Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social Former bookstore owner, current university press book guy. Writer of things, mostly comics. Always open for freelancing. He/Him.
shaunmanning.com
Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social Queer historian and professor at Rutgers-Newark. New book OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY coming Oct 2026. Preorder links here: www.timsw.com/outed
David K Johnson @gayhistoryprof.bsky.social Historian and author of THE LAVENDER SCARE (Chicago, 2004) and BUYING GAY (Columbia, 2019). Working behind enemy lines in the "Free State" of Florida. 
Dr. Kelsey J. Utne @kelseyutne.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History | Prison Educator | South Asia, Death, Digital Humanities, Heritage, Maps, Medicine | she/her 
@ianfleishman.bsky.social @ianfleishman.bsky.social 
Maggie Gram @maggiegram.bsky.social Designer & cultural historian. I work at Google and belong to the Alphabet Workers Union. Out June ‘25 from Basic Books, The Invention of Design:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/maggie-gram/the-invention-of-design/9781541600645
Andrea Friedman @andreafriedman.bsky.social Queer mom of two; retired professor of history & women, gender, & sexuality studies; Developmental editor/academic coach/fan of Taos NM 
Bess W @besswww.bsky.social Design historian, author of Accessible Design: A History of Disability + Design
North Carolina based but will travel for meager honorarium
Sean Corcoran @seanc1974.bsky.social 
becky laughner @blaughner.bsky.social arts organizer in nyc, making exhibitions at the new york public library 🖼️ & beach bum 🏖️ (she / her)
differences @differences.bsky.social a journal of feminist cultural studies | https://differencesjournal.org
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
David Pettinicchio @dnpetti.bsky.social Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social “A great contrast to the usual magazine.”
—Virginia Woolf
Join a conversation 200 years in the making.
https://yalereview.org/
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
James Polchin @jamespolchin.bsky.social Edgar Award nominated writer / INDECENT ADVANCES (2019) / SHADOW MEN (2024) both with Counterpoint Press / NYU Professor / Footman to a Labrador
Ellen Umansky @ellenumansky.bsky.social Author of The Fortunate Ones.
Writer, teacher, worrier.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Daniel LaChance @dwlachance.bsky.social Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, citizenship & statelessness, Modern & Eastern Europe. Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of History and Human Rights Institute. Views my own.
Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Coming Sept. 2026: Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, baseball, jazz. DC resident.
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
José Vergara @josevergara.bsky.social Writes about things: Russian lit, Joycean links, prisons, PTA, weird books, Chornobyl, other passions (and whims). Teaches at Bryn Mawr College. Tends to ducks.
Kyle Miron @kylemiron.bsky.social phd candidate • university of wisconsin madison • historian of WWI, medicine, girl delinquency • they/them
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social Feminist historian, dog-mom, book-lover, queer academic. She/her. Author of “Matters of Sex: Katharine Bement Davis and America’s First Sexual Revolution” (NYU Press 2026). More at anyajabour.com.
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social Art Historian. Etc.
The World Atlas of Public Art (Yale University Press, 2024) now available: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272581/the-world-atlas-of-public-art/
Kathryn Cramer Brownell @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social Professor & Director of the Center for American Political History & Technology at Purdue University; Author of 24/7 Politics & Showbiz Politics; Senior Editor of Made By History
Julio Capó Jr. @juliocapojr.bsky.social Queer/Latinx/race/migration history prof at FIU. Also public history & humanities. Wrote #WelcomeToFairyland. Curated #QueerMiami, #Zorita & other exhibitions. An editor of Made By History section in TIME. Opinions my own. He/él.
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social UNC History PhD candidate. Historian of gay rights activism and lesbian-feminism, student activism in the gay liberation era, and the 1970s South. NC born/raised/now. he/him ⚣
One Institute @oneinstitute.org Founded in 1952, One Institute is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the United States. Formerly ONE Archives Foundation.
Shelby McKelvey-Petro, PhD @shelbywhippetphd.bsky.social queer disability animal historian. future Guggenheim recipient. famously has "the hips of a six year old" (i'm 77). the most popular academic whippet account you've never heard of. 
LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social The world's largest dedicated social sciences blogging platform hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Explore our website 🖥 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
Subscribe to our newsletter 📬 http://eepurl.com/iwXSu-/
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
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
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
Zavier Nunn @zaviernunn.bsky.social Historian changing sex. Assistant Professor @ Northwestern University. Ex-mulleteer.
Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places.
Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023).
he/him.
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.
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
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
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies @jcasonline.bsky.social The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies is a peer-reviewed, #openaccess journal sponsored by Yale University Library and New England Archivists.
National Book Foundation @nationalbook.bsky.social National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. 
ProfessorMeredith @professormeredith.bsky.social Historian, writer, and podcaster blending humor and insight. Host of Bitchy History, where irreverence meets historical deep dives. Author of a forthcoming book exploring 1950s media and its impact on American politics and culture.
Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social Writer, music usually. Substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc. 
Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Professor at NYU. Author most recently of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
Kelly S. O'Donnell @kellyodonn.bsky.social History person. Clover’s dog mom. ☘️ Definitely not that journalist of the same name, so I am begging you please don't @ me.
Jane Simon @janesimon.bsky.social Researcher/writer/maker
Photography, film, photobooks, domestic, home, photographic theory and history, visual studies. https://www.routledge.com/The-Domestic-Interior-and-the-Self-in-Contemporary-Photography/Simon/p/book/9780367543402
Sarah Seidman @sjseidman.bsky.social Historian & curator NYC. Political histories, graphics, solidarity.
Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at Museum of the City of New York. she/her
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Emi Donald @emithemole.bsky.social History, Southeast Asia, Gender Studies. I'm currently PhDing at ezra's upstate school for ambitious boys.
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.- A @alefkovi.bsky.social @alefkovi.bsky.social Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation. Views are my own.
Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social Law prof teaching human rights, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 25. ⚖️ 🏳️🌈 🏃
Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social historian of Cold War social movements and the U.S. military | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
Samuel Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
John Anderies @cccamac.bsky.social Director of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center. Coloradan in Philly. Pie baker. Married to @riversaredamp.bsky.social (He/him/his)
Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social - Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com)
- Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023)
- Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University
- Collects your old technology junk and cats.
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
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social Author of FIERCE DESIRES: A NEW HISTORY OF SEX AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICA, publisher of the Carnal Knowledge newsletter, and co-host of This Is Probably a Really Weird Question, a podcast about sexual health and history. 
oren falk @orenfalk.bsky.social 🇮🇱🇵🇸 medieval cultural history, esp. Norse. wake up. brush teeth. sagas. rinse. repeat. not necessarily in that order.
Corey McEleney @cmceleney.bsky.social Professor of English @ Fordham // he/him
Michael D. Snediker @mdsnediker.bsky.social Professor of American Lit & Poetics at the University of Houston; Emersonian/Thoreauvian/Dickinsonian/Jamesian; author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment (U.Minnesota Press), Jones Very (Ornithopter Press), &c. 
Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social Journalist | Historian | Master of Disguise | Cultural history & more | If I share it, I've read it. I block generic resistance accounts. RT = food for thought.
Louis Staples @louisstaples.bsky.social Journalist: The Guardian, New York Times, NYMag, BBC, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone.
Rep'd by United Agents 📚
✉️: louis-staples@hotmail.com
Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more. 
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Juno Richards @junorichards.bsky.social literature and gender studies professor / dog person 
Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social Author of Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now: Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Public Humanities Project - available from U of Iowa Press. https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/baltimores-black-arts-then-now
Anti-ICE activist in NJ. Diehard sewist.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com .
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755