzipation – Frauenliebende* Frauen im deutschen Südwesten 1945 bis 1980" #lesbengeschichte #HERstory
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo español. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
Katrin M. Kämpf @kmkaempf.bsky.social Sexualitätsgeschichte, Pädophiliediskurse, Queer Theory, feminist STS. #LWithTheT
Scott McKinnon @sjmckinnon.bsky.social Historian and Librarian. Author of Gay Men at The Movies (Intellect, 2016) and Co-author of Australian Queer Screens (Bloomsbury, 2026) 🏳️🌈
Colin Wilson @colinwlondon.bsky.social Queer Marxist author and activist. Based London, member rs21. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
https://revsoc21.uk/author/colinwilson/
Kate Fisher @profflyingshark.bsky.social 
LoWe @lorwein.bsky.social Wiss. Bibliothekar_ & Historiker_
UB FU Berlin - Open Research Office
Histo-Bubbel: Queer History, Geschlechter- u. Sexualitätsgeschichte
Bib-Bubbel: Bibliothek für alle, Open Science, Community Building, Inklusion in Bibliotheken, Bildungsgerechtigkeit
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
Shirleene Robinson @shirleene.bsky.social Historian, Author & Curator. Bridging academia & the GLAM sector. Oral history Always. Former @AMEquality Board Director & Co-Convenor, NSW. President Pride History Group NSW. Gadigal land. Opinions mine. She/her
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Comrade.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 殷莉 @elengebretsen.bsky.social she/they
Professor of Gender Research, based in Norway; trained in social anthropology, sinology, gender and queer studies; scholar-activist; etc. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾💚⛵️
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Lucy Rebecca Cannon @queerarchivist.bsky.social Marxist feminist, ESRC PhD on women, social reproduction and the aids crisis at Warwick university. Fan of my 3 cats, Austen & pistachio
LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social Perusing archives for LGBTQ+ History. Forever #LGBWithTheT. 
LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
History is Gay! @historyisgay.bsky.social “We’re all a little bit gay” - HS
“We were supposed to be just friends” - TS
“my husband’s husband” - Jennifer Garner
Adult. Here for conspiracies on iPhones and historical roommates.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Dr. Redfern "Red" Barrett @redfernbarrett.com Non-binary author. Stories: Colored Lens, FFO, Passages North, Nature. Non-fiction: Guernica, Strange Horizons, PinkNews. LGBTQ+ novels from Bywater.
Ambitopia evangelist.
Literature PhD. Rep'd by Jonathan Villegas of Oslwanger Lit.
redfernbarrett.com
Queer as Fact @queerasfact.bsky.social Queer history podcast with over 150 episodes presenting stories from around the world and throughout time.
https://www.queerasfact.com/
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever good pods are found.
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social Queer film historian, programmer, distributor |
@muscledistribution.bsky.social | elizabethpurchell.com
Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social Independent Transgender Historian and Freelance Researcher
Bridging the Gap Between Trans Studies and Museum Studies
https://linktr.ee/notyouraveragecistory
She/Her
Dean Leetal @deanleetal.bsky.social Phd hopeful, fandom, X-Men, Taskmaster, Staged, SPN, non binary, trans, fat, polyam, neurodivergent, queer, aroace, ceasefire now