angelina mazza @angejmazza.bsky.social culture writer & romance critic. brooklyn by way of montreal 🌈
DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social Educator, intellectual freedom advocate, scholar, reader, writer, and lyricist. I knit, garden, and cook for instant gratification. Professor in title. Michigan expat in Texas. Typos make it bespoke. (Skeets my own.)
Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
Amara Royce @aroyce.bsky.social She/her- Historical romance author - obsessed with Victorian history and culture(s) - Filipina American - never enough books, chocolate, or whiskey
Fated Mates @fatedmates.net A romance recommendation machine and podcast.
Discover your next favorite romance novel
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tri-Sarah-tops @sarahndipity.bsky.social •lazy doomsday cult leader
•winner of the 2024 church chili cook-off
•spooky vibes, thick thighs
•Official Minnesotan®️
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•Cryptid enthusiast
•Genderqueer enby they/them
•in my 30s or 40s
•Nurse (LPN), mama, partner
Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social Gothic novelist. Ghost-filled non-fiction. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. RAVENFIELD HALL (2/27, Hachette) A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social I read, I craft, I rabblerouse, I don't blindly follow back. I block with abandon.
I don't look like Rita Hayworth.
I blog at https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/
She/her, cis.
pheebs @clitullus.bsky.social green and sweet, but with a taste for salt
https://linktr.ee/phebewrites
kirby @bookguy.bsky.social 28, they/them, was there now i am here, phd candidate in communication, romance media connoisseur
kirbyphillips.substack.com
Weekend Reader @weekendreader.bsky.social Reader, reviewer, blogger
Kit Author @kitauthor.com Wild Spirit Storyteller. Butch Enby. Sacred Herd & Flock Tender
EponaAuthorSolutions.com (Author Tech)
KitAuthor.com (#fantasy, #equestrian lit)
FeathermaneSoul.com (#neurodivergent/#queer grief & spiritual support)
PetGriefPathfinder.com (pet loss grief)
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social she/her; not your lawyer, not your romance novel heroine
Reformed Rakes @reformedrakes.bsky.social A historical romance podcast steeped in dissipation.
Eden Appiah-Kubi @edenawrites.bsky.social Author specializing in Blerdy heroines & HEAs.
Here to do good and make friends. My therapist thinks I'm funny.
My books make great gifts!
THE BENNET WOMEN
HER OWN HAPPINESS
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#booksky #blackbooksky #author #romancelandia
Book Thingo @bookthingo.bsky.social Romance book reader. Lapsed blogger and podcaster.
Micro reviews: https://www.instagram.com/bookthingo
Podcast: https://bookthingo.libsyn.com/
Hannah Hearts Things @hannahheartsthings.bsky.social books, k&cdramas, mental health. you know, things. trying out this bsky thing.
Lovestruck Books @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social 💘Cambridge's first-of-its-kind romance bookstore!
📚 10a-9p Sun-Wed | 10a-10p Thurs-Sat
☕️ Café 7:30a-4p
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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @gronlp.bsky.social
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Kimberly Lemming @kimberlylemming.bsky.social Hallmark meets bloodshed
|USA Today Best Selling Fantasy Romance Author |33| she/her| Repped by
@millercallihan
https://linktr.ee/KimberlyLemming
@kennedyryan.bsky.social @kennedyryan.bsky.social NYT Bestseller. TV Producer. Wife. Mom. Happily Ever Afters Apologist.
https://linktr.ee/kennedyryan1
Kelsey K Davenport (She/Her) @kkdavenportauthor.bsky.social Kelsey K Davenport|Author|Cat Lady|Poli Sci Nerd
✍️Working on my debut, a Prohibition-era Romance
#abolishice
💪#breastcancersurvivor
🏳️🌈#bipride
#blm
🚫AI
Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social Writer. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Previously at Vox, other bylines at The Toast and The AV Club. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
Meredith @mcbryson.bsky.social childless cat lady, proprietress of Peach Basket Books, Tar Heel
Laura J. Mayo @thatlaurajmayo.bsky.social Fantasy Author. How to Summon a Fairy Godmother OUT NOW! from Orbit Works! Rep: Weaver Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/thatlaurajmayo
Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social Writer of thrillers, romance, and more! Next release: IT TAKES A VILLAGE (Wildthorn): February 9, 2027.
Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social Bestselling Award-Winning Adult and YA Romance Author.
YA: SUMMER OFFICIAL now! 🛹🩵🍦| Adult: THE TWELVE LOVES OF CHRISTMAS 9.29.26 ♥️🎅🏾
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Twelve-Loves-of-Christmas/Alexandria-Bellefleur/9781668250419
Celestine Martin @celestinemartin.bsky.social *Pen Name* Writer of Romance. She/Her. Whimsigoth in Training *Tweeting W/O Glasses* Repped by @lauren_bieker
Former @jellybeanrae on x-tweeter
Order Link: http://bit.ly/3IbQxR0
Dry Lipstick & Shit @shadesnpages.bsky.social 📍OKC
Book Fanatic|Romance DIVA
Lipstick Addict
🇧🇸♏️
Shadesnpages@gmail.com
Jae 🏳️🌈 @jaeauthor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Author of sapphic romance | Queer | She/her | Avid reader | Ice cream & fountain pen aficionado. | Website: https://jae-fiction.com | Newsletter: https://jae-fiction.com/newsletter/
Julie Anne Long @julieannelong.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author of Pennyroyal Green and Palace of Rogues series of historical romances and the Hellcat Canyon series of contemporaries. Here for books, nature, science, animals, music, art and friends.
D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social She/her fat black queer, disabled femme, leftist in my 30s, sometimes publicly slutty, sometimes publicly depressed. I talk about food and books a lot and I try to be kind. 
Julia Kent @jkentauthor.bsky.social New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedy with an edge. Former history and government professor and higher education runaway. I have more fun making up stories than fighting deans. Immunocompromised mom to medically complex kids.
Sandra Schwab @scribblingsandy.bsky.social Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a very large library. Expert on dragons & PUNCH. Writes stories with happy endings and loves her caravan Miss Hetty. 🌈 She / her.
Newsletter: https://sandraschwab.eo.page/newsletter
Amivi⁷ 🇹🇬 🧡🤍💖 @amivireads.bsky.social 26, lesbian who talks mostly about sapphic books or bts and on my fitness journey 💜 60k on tiktok| email for business inquiries amivireads@gmail.com
https://beacons.ai/amivireads
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶
https://linktr.ee/measuredandslow
Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social Queer Punjabi-American artist, writer and book lover. Ecstatic purveyor of joy and jewelry at Adorned by Shivani!
https://www.adornedbyshivani.com
Proud Romancing the Vote minion.
Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social Romance reader/writer. She/her. jackielaubooks.com
adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social Fan of Jane Austen & Gaskell’s North & South. ✨ fanfic writer ✨ English M.A. ✨ scarnash✨ https://linktr.ee/barelytolerable
ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social Writer✨ Essayist. Disability Justice advocate. Thought-haver. Covid competent. Best of The Net Nominee & Aurealis shortlister🤯
Shrek Scholar 👑
Verbing at Scylla Publishing
💖 https://linktr.ee/ellatholmes
SheReadHeSaid @shereadhesaid.bsky.social A book nerd and a theater geek living their HEA amidst the flurry and chaos of all the usual nonsense. We’re here for the romance. (she/her & he/him)
Melanie/Mel @melonreads.bsky.social Romance reader, reviews @ Smexybooks.com, leaning enthusiast, these mashed potatoes are so creamy, she/her
Eliot @eliotedits.bsky.social Editor, educator, word nerd with a specialty in inclusive language and storytelling and a big love for romance fiction. (Maybe I can help you with your writing! https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/) Joy matters too 💖🌈
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Joanne Knowles @joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Jill Ashley-Jones @jilly52.bsky.social Married Boomer, Cat & nature lover ( bit witchy) Chelsea FC fan,Retired NHS , Pro EU, anti Rightwing politicos,
Sarah Scheidmantel @panisarunia.bsky.social she/her | postdoc @unibe.ch | cultural scientist, historian of medicine | history of gender, tech, consumerism, food. 20th century. women and vibrators. feminist.
UZH-Alumna
TU Berlin-Alumna
Bauhaus-Uni-Alumna
Sara | Bodice Tipplers Podcast @bodicetipplers.bsky.social A podcast where we read all the books we used to steal off our grandmothers’ nightstands! Wherever you get your podcasts or bodicetipplers.com. She/her. 
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
Lorna P. Farnell @lpfarnell.bsky.social 
Anna Dżabagina @annadzabagina.bsky.social PhD, assistant prof. at the University of Warsaw, Visiting Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University || women's writing/ lesbian & queer studies/Slavic lit - currently writing a book on Sapphic Modernism in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian literature 🌈
Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social Professor, Historian, Author of A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Her Own Hero: Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement; Children of Chinatown, 1850-1920, History Teacher Prep, (she/her) #WomensHistory #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈 🗃️
WendyLRouse.com
Adriana Amaral @adriamaral.bsky.social Professor & Researcher on pop culture, digital media, and fan studies at UFF. Editor at Routledge and at Creative & Influencer Studies. Childless Cat Lady. Spooky Nerd. Goth.
https://adriamaral.substack.com/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-2352
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
Katie Hemphill @kmhemphill.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. 
Holly Grout @playingcleo.bsky.social Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered. All views expressed are my own.
Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
Katherine Angel @katherineangel.bsky.social Writer and psychoanalyst. POOR FREUD is my next book (Verso/Norton). TOMORROW SEX WILL BE GOOD AGAIN / DADDY ISSUES / UNMASTERED are my previous books.
@DramaMen @dramamen.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain from 18th-21stc; Expert on masculinity; sexual violence; British Period Drama; TV/Media Studies; Public Historian; Royal Family expert; environmental activist; visit me at julieannetaddeo.com for more. Views all my own.
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com they/m | brimwats.com | PhD., etc. | UWOFA strong
professing @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
🔗 Homosaurus.org HistSex.org CritCat.org NCPWG.org QMDC & TMDC
Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology @anthrodesires.bsky.social Working Group within the German Anthropological Association
Blog AnthroDesires: https://anthrodes.hypotheses.org/
UCD Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social Gender Studies at UCD | Interdisciplinary MA in Gender Studies | programmes, news, events | RT is not an endorsement. https://www.ucd.ie/genderstudies/
Jessica Van Meir @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social
This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Maayan Aner @maayana.bsky.social DPhil student at the University of Oxford | Early modern queer history | Bi | NB | she/they | Nationalism is poison | organiser of queer history events at hflgbtq.bsky.social
Georgie Williams 🇿🇦🏴🏳️🌈(they/them) @slashqueer.bsky.social Founder of /Queer, archiving gender & sexuality oral histories from cultures around the 🌏 - Gender & Sexuality specialist - deferred Social Justice PhD student @ucddublin- Dirty tallship sailor ⚓️
🔗 https://linktr.ee/slashqueer
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
kai says no to AI @adotkedits.blacksky.app hi, i'm kai. freelance copyeditor, comma queen, em-dash enthusiast, drive-by spellchecker. cheerleader of your words of romance and more, the hotter the better. she/her. Black. African. pan+demi.
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