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Solo RPGs & indie TTRPGs, megacorp-free.
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Milwaukee + online
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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social Historian of medieval Italy; dad; cook; hockey fan, Michigander living in Iowa. Speaking solely for myself.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0656-9110
Jess @jesspearce.bsky.social Interested in public policy, public health, planetary health, risk, philosophy, and ethics.
Living with long covid since 2022.
Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com Online shop dedicated to supporting inclusion and creativity in the tabletop roleplaying community
Visit our TTRPG vending machine at TPK Brewing Co PDX, OR
💫Just 2 people trying to sell bits of paper that help you imagine💫
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Emily Lim Rogers @elimrogers.bsky.social anthropologist working on biomedicine/debility/capital. she/her dog dad 🇵🇸
not really on here but i guess am?? Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness now out through Duke UP
emilylimrogers.com
Rei Magosaki @rmagosaki.bsky.social 孫崎玲 Associate Prof of English, Chapman U. |
Orange, CA | reimagosaki.info | 2026-2027 Society for the Humanities at Cornell U.
John O'Brien @johnobrien.bsky.social 
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social Poet, mom. Perimenopausal and down to talk about it, always. Author of DISPATCHES FROM FRONTIER SCHOOLS (Riot in Your Throat) and WHAT'S PINK & SHINY/WHAT'S DARK & HARD (Porkbelly). More at impolitelines.com.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social Copy and line editor*, queer, 24/7 nerd. Reads, writes, sings, plays D&D. Passionate and hopeful. Loves music — & dogs, most especially my own giant floof. They/them.
Wishlist: http://bit.ly/3R5zI2X
*Expect typos in posts; I’m using my thumbs.
Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social Asst Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. Social Policy/Public Administration, Intellectual/Developmental Disability and Aging.
Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social Postdoc @ School of Information Sciences, UIUC
American Literature, Media Theory, Data Science
I publish under "Edwin Roland" but don't tell anyone.
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social Composer and audio programmer // music lecturer at SUNY Geneseo
I also like TTRPGs, fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, weird fiction, and I'm getting into analog photography
https://reillyspitzfaden.com
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
ibramxkendi.com
Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social “Cosplay is for EVERYONE.” ✨👩🦽✨
Misa is a cosplayer and disability advocate based in New England.
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Gemma @gemmasupernova.bsky.social Writing education towards justice. Writer, poet, playwright, literacies scholar (Syracuse PhD 2022), writing coach. We Might As Well Be Underwater (Unsolicited Press, 2017). Queer. Social media lurker mostly. She/her.
www.gemmacoopernovack.com
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social Black, Catholic, KY Hillbilly, Okie, Social Psychologist, Nicknamed Godzilla since ‘73, Sci-Fi Geek, Comic Geek, Sport Geek, News Geek, Just a Geek, Lover of Cats, Not speaking for anyone (not even me at times)
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app 🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at CUNY| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
ProfYolonda @profyolonda.bsky.social Philosopher-Bioethicist with Georgia’s red clay in my blood. Feminist. Race woman. Views are my own.
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele @heyitsaugusta.bsky.social Higher ed professional, scholar of contemporary African and diasporic literatures, Nigerian, Ohioan (+ a sprinkle of Masshole)
1/3 of @specsntexts.bsky.social
https://lnk.bio/heyitsaugusta
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app Somali - Cidda 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯
*supporting trans & queer Somalis in EA on monthly basis*
pfp = the cover of bell hooks' Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
Daphne Penn @daphnempenn.bsky.social Asst. Professor doing academia differently • Deep work disciple democratizing academic knowledge and spaces • Southern girl writing to change the world • Sociologist writing a book about race, immigration, and schooling in the U.S. South
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
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.
Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D. @jervette.bsky.social Visionary leader driving innovation via strategic planning, systems building, and social justice
Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social Philosopher of science and race. Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter. He/him
Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social economist | from NJ | he/him
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Ajuan Mance @ajuanmance.bsky.social Artist, Writer, Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus of African American literature at Mills College. Picture book WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? is out now. https://www.ajuanmance.com #comics 🖤🏳️🌈
Brandi Collins-Dexter @brandicd.bsky.social Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡.
https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social artist::writer::learner::vegan::swimmer::yogi:: peloton-addict::american-studies::literature::cinema::pop-culture maven::author of BWiS.
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com media and journalism prof | made a film about my hometown | trekkie 🖖🏾
taralconley.org
Laurian Bowles PhD @drlaurian.bsky.social Black femme anthropologist | Author: HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra http://bit.ly/42KE9Dv, get 30% off w/ code PENN-LBOWLES30 or CSPENN30
she/her/dr | vann professor of racial justice | relationship anarchist | diaspora daughter|
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
GoddessofTheory @goddessoftheory.bsky.social Not here for endless debates.
wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social 2023 NYU provost postdoc • 2022 Ford dissertation fellow • PhD @PennGSE • storyteller using art, tech, and design • she/her • www.miasshaw.com
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social Wanderer.
Davia Downey @downeydavia.bsky.social I study federalism, local politics & policy in cities post-disaster. I also helped end gerrymandering in MI. I do a lot of yoga. 1st gen Ph.D. RT≠ endorsements. Read my work (gratuitous plug): https://tinyurl.com/ms7b9r6a. Send ur best memes. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist.
Critical Cognitive Science
www.criticalcognition.org
Cecília Olliveira @cecillia.com.br Co-Founder @intercept.com.br | Founder/Exec. Director, @fogocruzado.org.br (Open data on armed violence in 🇧🇷) | Caixa Postal 11599 CEP: 22.020-959
📩 contato@ceciliaolliveira.com
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded
PhD epidemiology candidate in perinatal health & homelessness. MPH, MS, smalltime bureaucrat, influencer influencer
Step 1: engage your brain - if there's a thread, read it before replying or quoting
Stanford W. Carpenter @swcarpenter.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist
Sometime Comic Creator
Former Archaeologist
AKA Brother-Story
Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana @zraresearch.bsky.social Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry.
Always speaking for me.
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social Assoc Prof Immunobiology at University of Arizona, Assoc Dean Basic science and grad studies for College of Medicine-Tucson, NSURP.org director. Long live copper!
Disco Stuart Hall aka Foucauldian Funk (ABD). @kurosarakokuou.bsky.social History PhD candidate researching the appropriation of urban subcultures. HNIC of Rotating Souls Records. Afrofuturist DJ. Kurosarakokuou on socials. Founder of Krog Codex Graffiti Digital Archive. @krogcodexofficial.bsky.social
Krogcodex.org
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
Oneya Okuwobi @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati | Book: Who Pays for Diversity? March 2025 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/who-pays-for-diversity/paper
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
Ayanna Kim Thomas @ayannakim.bsky.social Tufts Professor and Dean. Considers memory reconstruction as a universal principle of cognition. One of the founders of The Spark Society - dedicated to supporting diverse voices in Cognitive Science.
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Terza S . Lima-Neves, PhD 🇨🇻 @terzalimaneves.bsky.social TEDx Speaker | Author | Parenting 2 Lil Haters | HBCUProf | Centering The Experiences of Cabo Verdean Women | Fighting White Supremacy | CoFounder Poderozaconference.com
www.terzalimaneves.com
https://linktr.ee/TerzaLimaNeves
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Nikki A. Greene @drnikkigreene.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Art History @ Wellesley
drnikkigreene.com
✨Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body & the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke UP, 2024) ✨
https://www.dukeupress.edu/grime-glitter-and-glass
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Tia N. Donaldson, PhD @tiandonaldson.bsky.social SCIENTIST 🐭🧠 | Retired grad student | Tech writer
Amateur baker | Horror movie fan | 🐶🐶 mom
Views my own | We support ✊🏾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️here | She/her
Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social Wife & Mom 🤍 🇵🇷 | HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | BWF PDEP | Neuro PhD 🧠 UW-Madison | NINDSDiversity F99/K00 #DSPAN Alumna | Retina #Ephys 👁️ #BlackInNeuro | Founder @BlackInBiophys.bsky.social 💪🏾
Black In Biophysics @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Recognizing and celebrating Black scientists in Biophysics | Founder: @StevensSostre.bsky.social | Logo: Taneisha Gillyard-Cheairs, PhD | Web: blackinbiophysics.org | #BIBPSWeek2021 YouTube link: https://tinyurl.com/yvw86b53
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
A Doc Named Slickback @kaerf1.bsky.social Ph.D. • Social Movements + New Media & AI + Critical Race #BlackDH • Asst. Prof. African American Studies / Sociology
Tennille Nicole Allen @tennillenallen.blacksky.app West Side Chicagoan by birth. Sociology professor by training. Black feminist by Audre, bell, and Patricia. I study Black people doing Black things in Black places.
Mikaela Spruill @spruill.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology| Arizona State University | 1913 | Examining how individual judgments & decisions sustain systemic racial inequity | she/hers
mikaelaspruill.com
Earl Huff, Jr., Ph.D. @earlhuffjr.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin iSchool. Co-Director, REALITY Lab. Researches equity and inclusion in online learning, integrating AI into education, and broadening participation. #a11y #HCI #Elearning #CompEd #STEMEd
https://www.earlhuffjr.com
Amy Egbert, Ph.D. @amyegbert.bsky.social Pediatric psychologist | Assistant Professor at UConn | Eating Disorders | Healthy Equity | Amplifying the voices of minoritized populations. All views my own 
Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social Living my purpose
Writer:
Books #LessonsFromPlants (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674241282) & #WhenTreesTestify (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250335166/whentreestestify/)
Professor
#Leadership|#Mentoring|#EquityReadingList/#DEIReadingList
Denzil Streete, PhD @drdenzilstreete.bsky.social Sr. Associate Dean & Director of Graduate Education @ MIT. 🇹🇹🗽Morvant-proud.
#books #Arsenal #food
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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social Pprofessor. Black environmental literature, war, and 19th century Black life. Former President of C19: The Society for 19th Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. New book: Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery (Duke UP). D.C.
Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social Columbia professor. Scholar of environmental and climate justice, cities, and who gets to build the future. Co-founder LabGov. Detroit born, Miami bred.
https://people.climate.columbia.edu/users/profile/sheila-foster
Nadia E. Brown @brownphdgirl.bsky.social Professor of Government and Director of Women's & Gender Studies @ Georgetown University. Giving this a try
www.nadiaebrownphd.com
Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education;
Professor of Educational Leadership and Law;
University of Connecticut
Opinions expressed are my own.
Website: https://www.drprestongreen.com/
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com
hurstonian @ahmadgreene.com 🏫 professor, writer, lover
✨views are my own.
riana elyse anderson @rianaelyse.bsky.social AKAdemic Activist | Black Psychologist | Detroit Lover | God Follower | Columbia Prof | Twitter Refugee | Carb Aficionado
✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app Lonely Chaotic Friend 💫 Artist/Writer: IDW Sonic + Disney Comics! 💫 He/Him 💫 SCAD/SVA SEQA Art Prof! 💫 Black & Trans Lives Will Always Matter 💫 Comics! Animation! Puns! 💫 Big Goofus! 💫 Big POYO?! 💫 Chill, Friendly Space for Chill, Friendly Folk 💫 🌈+🍉+🏳️⚧️+✊🏾=❤️
Alyasah Ali Sewell, Your Public Sociologist for the Day @aasewell.bsky.social Winship Distinguished Research Prof & Associate Prof of Sociology at Emory. Critical Racism Studies & Intersectionality. Black Feminist. Gender Expansive. Lefty. #Blackademic. ✊🏾🌈
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