Jason Stanford @realjasonstanford.bsky.social NYT-bestselling co-author of Forget the Alamo, Substack writer, serial public servant. Currently special asst to Dallas Superintendent. Formerly: Austin ISD, H+K, Austin Mayor’s office, Planned Parenthood, Stanford Campaigns.
Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social Time Out New York theater editor and critic, Drama Critics' Circle president, recalcitrant humanist, wiseacre. Be gentle.
Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social Theatrical designer / director / storyteller. Astrophysics enthusiast. Recovering Artistic Director. I want to design all the plays. (Except Mamet & LaBute.) he/him
also: @andrewh@mastodon.social | was hungerf9 @ bird site.
https://andrewhungerford.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social Misfit. Wordsmith. Dreamer. Rebel.
Never at home in this world, so always aspiring to make new ones with others, with love, care & solidarity.
@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social
@cindymilstein on IG
cbmilstein.wordpress.com
Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social Arts Education. Philly. I also co-host @OverduePod. He/him.
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Phillies Nation @philliesnation.bsky.social Philadelphia Phillies news, analysis, history, rumors, events, podcasts, reviews and more since 2004. PhilliesNation.com 📸: Logan Gehman
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social 🧿☂️📚🐈
Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social writer & bug enthusiast 
Bolu Babalola @beebabs.bsky.social Big B and the B stands for bodacious. Writer, Girl About Town, Purveyor of Prose & Pose. Not Here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/juicebybolubabalola/p/coming-soon?r=ajg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2026, 2025 and 2024. 👍 See upcoming events and membership options here: https://wfr.bio/peoplesbook
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social musician, arts administrator; Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
"Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social Building power of immigrant, Black, and brown communities to achieve dignity & justice. 30,000+ members. Reposts ≠ endorsements. DONATE: http://bit.ly/supportMRNY
Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall thecarryall.org
Cultural criticism, culturerover.net
The Republic of Rock (OUP, 2013), republicofrock.net
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net
Union, uupinfo.org
More, michaeljkramer.net
Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social Editor of Workday Magazine, formerly In These Times.
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social writer and artist (theater+) from upstate new york living in Philly. hobbyist permaculture orchardist. i write about performance in Philly and the American theater: playsunpleasant.substack.com
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social Runner, writer, Garden State defender. Also writer of the Notes from a Hire Pen newsletter and ebook series. She/her.
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Caroline Helstone @realcoolsolid.bsky.social This is a Cecilia Vicuña stan account. Profile pic is a detail from Leopardo de Nieve, 1969. A giant white leopard walks over mountains on a pink background; a small person stands underneath.
She/they
Philadelphia. Chronic pain. Curiosity and empathy
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social sociology prof @Tufts and Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans 
Lydia Jean @lydiajean.bsky.social Wayward geographer. Abolition. Racial Capitalism. Collective liberation. Author Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (UNC Press) and co-editor The Jail Is Everywhere (Verso). Dogs and carnival forever
Ian Alan Paul @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social This account posts automated updates from www.ianalanpaul.com
ActiveCultures @activecultures.bsky.social Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE
IG @activecultures
Also me (w/ others):
@NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC
Representing no one but me
Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social Director/writer. Maker of algorithmic theater. #MacFellow. And unexpectedly, a lawyer. anniedorsen.com
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
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.
ISEPTAPHILLY @septaphilly.bsky.social An official account of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Visit https://www.septa.org/ for service info.
Colby Chamberlain @colbychamberlain.bsky.social Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland Institute of Art | “Fluxus Administration,” UChicago Press, 2024 | Queens native, Cleveland resident | he/him
adrena j @adrenajwms.bsky.social philly dramaturg and theatre maker.
xennial. cat person. gamer.
chronic condition haver.
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.social Breakfast Sandwiches guy
taylor crumpton @taylorcrumpton.bsky.social writer, journalist, and soon to be author. ideas columnist @ time. texas forever, chicago for now. words in npr, bloomberg opinion, essence, marie claire, the daily beast, and more.
she/they | taylorcrumpton.com
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.
Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social Professor of Dance, PhD, MFA
Author: Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies (Routledge); Shapes of American Ballet (Oxford). Posts on: pedagogies, ballet, higher ed, other sundries. Views are my own.
https://linktr.ee/jessicazeller
Anne Ishii @ill-iterate.com My thoughts reflect nothing for no one. Not even sunlight. PHL<<NYC<<LA<<JPN<<KOR
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Jen Chaney @jenchaney.bsky.social Current: TV and film critic free agent. Former: Vulture, WashPost. Prev bylines: NYT, Vanity Fair, others. Literally wrote the book on Clueless.
m @micdwy.bsky.social beach praxis
michaeladwyer.com
@alexripp.bsky.social @alexripp.bsky.social Arts administrator, producer, dramaturg, apple connoisseur, keeper of small humans.
Joanna @joannafurn.bsky.social Dance artist, ED, financial planner for the resistance. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏽🫶🏾☕️🏋️♀️🩶💚
American Theatre @americantheatre.org The national magazine for the American professional not-for-profit theatre. Subscribe at http://americantheatre.org/join
Luke Knox @lukeknox.me Creative Director, ESPN Visual Storytelling
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social Your critic and co-listener // ex-Washington Post // reccos/rants/prayers/curses at thefutureisourstomake.substack.com // contact me: christopherpaulrichards at proton dot me
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social Bibliophile, perpetual grad student. Fan of democracy, cats, and the Oxford comma. Episcopalian, but not great at it. Foxes over hedgehogs.
Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
Philadelphia Magazine @phillymag.com The latest news, guides, and opinion from Philadelphia magazine.
phillymag.com
Zac Whittenburg @trailerpilot.bsky.social Stockholmer, cyclist, grantmaker, shutterbug, writer, and a few other things. Posts are mine alone, he / him, reskeet ≠ “I think”
Propriety @proprietous.bsky.social Engineer, Morosoph, Polymath, Pogonophile
Philadelphia Maneto
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
Jon Geeting @jongeeting.bsky.social Fishtown dad, urbanist, writer, connector. Policy and Advocacy director at Build Philly Now. Co-founder @5thsq
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Hrishikesh Hirway @hrishikesh.co ‘In the Last Hour of Light,’ my new album, is here: https://lnk.to/inthelasthouroflight
Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social Art Critic Futurist 🧬 Editor-at-large, cofounder of @Hyperallergic.com 🗽 Aleppo born, Toronto raised, Brooklyn based w/ @veken.bsky.social
I tweet about art and politics because art doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Asha Prihar @ashaprihar.bsky.social I write newsletters & stories about Pennsylvania for @spotlightpa.org | formerly: Billy Penn/WHYY, City Cast Philly
@drwease.bsky.social @drwease.bsky.social 
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social chief art critic at CULTURED Magazine, musician at LE TIGRE
https://buttondown.com/johannafateman
Paddy Johnson @paddyjohnson.bsky.social Artist coach, writer, lover of art and cats
Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social "Elegante y muy cabrona."
I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.
https://c-monster.org
https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
Barry Threw @barrythrew.com ◢👁️◣ Executive & Artistic Director @grayarea.org
Tina Rivers Ryan @tinariversryan.bsky.social Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Helen Shaw @helenshaw.bsky.social Theater critic at the New York Times. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
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.
Janneken @janneken.org historian, author, Philadelphia committeeperson in Ward 18. janneken.org. A New Deal for Quilts https://linktr.ee/janneken
Bikemamadelphia @denadriscoll.bsky.social Here for public goods | #cities, #transit, #education, #35mmfilm, #cats, #biking | @pubintlawctr | She/Her | Tweets are mine
Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social Columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer (aka jawnalist) covering what makes Philly weird, wild and wonderfully unique. I fight for Philly's honor against its haters. 
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social Editor of American Theatre magazine, musical omnivore. trainmyear.blogspot.com
Lauren Rinaldi @laurenrinaldi.bsky.social 📍Philadelphia
Artist | Mom | Democratic Ward Leader
LaurenRinaldi.com
◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social Writer and editor for @Bloomberg @CityLab. Texan. Chili purist.
📸: @kriston_capps
💌: kcapps3@bloomberg.net
🔒: @kristoncapps.33
📰: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/citylab-design-edition
Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social executive editor @phillymag.com // THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN (2021) // First person to win a Presidential Fitness Award and National Magazine Award (maybe)
Jenna Kuerzi @lessthanamuffin.bsky.social An actor, a singer, a candlestick maker. "Hollywood" "Bad Boi." “You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.” #insulin4all
Civic Grit @civicgrit.bsky.social Urbanist and Philadelphia fan.
Lauren Halvorsen @halvorsen.bsky.social dramaturg & writer of newsletters
washington, dc
she/her
nothingforthegroup.com
5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org Grassroots urbanist organizers working towards a more accessible, sustainable, and equitable Philadelphia.
Weekly Newsletter: https://www.5thsqadvocacy.org/subscribe
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
Lily Janiak @lilyjaniak.bsky.social San Francisco Chronicle theater critic, wheelwoman, How can there be any sin in sincere? https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/lily-janiak/