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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
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Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com Historian of slavery, the Black South and the Caribbean | Using art, music & archives to teach and tell Black stories | Assoc Prof | Writer Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social Organizing LA block by block.
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Tyler Ruggeri @truggeri.bsky.social Film/TV/commercial writer. Proud WGA West member and screen captain. Broadway Quarantine Party host. Still mad about Laurie Metcalf’s Oscar.
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Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social abolitionist lawyer. everyday antifascist. viva viva tortuguita.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Just published a book about anarchists at war in Spain, Kurdistan, and Myanmar, previously wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics.Para todos,todo✌️
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Michael Chwe @michaelchwe.bsky.social Author of _Rational Ritual_ and _Jane Austen, Game Theorist_, teaches at UCLA, game theorist
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PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside
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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Kate Renne.. @prof-cinement.bsky.social Canadian film prof in the Midwest who used to write for Cinema Scope (RIP), works at the Telluride Film Festival, and misses David Lynch. Co-host of podcasts The Lodgers and The Akerman Year.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.