Stephanie Mota Thurston, Ph.D.
professor of ethics, religion, & politics @ UIUC. focus on democratic practices, citizenship, public schools, abolition, & borders | standard disclaimers
stephaniemotathurston.com
@vox-magica.bsky.social
historian of christianity | scholar of magic & heresy | critic of empires | neurospicy | unabashedly hopeful, even now | author of magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX) | she/her
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@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
@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
@propublica.org
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
@ryanlcooper.com
Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@religiondispatches.org
bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008 * award-winning * independent * non-profit * justice-minded * irreverent RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
@robertpjones.bsky.social
President and founder, PRRI. NYT Bestselling author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. Writing at https://www.whitetoolong.net.
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
@kenwhite.bsky.social
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Signal: KenWhite.1969
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
@jonbois.bsky.social
jon https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
@sheeraf.bsky.social
NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang. Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
@jlgittinger.bsky.social
PhD Religious Studies. South Asia, scifi, human rights, disability, nationalism. She/her. I talk about Star Trek too much but oh well. Alt account for Skylight: @juli-drg
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@erinbartram.bsky.social
Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
@jeetheer.bsky.social
Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
@timjacobwise.bsky.social
The only real account on here for Tim Wise (well, at least the one who's an anti-racism educator, author, critical race theorist, and Senior Fellow at the African American Policy Forum).
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Co-Chief Content Officer at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Join #AcademicChatter for support & community in higher education.
@drleahpayne.bsky.social
Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM @OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
@gregsmithpolls.bsky.social
Associate Director, Religion Research @pewresearch.org Posting about issues at the intersection of religion and public life
@bencasselman.bsky.social
Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him. Email: [email protected] Signal: @bencasselman.96 📸: Earl Wilson/NYT
@allisonvandev.bsky.social
Developmental editor for academic authors. Author: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicago Press). Workshop facilitator. She/her, Van DEV-en-ter. Comp lit PhD. https://www.allisonvandeventer.com/
@jaxhidalgo.bsky.social
Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
@antheabutler.bsky.social
Professor, Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller.
@profirmf.bsky.social
tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. occasional TikTokker. she/her. (specifics @ profirmf.com)
@travisbcurtice.bsky.social
Climber. Assistant Prof Drexel University. Studying police, repression & conflict. Fmr Carter Center, USIP, & Dartmouth Dickey Center. PhD Emory Polisci. Views are my own.
@rbkhoury.bsky.social
assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest first grader. www.ranakhoury.com
@conradhackett.bsky.social
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center Global religious change, sociology
@sumitapahwa.bsky.social
Social scientist, religion and politics, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Teaches at Scripps College. Book: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/5829/politics-as-worship/
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@ecothought.bsky.social
Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights 🍉🌈🏜️
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
@dwcongdon.com
Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, University of Kansas | New book: WHO IS A TRUE CHRISTIAN? (Cambridge University Press, 2024) | #aapi
@nataliemavalos.bsky.social
Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own
@judithweisenfeld.com
Scholar of African American religious history and religion and race in America Director: @xroadproj.bsky.social Website: https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/ Most recent book: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025)
@nicolawhyte.bsky.social
theologian. sometimes academic. phd from Princeton seminary. Scot. feminist. lefty. andy murray fan. 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈
@jessifer.bsky.social
Irascibly optimistic. Ungrading. Critical Digital Pedagogy. Professor at U of Denver. Owner of PlayForge. Co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy. Author of Undoing the Grade and An Urgency of Teachers. One of Hazel’s dads. he/him. https://www.jessestommel.com
@jkshields.bsky.social
#ReligionNerd #OA #ScholComm #Ekkies How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks~Dorothy Sayers 🏳️🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️⚧️. Open borders. End Prisons.