The Book Lounge @thebooklounge.bsky.social An independent bookshop for independent thinkers, in the heart of Cape Town ✨
Opening Hours: Mon to Fri - 9am to 6pm Saturday - 9am to 4pm Sunday - 10am to 4pm
https://linktr.ee/bookloungecapetown
Bridge Books @bridgebooksjoburg.bsky.social Indie bookshop in Joburg. CBD, Linden and online at bridgebooks.co.za
Also growing LitDistrict.co.za for all things bookish in the city.
Line Nyhagen @linenyhagen.bsky.social Professor of Sociology @ Loughborough University, UK. Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. Researching religion, gender, race & citizenship. She/her.
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social Academic, writer, and editor at Rosa Press. Poetry and poetics; gender, sexuality, and the family form; prisons and policing; contemporary art and media. Nonbinary comrade.
Mihee Kim-Kort @miheekimkort.bsky.social I'm a writer, teacher, scholar of American religion and culture, and co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church | #Annapolis #ABD #VeryAsian she/they 🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/miheekimkort 
Lois McFarland @loiswmcf.bsky.social Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Speculative fiction, feminist/womanist/queer theory, affect, ecology, and freaky apocalyptic things.
'Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction' (Bloomsbury 2026)
she/her 🏳️🌈
Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social Former Local Government Archivist now in the Ivory Tower. MBTA green and blue line commuter. Once described as "insane in a great way"
Patrick Burrows @lpburrows.bsky.social Author, "Theology in Place: Christianity, Geography, and the American South" (Fordham UP) | Theology, ethics, queer studies, Dolly Parton | North Carolinian | GDTBATH, YNWA | he/him
Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social librarian
ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology
also: hockey, fiber arts, pugs, yoga
keeganosinski.com
American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social Our mission is to foster excellence in the academic study of religion and enhance the public understanding of religion.
Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social author, Appalling Bodies (OUP)
co-editor, Trans Biblical (WJK)
founding co-editor, QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion
counter-kyriarchal killjoy
professor, religious studies + women’s and gender studies
a bit of a mess here
The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social Award-winning magazine (and podcast) about religion, society, and media published by NYU's Center for Religion & Media. https://therevealer.org/
Kittredge Cherry @kittredgecherry.bsky.social LGBTQ spirituality author at https://Qspirit.net. 
Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. 
emi koyama @eminism.org activist, writer, rogue intellectual
seattle / portland
rightsandsafety.org • aileens.org
more links: https://linktr.ee/emikoyama
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
Rinn @prosaicchaos.bsky.social Disabled ace with a PhD in Disability Studies. She/her.
Rhonda Mawhood Lee @rhondamawhoodlee.bsky.social Priest, writer, spiritual director
PhD history
Survivor and reluctant scholar of suicide
Backyard birder
She/her
📚 Suicide and the Communion of Saints; Seek and You Will Find: Discovering a Practice of Prayer; Through With Kings and Armies
vernie, the bone hydra @vvoogs.bsky.social they/them, mid-30s. artist-ish, writer-ish, & reluctant iowan
IG ☞ rainbarrelbindery
Amy Joy ⚓️ @aymiejoi.bsky.social Charlie's Mama. Aspirant for Holy Orders in TEC. Youth Minister. NOT a morning person. My tombstone will say, "She pspspsed the wrong animal". She/Her
dr. schmoo @samuelernest.com writer, theologian, PhD religious studies from Yale, founding publisher and editor of @homodoxy.com + rearviewrag.com
Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.butchsky.social Poet. Librarian. Chronically stressed.
Lesbian boywifeguy. Itinerant of the butch borderlands. On at least three tiers of gender at all times. (they/them, ey/em, ze/hir, etc)
Welcome to the cat colony.
Havant Trans and Intersex Network @havant-trans-is.bsky.social Support group for Trans and IS people in the Havant Borough area
Intersex Equality Rights @intersexequality.bsky.social 
Collectif Intersexe Activiste - OII France @ciaoiifrance.bsky.social Le Collectif Intersexe Activiste - OII France lutte pour l'autodétermination et contre la pathologisation et les mutilations des personnes intersexes.
https://lnk.bio/CIAOIIFrance
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social Geologist (MSc), hydrologic modeler.
ELCA. She/her. Ace.
Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, flatlanded in Iowa.
Avatar: Functionally unidentifiable in snow gear
Banner: Hailstones and engineering ruler
Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/default/files/documents/cv/ALH%20CV%202025%20short%20version.pdf
Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social assistant professor of writing studies and director of writing @ SUNY geneseo.
researching the political economy of writing programs and ideologies of literacy, language, gender, and technology.
bass in sweet crush.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Chris Jones @profchrismjones.bsky.social Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social ❤️🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻
** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan. 
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
Georgiann Davis @georgianndavis.bsky.social Intersex scholar-activist and sociologist at the University of New Mexico
Gail Hamner @mgailhamner.bsky.social Emerita prof from Syracuse; obsessive reader; start each day with espresso and 3 pages of MF's Dits et Écrits, swim in Marx's seas, hang out with folks from the Society for the Study of Affect, and attend Duke's FTW every year. ❤️ my kitten, Truffle.
Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography.
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social Co-Founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project; Sexuality Educator at Tool Shed Toys; Grinnell College alumni. Historian, archivist, zine maker. he/they 🤘🏼🌈🤘🏼
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her
@cawkwardrich.bsky.social @cawkwardrich.bsky.social 
oralhistory (formerly @notoralhistory) @oralhistory.bsky.social Formerly @notoralhistory on Twitter, but now fully #oralhistory.
Scholar of Oral History, Anthropology, Critical Disability Studies, Folklore & #disabilityanthropology
https://www.tumblr.com/oral-history
Ethan Cicero (he/they/dr) @ciceroethan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Emory School of Nursing | RWJF Future of Nursing Scholar | Butler-Williams Scholar | Transgender Health | Healthy Aging | ADRD | Health Equity | PhD, RN, FAAN
P. Scott Cunningham @cunningpscott.bsky.social Poet/Essayist. Winner, 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Founder: O, Miami - omiami.org #COYS About me: pscottcunningham.com
aam @alialtafmian.bsky.social 
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social Assoc. prof at the U of Miami; African literature. She/her/hers. Anything I say represents only myself.
@thiswalden.bsky.social @thiswalden.bsky.social 
Rottenartist @rottenartist.bsky.social Edgar Allan Poe historic reenactor for NEA, NYU, NYPL, Discovery Channel
NYCC 2025 FX 🏆
Instagram: Rottenartist.
Upcoming performances https://linktr.ee/thepoeactor
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
jewishcurrents.org/subscribe
Hanna Reichel @hannareichel.bsky.social theologize, err, try again...
Systematic Theologian at Princeton Theological Seminary. #AfterMethod, #AgainstHumanity, Political Theologies of Omniscience.
they/them.
Petra Doan @petradoan.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Urban Planning FSU.
Studied philosophy at Haverford, then planning at Cornell. LGBTQ+ Spaces and urban development. Work in Africa, and MidEast, Fulbright in Jordan
Married trans woman living in Maine
Queer Quaker writing a memoir
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
Emily A Peck (she/her) @prof-emily-p.bsky.social Professor of Christian Formation•Pastor in the UMC•Mama of 3
New book in Feb 2025: _Nobody’s Perfect_
BLM•Reproductive Rights•LGBTQ+ Folx are Beloved of God•Everyone Is•Enneagram 8
Marguerite @margueritek.bsky.social Standard issue Episcopal church lady. Julian Oblate.
www.orderofjulian.org
Ora et labora. she/her
Abel @mivan-mar.bsky.social PhD student in philosophy and theology
Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social Not Giving Up.
Oscar Nominated Director:
RBG, JULIA, MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY, GABBY GIFFORDS (w/Betsy West)
PATH FORWARD (w/Mo Husseini)
EVERY BODY, STURGEON QUEENS
I ❤️ @PaulTheDogMan & 🐕 🐕
Co leader w @lizzylady: MontclairSundays INDIVISIBLE.
Pliny Soocoormanee. 🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇲🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 @plinys23.bsky.social #LGBT+ & Human Rights Activist.
#SocialJustice #Liberation.
#EconomicDemocracy.
Exec. Officer @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social.
#NDA24 #Bluecrew
Historian & Historical reenactor.
https://linktr.ee/pliny23h
🚫DM
#LGBTHM #Gymrat
Dr. Anu A Harju @memoriscapes.bsky.social Researcher of violent death and data. Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Media Studies, death, data and memory. Digital afterlife and politics of remembering. For feels in the current climate, see pic.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Richard W. Morrison @swelleganza.bsky.social Publisher, Editor, Queer. Lover of poetry, art, music, gardens, nonhumans, collectives, community, safe spaces, open borders, critical thinking.
@kfunkhou.bsky.social @kfunkhou.bsky.social 
Intersex Book Club @intersexbookclub.bsky.social An online book club for intersex people to form social connections and explore intersex-oriented literature together. Allies & questioners welcome. https://intersexbookclub.tumblr.com/
C. Libby @libbylibby.bsky.social WGSS Penn State
Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social Vera said that?
Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social Prof @AmericanU. Interested in political theory, social movements, LGBTQ life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Deaf Killjoy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @deafkilljoy.bsky.social deafdisabled queer nerd. Stuff I do: history crip linguistics disability studies sign language deaf studies 
J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges.bsky.social Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/jlsmilges
B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social 📚Transgender Refugees (Palgrave) & Queer & Trans African Mobilities (ZED) East African Queer & Trans Displacement (2024 Bloomsbury) 📚•Fellow @iciberlin & Research Assoc @ACMSWits • Co-founder @ALMN_research • 🏳️⚧️ (They|She) 🏳️⚧️ www.bcamminga.com
Center for Applied Transgender Studies @transstudies.bsky.social We are an independent nonprofit research center dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, & political conditions of transgender life. We also publish the platinum open access journal, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
Mat Fournier @matfournier.bsky.social Queer/Trans/Environmentalist. Author of Dysphoric Modernism. 
Laura Briggs @ljbriggs.bsky.social Queer feminist historian of reproductive politics. Author of Taking Children. (they/them).
Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social Canadian Studies UofT. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; Social AI, Ghostbots, Griefbots; Digital Humanities, Digital & Geolocative Storytelling; Game Studies.
T'karanto, Treaty 13
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Lizzie Reis @lzreis23.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, and bioethics. Author, BODIES IN DOUBT: AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF INTERSEX and DAMNED WOMEN: SINNERS AND WITCHES IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND. Emeritus at Univ. of Oregon and retired from CUNY. www.lizziereis.com- M Mercer Gary @mercgary.bsky.social asst prof of philosophy / feminist philosophy and bioethics / she, her
Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. https://linktr.ee/transjournalists
Support us: https://bit.ly/tja_pride
Sociologists for Trans Justice (S4TJ) @s4tj.bsky.social Our mission is three-fold:
- To support trans, non-binary, and intersex scholars in sociology
- To advance trans, non-binary, and intersex studies in sociology
- To increase public understanding
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🌐 https://s4tj.com/
Maggie Shipstead @maggieshipstead.bsky.social Writer, Los Angeles
Trisha Zoradi @trishazoradi.bsky.social I’m an online barre3 fitness instructor in Portland, OR. Looking for a wealthy benefactor to fund my expensive hobbies: riding horses, buying books, ballet, sushi, and Lego. Oh, and I’m married with two children and a cat.
Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social Indigenous geneticist & bioethicist.
Thinking about who owns DNA—and who benefits.
Data sovereignty, genomics & AI ethics.
Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social Indigiqueer anti-colonial scholar activist •
social work prof
📍 Tkarón:to
Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social Mvskoke/Semvnole. Daughter of Kaccvlke.
Native Rights Advocate. Journalist.
She/They
I thrive in chaos which is why I don't mind creating a bit of it every once in awhile.
Personal Account
daanis @daanis.ca Looking for Indigenous voices? Subscribe to and pin Indigisky🔥 and Indigiskeeters🦟 if you're Indigenous, ask me to add you to the skeeters list. Subscribe to both here: https://goodfeeds.co/search?q=%40daanis.ca
Center for Jewish Food Ethics @jewishfoodethics.bsky.social Nonprofit shifting Jewish communal food practices and building a more sustainable, just, and compassionate food system for all--people, animals, and our planet.
Learn more at JewishFoodEthics.org
Religion Call For Papers (relcfp) @relcfp.com RELCFP is a religious studies call for papers repository (relcfp.com)
Adrienne Krone @adriennekrone.bsky.social Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Sustainability and Religious Studies. She/her/hers- B @blairwilner.bsky.social @blairwilner.bsky.social
Barbara @b-edwards.bsky.social 
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Lucy Burgchardt @lucy-b-phd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Rhetoric and Public Memory
A student evaluation once referred to me as “Leslie Knope.” That was it. That was the whole comment.
churchlady320 @churchlady320.bsky.social What we do on the streets is enhanced or killed by laws we make. 40- year street activist for women, racial justice, LBGTQ rights, unions, immigrants, homeless. Fighting RW extremists daily. Now I fight for our rights in legislation. Harris progressive.
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd