scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Vesper Sparrow @vespersparrow.bsky.social 🏴 punamu’kwati’jk / dartmouth
printmaker; mirthful wretch; for the freaks
CKCU FM @ckcufm.bsky.social Ottawa's independent radio station. Uniting people, culture, and communities for 50 years.
www.ckcufm.com/donate
#TeamCKCU #CommunityRadio #IndependentMedia
Susan Johnston @joycuriosity.bsky.social Creativity | Dialogue and civic engagement | Community resilience | Arts and coffee Friday mornings @ CKCUFM.com
Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca Punk planner and anarchitect | Housing justice, radical planning, and community care | Adjunct Prof, University of Ottawa | Contact instructor, Carleton U | firstgen scholar | tenant | bassist | she/her
Ottawa, Canada
previously @sbg_arch on 🐦
Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Research immigrant klezmer musician families, compositions & social organizations, Indonesian left-wing history, etc. History MA UBC 2019. Wikipedia editor. Posts about Cdnpoli/Vanpoli
scruss @scruss.bsky.social aka Stewart Russell: hairy old Scottish nerdy git living in Toronto
Scribble the Lamp @sybillamb.bsky.social SYBILLAMB.COM
Jeff Dupuis @jeffdupuis.bsky.social Writer, editor, hiker. Author of the Creature X Mysteries from Dundurn Press.
the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse #momlife #pinball #retroarcade #eremeka #artbooks #canqueer #antifascist #djmixes
https://linktr.ee/thetastates
she/her
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social The premier literary website focused on debut and emerging writers. There’s also a podcast sometimes. Founded by Adam Vitcavage.
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
vanna orecchio @vannaorecchio.bsky.social real housewives scholar. lying dog-faced pony soldier. municipal politics enjoyer. long suffering mariners fan.
📍🌃 MST Territories
RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER (2025) THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN (2017) contact: rmccarthyjames at gmail
Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social Human, author. Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (@pressassembly.bsky.social). The Diapause (novel), McCurdle's Arm (novella) (@invisibooks.bsky.social). #SABR (Hanlan's Pt). He/him.
📍Peterborough, Ontario
linktr.ee/andrewgforbes
Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social Tenant organizer/housing policy analyst, parent, PhD student, writer. Likes: literature, feminism, comic books, decolonization, crime fiction. Winnipeg, Treaty 1.
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
Meredith Bak @meredithbak.bsky.social Asso. Prof. of Childhood Studies
Film History | Toys | Media Archaeology
www.meredithabak.com
https://ninthletter.com/journal/volume-21-issue-01/
Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball (Bucs),and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.
Lezlie Lowe ~ lezlielowe.com @lezlielowe.bsky.social Writer/speaker/strategist/editor/instructor/researcher. A ray of sunshine with occasional dry lightning. She/her. lezlielowe.com
@kingsjournalism @translitagency
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
ⓘ this user is woke
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Devil’s Picnic, Lost Supper
Feature writer - Globe + Mail | Columnist - L'actualité
Talks: http://taras-grescoe.com/contact
Newsletter: https://www.highspeed.blog
IG: https://www.instagram.com/taras.rides.trains/
Spencer Krug @spencerkrug.bsky.social music: Spencer Krug, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Moonface, Swan Lake
label: Pronounced Kroog
booking: First Date Touring
linktr.ee/SpencerKrug
Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social Poet, novelist, critic, leftist & co-founder of MA|DE. Poetry collection The Work Is Done When We Are Dead (Guernica 26), novel ANOMIA (Palimpsest 24), collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest 25). 🌈 https://jadewallace.a
Claire Foster @claire-foster.bsky.social literary translator from French (of Pierre Clémenti’s A FEW PERSONAL MESSAGES, Small Press) / bookseller & manager @ Type Books, Toronto
clairefoster.com
Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com Music journalist. Co-author of In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World (House of Anansi Press). Bylines in Exclaim, Bandcamp, Premier Guitar + more. Name rhymes with bible. (he/him)
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
CUPE 3912 @cupe3912.bsky.social Representing over 5000 precarious academic workers in 5 bargaining units at Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University, NSCAD University, and Saint Mary's University.
cupe3912.ca
Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social An independent Halifax city hall newspaper. An actual paper. Available weekly on Mondays, starting May 5, 2025. Check us out online at www.grandparade.news
long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social longconmag.com: canadian magazine for art replying to art
ISSUE 2.6: submit by Sept 30
Montebank Prize: enter by Sept 30
Banner artist: Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com)
longconmag.com/collusionbooks: canadian micro-press for collaborative poetry
Karen Czap @charmgardens.com Cartoonist, X-Men Fan, Sunfly Believer, Tall Cool Vulnerable & Luscious, FFG, Greatest of All Taurus (*they*)
🌸🌷🌼
https://linktr.ee/charmgardens
So and so @rainerfloo.bsky.social weak landspout tornado ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Matthew Hollett @matthewhollett.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, photographer, walker
👁️ Optic Nerve (poems) published by Brick Books
🦑 Newfoundland / Ktaqmkuk
Factsheet Five Archive Project @f5archive.bsky.social Exploring the history of zines, comics, anarchism, sci-fi, the occult, & other weirdness via the pages, letters, ftps, & BBSes of Factsheet Five. f5archive.org. Also on IG.
Miriam Toews @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian author known for poignant, witty novels on family, faith, and mental health.
Safron Isaac Robin @skeletonhouse.bsky.social (she/they) uk-based Comics & Illustration. • PORTFOLIO: isaacrobin.co.uk • buy my comics at https://skeletonhouse.itch.io • READ WITCH TRADE http://witchtrade.co.uk • did concept art for http://getinthecarloser.com • http://skeletonhouse.tumblr.com
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Steve Sladkowski @sladkow.bsky.social here we go again // PUPTHEBAND // Toronto, ON
Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social Hong Kong / Halifax, urban & transportation things
Adrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social Prof. @JSchool_CU. Member: @CABJMedia
@CAJ, @NABJ, @jhrnews, @writerstrust, @uottawapress, @ thenarwhalca, ex-Anchor @CBCOttawa @6
Email: adrianharewood70@gmail.com
Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social Writer, Toronto. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022) https://www.jason-mcbride.com/
Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social Health Promotion Prof @dalhousie.bsky.social. UK export in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Pop health, climate anxiety, safe streets. Volunteer with @velocanadabikes.bsky.social, @visionzerokh.bsky.social, @urbantruth.bsky.social. She/her. Views are my own
Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social • Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social Eisner Award winning writer & drawer of comics. Exhausted Canadian, here to talk about Star Trek, Dragon Age & other things that I love. My cat's name is Maple.
www.faitherinhicks.com
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
@moonsocket.bsky.social @moonsocket.bsky.social 
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social Progressive politics, ideas & culture.
this.org
x.com/thismagazine
linkedin.com/company/this-magazine/
Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social She/they. Sometimes I do conceptual art. Sometimes I don't. Gangster pastor, allegedly.
"The only way that we, the small and the ordinary, might survive in any decent way, is if we learn to take care of each other."
Radio-Canada @iciradiocanada.bsky.social Compte officiel de Radio-Canada. Suivez les annonces de programmations et les activités du radiodiffuseur public. 
Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com Running for reelection as City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Let’s build it together. 🏳️🌈
Mike Miller @mykolos.bsky.social 
John R. Davis @jrdarchivist.bsky.social Archivist, musician, curator, writer, DJ on WOWD
My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, D.C.", is out now:
https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Your-Ear-to-the-Ground
Anne Elizabeth Moore @anneelizabethmoore.bsky.social Eisner-winning, Lambda-nominated author of BODY HORROR, GENTRIFIER, SWEET LITTLE CUNT, and UNMARKETABLE and host of the true-crime audio series MY INEVITABLE MURDER. Runs a hot sauce concern for "fun." SVA Faculty.
QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social LGBTQ+ zines, comics and print ephemera; queer history; queer arts; queercore subculture, zine librarianship, archives, and overall community building through storytelling and zucchini waffles.
🖥️ https://qzap.org
📚 https://archive.qzap.org
amanda.bowden @asbowden.bsky.social (she/her/elle) punky mom & phd(c)- critical school psych: CRT/queer theory/DisCrit/ liberationpsych/CPAR/YPAR. white settler living in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki.
🍉🏳️⚧️
Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social Poet. Yukoner. Knitter. Book hoarder. Author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Reviewing older books alongside new stuff at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
See what's new at akpress.org!
Quimby's Bookstore @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social The world’s leading purveyor of zines and author and artist produced publications! Open every day 12-7! 1854 North Ave, Chicago! We print books, zines & comics!
https://linktr.ee/QuimbysBookstore
Ser Brunetto @serbrunetto.bsky.social Zine du jour
https://www.librarything.com/catalog/ArtistsBooksandZines
Cindy Crabb @cindycrabb.bsky.social Author of Doris zine, trauma therapist
Constellation @constellationfest.bsky.social 🗓️ May 14-20, 2026
📍Montréal
💌 info@constellationmtl.net
💬 @constellation.2026 on Signal
💻 https://constellationmtl.net
Christina Wong @itscmwong.bsky.social Playwright | Writer | Audio Artist
PhD in Music
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Debut book DENISON AVENUE (ECW Press, 2023) by Daniel Innes and I out now!
Mélikah Abdelmoumen @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social Autrice / Writer
Québec, Canada
📸 Melania Avanzato
Andy Cush @cushac.bsky.social musician, writer, editor
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
UBC Creative Writing @ubccrwr.bsky.social UBC's School of Creative Writing strives to create a dynamic and inclusive environment that encourages artistic experimentation and community building for our students and alumni.
News, Events & Achievements: https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/news-events
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social Writer, teacher, pizza eater. Author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone (S&S). Creative Writing faculty at The University of British Columbia. Appalachian. she/her
https://www.mandylencatron.substack.com
@robyndoolittle.bsky.social @robyndoolittle.bsky.social 
Mitz Takahashi @mitzdad.bsky.social Furniture design/production
Coral Short @coralshort.bsky.social ✨Somatic Experiencing✨
🌻 Community Gardener
🪷 Meditation Teacher
🕸️ Weaver of Worlds
🌲 Nature Lover
🏳️⚧️ Non-Binary
🪡 Art Maker
@bbkettt.bsky.social @bbkettt.bsky.social 
Eightyaday @eightyaday.bsky.social Montréal based artist and illustrator
Liker and disliker of different stuff
CJ (he/him) @manmadezines.bsky.social UK-based queer transmasc zinester making trash goblin art
Check out my zines at: https://www.andromedazines.co.uk/zinesshop
Get digital zines at: https://manmadezines.itch.io/
Check out my store: https://ko-fi.com/manmadezines
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
haley mlotek @haleymelodic.bsky.social it’s pronounced melodic
www.haleymlotek.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612168/no-fault-by-haley-mlotek/
Jé Wilson @jewilsn.bsky.social ânesse
https://parrotje.tumblr.com/essays
Inkwell Modern Handmade @inkwellboutique.bsky.social woman-owned, independent giftshop & letterpress studio
💖 made with love to delight & inspire
Established 2011 🇨🇦
1453 South Park Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2L1
Jon Claytor @jon-claytor-art.bsky.social Author of Take The Long Way Home on Conundrum Press
Jonclaytor.com
Stephanie Domet @stephaniedomet.bsky.social Writer, recovering journalist, co-founder of AfterWords Literary Festival. In Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki. I sew my wardrobe and will meet you at the farmers’ market if you’re lucky.
Cole Pauls @tundrawizard.bsky.social Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan Comic Artist and author of Dakwäkãda Warriors, Pizza Punks, Kwändür & We See Stars Only At Night (Published by Conundrum Press)
Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social Health & Transformative Justice
Radical pedagogy & creative methods
Sociology Prof.
Suburban Dad.
www.ourpublicsafety.ca
www.imaginingfutures.ca
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love
Sal Sawler @salsawler.bsky.social Author | Book Reviewer | Teacher
Books: Written and illustrated by humans.
Posts: Do not represent my employer.
Semiotexte @semiotexte.bsky.social Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
https://www.semiotexte.com
Norman Nawrocki @normannawrocki.bsky.social Anarchist, author, playwright, musician, actor, educator, rabble rouser. Creative resistance & butterflies forever.
https://linktr.ee/normannawrocki
https://normannawrocki.blogspot
https://www.youtube.com/@NormanNawrockiNN
linus booth @linusbooth.bsky.social 
Sappyfest @sappyfest.bsky.social Spreading swamp magic since 2006!
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sappyfest this summer in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Aug 1 - 3, 2025
Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person
Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
STEVE LAM @stevelam.bsky.social 2 fangs 2 furious
https://hostileplanet.bandcamp.com
Steve Sidoli @stevesidoli.bsky.social Telephone Explosion // Uh Huh
Rachel @rachelcinema.bsky.social Rêveuse urbaine. Humaniste. Gourmande. Montréal à pied, à vélo. Ville à échelle humaine. Urbanisme. Architecture. Mobilité durable et structurante. Environnement. Livres et films.
erik ruin @erikruin.bsky.social Artist, worker, Philly
Moving towards the horizontal
Erikruin.info
Jeremiah Bullied @jeremiahbullied.bsky.social Chef, dad, musician, gardening/permaculture nerd.
a.l. @lakeswimming.bsky.social printmaker, cultural worker/arts admin, cranky old hag. 780 via 416. hashtag zines, punk, queer. 🍉🏴
@anniebananas.bsky.social @anniebananas.bsky.social I’m just here for the dogs
Matthias Rauch @matthiasrauch.bsky.social head of cluster creative economy at City of Mannheim, urbanist, cultural innovator, placemaker, nighttime advocate, keynote speaker, cultural critic, dad. Not in that order. Private account.
Leesa Dean @leesadean.bsky.social Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
Heather Sinclair @heather-sinclair.bsky.social