AALCS @aalcs.bsky.social This is the official account for the African American Literature and Culture Society. We initiate and encourage critical dialogue, scholarly publications, conferences, programs, and projects devoted to our field of study.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
DH_with_Eprene @dhwitheprene.bsky.social “In an AI-run future, this human-only space imagines what machines can't—a refuge of pure creativity where every silenced voice is heard and real justice and equality finally rise. Here, AI has no power, only humanity shines. For all voices. And truth..!”
@happyme92.bsky.social @happyme92.bsky.social Giver,respecter of women love and respect 🙌 ❤
Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social The public scholarship project.
👩🏻💻 Academic editing: christinagessler.com
📰 Newsletter: https://christinagessler.substack.com
🎙️ Academic Life podcast: Apple, NBN, etc
Knowledge is a public good.
#AcademicSky #SkyWriting #BookSky #Skystorians #BookTok
@keishaoliver.bsky.social @keishaoliver.bsky.social
Eunice Toh @eunicetoh.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at #DigBlk. Working on #C19 Black Ecologies
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Patrice R. Green @readingrenae.bsky.social Curator. Librarian. Public historian.
Minding y’all’s business via archival collections.
Xalisto🔬🧪🧬 ✍️📚 @calistusmbeti.bsky.social Supporting researchers and scientists with📝scientific editing💰grant writing👩💻proofreading 📖formatting✍️medical writing 💻technical writing👩🏻🔬scientific review📊data visualization📚author services .🔬🧪🧬 ✍️📚
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
eden [ay•DUH•n] @weygudey.bsky.social she/her/እሷ
diasporic memory worker ፡ ትዝታ enthusiast
alleged Geography & Africana Studies PhD candidate 🤷🏾♀️
Data Curator & Senior Research Project Manager @ccp-org.bsky.social✨
Community Engagement @douglassday.bsky.social✨
#DigBlk Fellow @digblk.bsky.social✨
Justin Smith, Ph.D. @justinsmithphd.bsky.social -PhD, English and African American Studies
-Assistant Prof. of English and Black Studies at Randolph-Macon College
-Opions are my own
-He/him
Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social Proud geek, dad, and husband. Teacher and literary historian with emphasis on Black print culture--esp. C19 and African American women writers. Opinions my own.
BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social He/him, bi,💙. I don't normally do social media, but this place seems less aggressive than most of the internet.
@blkgirlarchivist.bsky.social @blkgirlarchivist.bsky.social Storyteller. Archivist. Activist. Creator of Reparative Archives and all spin-offs! (Proper citation please) Founder of Project STAND https://standarchives.com/
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Democracy Art @democracyart.bsky.social 💙 Preserving America's most recent political history through art. Artist RockwellB website www.rockwellb.com . See this bold pictorial book: "The Republic is Tested: History Unfolds Before Our Eyes" a.co/d/9HPhHL5 . Democracy defender. Goodwill to all.
@davidxportillo.bsky.social @davidxportillo.bsky.social Opinions are my own.
David Obando @davidobando.bsky.social Eng. at MSFT. Dad to two clones, recreational cyclist, vegetarian. Art, tech, non-human intelligence, consciousness. He/him/él.
https://heresmyintro.com/david
ACpresso @acpresso.bsky.social digital text studies / corpus linguistics / literature / language
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
@william156.bsky.social @william156.bsky.social
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social Community Archivist & Digital Scholarship Librarian, PSU Special Collections / Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations 2024-2027 / Admin & Tech Advisor, Ex Officio, Center for Black Digital Research # DigBlk.psu.edu / HowardZinn.org Digital Curator
Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
Jen @defmaybee.bsky.social Meet me at the library.
Brian_K @warfreezone.bsky.social "…pitiful mementos of unknown moments..."
(I am a civil legal aid attorney; formerly capital defense)
Natalie V. @nvbinder.io Librarian, itinerant fortune teller, lore dropper. Sharing pics of my deaf dog Winnie & adventures in nature.
📍 FL & GA
Tarot stuff: http://www.turningcard.com | Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/turningcard | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorefolk_atl/
Liz Ott @elizott.bsky.social Director of the Rose Library, Emory University, she/her
Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.
Courtney Murray Ross @cmross.bsky.social PhD from Penn State—18th/19th c. AfAm lit, Black feminism, Black DH
🌱, 👾, & ⛓️💥
JBG @lizzlebadd.bsky.social Clark Atlanta AWS Masters Student 🍎 | herstorian | low brass lady | Spelman woman 🛸 | author of “Adventures with the Funk House Band” out now!! 🌱📚
Www.breakthesealpress.com
Machinist Mage @machinist-mage.bsky.social He/Him
Protect trans kids, stand with trans adults, play mahjong with trans elders.
Free Palestine, Free Ukraine
🚄🏴🇵🇷🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦
Dropout / Dimension 20 / Nerdfighteria / Critical Role / Scavengers Reign / Discworld & HHGttG
Anderson Moss-Weaver @edgyprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor of American Religions @ Bates College
Lifelong TTRPG-nerd
Black Haiku obsessed
What does liberation feel like? Sound like? Smell and taste like? I want to know these things
Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social Home to @ccp-org.bsky.social, Black Women's Organizing Archive, and @DouglassDay.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/digblk
Terence (he/they) ✊🏾🤙🏾🌈🦬 @braveeducator1906.bsky.social Black Queer Transdisciplinary Scholar, Educator, and Co-Conspirator #1906 #balwinite #africana
Erin @ginhouseblues.bsky.social queer, enby southerner based in chicago. covid aware. they/he
Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social DouglassDay.org | #DouglassDay
Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. A day of love and collective action for Black history & archives!
@newday615.bsky.social @newday615.bsky.social
Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social Archivist for shiftcollective.us & archivingtheblackweb.org
Dr. Brigitte Fielder @brigfield.bsky.social Prof. of African American literature before 1900ish, Black children’s lit. 1773-now, & other things (neverending)19th Century. Co-editor, J19. Co-founder, TaughtByLiterature.org. I like birds & trains. Also cats. Mon français est nul. It’s “bridge-it.”
Natanya Duncan, PhD @garveyitewmn.bsky.social Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Historian, Researcher/Writer, Author, Teacher, Child of the Black Diaspora
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
LaShawn Harris @madameclair08.bsky.social Bronx Raised | Historian | Writer | Prof | Author of Author of Sex Workers, Psychics, & Numbers Runners (University of Illinois Press, 2016)
Nora Eguienta @nora-eguienta.bsky.social Doctorante #UniversitéParis8 et #IDHES ; Histoire des institutrices laïques en Martinique ; Certifiée d’HG ; Alumnus #SciencesPoParis ; Alumnus #HowardUniversity ; Martiniquaise 🌺
https://idhes.univ-paris8.fr/eguienta-nora
cwswrites @cwswrites.bsky.social Vintage writer, former librarian, I RESIST
@rudisell.bsky.social @rudisell.bsky.social
THiCC PI @profdancy.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of IEng, CS & Eng @ PSU #CogSci, #AI, Critical Black Studies, Hum. Factors. AfAm. 1stGen. THiCC lab PI (https://sites.psu.edu/thicc). Incoming Co-Director @digblk.bsky.social. Co-lead at AI-SDM (https://www.cmu.edu/ai-sdm/). All opinions my own
Dr. Jennifer Isasi @jenniferisasi.bsky.social Digital Hispanic Studies 👩🏻💻 Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative | Editora jefe de Programming Historian en español | Views my own | ES EN EUS
Rachel Fernandes @rachelthefern.bsky.social PhD
Mixed-Race Literature, Canadian Literature
Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social Librarian, sociologist, zinester. Reproductive justice, prison abolition, books (especially romance novels), cats, and women’s soccer (Gotham, Chelsea, USWNT). Free zines at juliesetele.com
Free Palestine. Land Back. Black Lives Matter.
They/them.
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Laura Vrana @callmevrana.bsky.social Scholar of African American poetry (author of https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215753.html); Univ of South AL Associate Professor; former Emory FCHI Poetics Fellow & Rutgers postdoc. Opinions mine. She/her/hers.
Sabrina Evans-Rangel @drsabevans.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Howard University
Co-Project Coordinator of the Black Women's Organizing Archive (BWOA)
Research focused on 19th and early 20th century Black women writers and activists and their archives
Karen A Johnson @africasankofakaren.bsky.social Associate Professor Emerita
Research interests: 19th century African American women educators, African American intellectual tradition, Black radical tradition, and Black feminist thought, among others. Avid reader, world traveler, writer, and author.
Jewon Woo @jewonwoo.bsky.social Black print culture, Black newspapers, DH, pedagogy for underrepresented students, esp. at community college, community-based teaching, cat, UU, and kimchi. 한국사람. jewonwoo.com
Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social Award-winning Author and Rhetorical Historian | Professor of Communication | Rhetoric, Race and Religion, Sigma 1914🤘🏾
Sue Hemberger @smhemberger.bsky.social Loves books, food, movies, cities, conversation, and trees. Sociable introvert. Deinstitutionalized academic.- A @amdopico.bsky.social @amdopico.bsky.social
Breanne Justine @breannejustine.bsky.social She/her. Attorney. Jamerican. 🇯🇲 Afrofuturist. (Black) Immigration Law + Policy Nerd. Floral Design Fan. Here to complain and commune.
ashley @atsinha.bsky.social 📍philly + nj, sometimes dc, midwest always // good fights, tech, & creative // interdisciplinary artist + hobby ceramics // occasional writer, birder, citizen science enthusiast, clean air advocate // climate, cameras, bikes, and hikes 🥾
Katie Warczak @katiewarczak.bsky.social Human companion to a horse (Impulse) and cat (Nella Larsen); Ph.D in English and African American Studies with research interests in the intersections of race, animality, disability, and pseudoscience.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Jessica Scott @jessicascott.net Writer of spicy military romances, among other things. Writing again after a 5 year drought. Sociologist studying privacy, surveillance, and narrative warfare.
https://jessicascottbooks.com
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez @dryofiggy.bsky.social AfroBoricua, negra bien salá: Caguas/Vega Baja/Hoboken. Professor + Dir of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) @CUNY. Author: #DecolonizingDiasporas 🌊
PI-Diaspora Solidarities Lab & CENTRO Rooted + Relational
Sites: https://linktr.ee/yomairaf
Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more.
Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence?
ColoredConventions.org
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
@dburgher.bsky.social @dburgher.bsky.social
Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social Co-editor, The Colored Conventions Movement (2021). Writing a history of editing and editors. Making our way at the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, Early Black Press Project, and the Coalition for Black Digital Research.
kendra_latasha @kendralatasha.bsky.social Grad student who loves archival research and digital humanities, social justice and women's rights, and learning about our dynamic universe. I read AFAM Literature 19C/20C, newspapers and women's writing (diaries, and letters) and historical fiction
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.