Q Manivannan
Writing care, grief, and protests ✍🏽
Winner, ‘23 Kavya Prize for Scottish Writers 📖
PhDing/ teaching IR at the University of St Andrews 🌸
(they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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South Asian Scholars
Broadly defined starter kit of scholars and writers, based in or working on South Asian regions 🌸✍🏽
@sandraduffy.bsky.social
Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, post-/de-coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸 Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social https://ko-fi.com/sandraaduffy
@grayb1ack.bsky.social
• IR PhD @ St Andrews • Sustained by anthrozoology, queer ecology, political theory, and pancakes • they/them
@saptman.bsky.social
Law academic interested in the ways in which law matters and materializes 🪑
@sarafranagain.bsky.social
“quite the character” - my mother | words in McSweeney’s, Points in Case, Slackjaw | face on the internet
@sgpalestinegroup.bsky.social
We are the Scottish Greens’ Palestine Solidarity Group. We campaign for freedom, justice, and self-determination for the Palestinian people!
@guyingerson.bsky.social
Climate & Social Justice Activist in Aberdeen | Eco-Socialist | Former Political Staffer | Former Oil & Gas Worker
@woof.scot
Trans Woman|New Traveller|Manc➡️🏴 Scottish Greens: Policy Committee 🏳️🌈 rep Palestine Solidarity Group Committee EUSA Student Homelessness rep “Leading trans campaigner” - The Sun 🏳️⚧️⚧️🇵🇸🐝🏴🏳️🌈 #politics #LGBTQIA #activism #journalism #animalpics #Zines #CivEng
@lornaslater.bsky.social
Scottish Greens Co-Leader | MSP for Lothian | She/Her | Promoted by Pete Morrison on behalf of Lorna Slater MSP, both at 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN. Posts managed by my staff team.
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social
disaffected glass-half-empty type; starting to think belatedly about more than humans 📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
@edinreporter.bsky.social
Hyperlocal news from the Scottish capital Founding member of ICNN theedinburghreporter.co.uk https://vimeo.com/user2348846 https://ko-fi.com/theedinburghreporter/shop https://www.youtube.com/user/TheEdinburghReporter https://bit.ly/3Uz7D2K
@edinuni-irr.bsky.social
A University of Edinburgh research institute. Our scientists & clinicians study tissue regeneration and repair to advance human health and reproductive outcomes
@caitlinrain.bsky.social
Global #SRHR, working at the intersection of public policy, human rights, and imp sci. These days, all things #PPH. Posts = own views https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-869X
@elspethwrites.bsky.social
Writer, poet and guinea pig fosterer. Pre-order These Mortal Bodies coming July 2025 from Simon and Schuster 🦇. https://linktr.ee/elspethwrites
@docpaperback.bsky.social
Not the former drummer with Roxy Music. Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews. Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?' www.tinyurl/ThomPulp Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
@thewire.in
India's foremost Independent news-site, carrying investigation, reportage and critical opinion. support.thewire.in
@jaygao.bsky.social
Poet: Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). PhDing at Columbia. https://www.jay-gao.com
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@jedapearl.bsky.social
🖌️ Poetry • SFF • Fiction • Art • https://linktr.ee/JedaPearl • ⚡ Disabled • Fibromyalgia 🥄 💫 Collaboration •Community • 🏴🇯🇲
@azad-ashim.bsky.social
Writerly Poet and Director of @the87press.bsky.social. Based in SW London. Free Palestine.
@memoonawrites.bsky.social
poet ; ledbury critic ; ma in poetry from uea ; goldsmiths grad ; london ; free palestine https://msha.ke/memoonazahid
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English] Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony vavapoetry@gmail.com
@lkiew.bsky.social
Poet, accountant, dancer. Debut collection MORE THAN WEEDS out with Nine Arches Press. https://linktr.ee/lkiew
@salenagodden.bsky.social
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’ books & gigs: https://linktr.ee/salenagodden Substack: https://salenagodden.substack
@courtneyconrad.bsky.social
🇯🇲🇬🇧 Poet| Cave Canem Fellow| Book'I Am Evidence' @BloodaxeBooks|2022 Eric Gregory Award @Soc_of_Authors |2023 Michael Marks Award| Instagram - @courtneyconradpoetry Website: http://www.courtneyconradpoet.com/
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
@karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social
Poet. Novelist. Essays. Nature geek & speaker addict. Author Top Doll 2024. TS Eliot Prize Shortlist. Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA. FRSL. Teaches at Goldsmiths. Faber Academy. 🎶🐿️ 🪐
@mailbykite.bsky.social
Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. Latest book: amuk (2024), next: ANNAH, INFINITE (2025). Also ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art. https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/amuk
@dbodepudi.bsky.social
Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
@shastahali.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Dreamer. Racial Equity @corrafoundation. Communities. Chai for the win.
@titiiilayo.bsky.social
Free Free 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇱🇧 In Wolf's Skin 💛 @Stewed Rhubarb Press Coming🌱 But We Did ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽 @404 Ink
@janinebradbury.bsky.social
Writer | Academic | Poet | BBC New Generation Thinker | Senior Lecturer at University of York | Teaches Contemporary Black Lit | Author ‘Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy’ (Poetry Book Soc Pamphlet Autumn Choice 2024) https://www.janinebradbury.co.uk/
@seanwaikeung.bsky.social
@marjorielotfi.bsky.social
Writer (The Wrong Person to Ask/ Bloodaxe Books, Forward Prize, James Berry Award, Saltire Prize Shortlist) Co-Founder/Director Open Book, Mentor, writing retreats at Galloway House Estate
@hannahlavery.bsky.social
Poet. Playwright. Performer. Director. Dancing in my kitchen. hannahlavery.com
@msiagirl.bsky.social
Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
@scotbpocwriters.bsky.social
Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org