So Mayer
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social 💘 SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 💜 Website & newsletter: somayer.net.
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Follow your fave UK & Irish indie bookstores as they make it over here… in perfect time for Xmas gifts & books of the year lists.
@markbould.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
@smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social
"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction, in which I get to discuss the short story form with academics, writers, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories. Instagram: @smallgoodpodcast smallgoodpodcast@gmail.com
@novicsara.bsky.social
Author TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR 🧏🏻 deafie | 🌈 they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly https://linktr.ee/Novic
@newishpuritan.bsky.social
Ex-historian of Venice, writer, editor. Author of The Angels of L19, Push Process (a novel with photographs), and other books. (Banner image by Dan Hallett.) https://650749c57a329.site123.me/ jonathanwalkersblog.blogspot.com
@rbfchampion.bsky.social
Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️🌈 auDHD 🎓PhD candidate 🍉 Psyber.Space for the pod🎙️ Why is there no upside down US flag emoji? So very sorry, 🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦 and the 🇪🇺 😩
@rigg.lgbt
Senior Queer. Bi Chaos Gremlin. 🦇🤘🔶️🏳️🌈 🐝🍆 💙💜💖 🦀🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵🦀 Autistic. Arthritic. Boozy. Polyamorous. Mother. Yorkshire. Cinephile (esp Horror). Whovian (6). Atheist. Occultist. Foodie. Metalhead. Lib dem. Reluctant accepter of the label "goth". Often Sweary
@rdimitry.bsky.social
I cannot bring a world quite round, Although I patch it as I can. https://onsenpunk.com/
@404media.co
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
@swopbehindbars.bsky.social
Sex Worker Community Support Line - 1-877-776-2004 - Chat for support on our website at www.swopbehindbars.org We create Community from the Inside Out!
@matpringle.bsky.social
Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
@leahtigers.bsky.social
"Queer theory running riot," according to my detractors. www.trickymothernature.com
@gillpartington.bsky.social
Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
@coimeas.bsky.social
ph.d. ann an litreachas coimeasach (fantasachd is ficsean-saidheansa). sgrìobhadair. e/esan | ph.d. in comparative literature (fantasy and sci-fi). he/him https://anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/
@lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social
The @baftss.bsky.social special interest group for LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies. Message us or email lgbtqscreenstudies@gmail.com
@fictionable.bsky.social
The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world. Find us at https://fictionable.world
@drlornagibb.bsky.social
Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book out 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also biographer and novelist. Once a phonologist..
@youngwriterspen.bsky.social
A worldwide network of young writers united by PEN International's 100-year history defending freedom of expression, promoting literature and cross border solidarity. Amplifying young voices ignored or marginalised with a focus on shared future challenges
@thediyora.bsky.social
journalist, writer, progressive comms🌿 hothouse bookclub co-organiser email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com website: diyorashadijanova.xyz she/they
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
Antifa goat dairy and beer garden in Field Store (Houston) Texas. We make cheese and trouble. Buy stuff: https://blueheronfarmcajeta.com/
@fromtheperiphery.com
Producers of @thefirethesetimes.com, @mutualaidpod.bsky.social, From The Periphery Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and more to come. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperipher
@thefirethesetimes.com
The Fire These Times is a podcast by writer and researcher Elia @ayoub.bsky.social and friends connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.” Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@ayoub.bsky.social
I do @thefirethesetimes.com + co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com +Editor shado-mag.com + affiliate fellow @post-growth.bsky.social + Newsletter @ Hauntologies.net + @syriapodcast.bsky.social @thestartrekpod.bsky.social From 🇱🇧🇵🇸 in 🇬🇧
@charliechar.bsky.social
Documentary person doing documentary things. Formerly of the Guardian.
@artreview.bsky.social
The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949. Sign up to our newsletter: https://artreview.com/newsletters/ Shop: https://shop.artreview.com
@zinovievletter.bsky.social
Of course I hate the reign of the bourgeois The reign of cops and priests But I hate still more the man who does not hate it
@howard2home.bsky.social
#HowardAlum | Fun Sized | Lifelong learner | Author: 🆕 Understanding Octavia E. Butler (2025, USC Press) and #SheBitesBack | Co-editor: Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler | I’m the red ninja turtle https://linktr.ee/drkrparker
@madelinepotter.bsky.social
ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
@tendemands.bsky.social
#TenForJustice: The Road to Abolition • Founded 2020 • Harm Reduction, Decriminalization, Decarceration, Reparations, Dual Power, Mutual Aid, Community Defense, and Transformative Justice • web.archive.org/web/20240622201837/https://www.tenforjustice.com/
@peterwelsh68.bsky.social
Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells Somerset. Green Runner. Late rosette adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
@jamiejhagen.bsky.social
Feminist lesbian asking queer questions about peace & security | she/her | Manchester based | Lecturer in global politics, University of Manchester | Jamiejhagen.com DYKES FOR TRANS RIGHTS Usually looking at birds. @jamielovezbirdz (IG)
@sgoodyear.bsky.social
Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
@chitawei.bsky.social
https://www.instagram.com/taweichi/ Author of #TheMembranes (Queer, Scifi, from Taiwan)
@mariannedhe.bsky.social
crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer | contributing writer at Truthout and Yes! Magazine | marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
@kieronmoore.bsky.social
Filmmaker, write some things, edit some things others have written, not in Vampire Academy.
@petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social
Heritage guy at @nenature.bsky.social Posting Bewick on main every day 'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how engaging with nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
@victoriaiy.bsky.social
Literary translator (Arabic and English), writer, cat mom. NCW and BCLT alumna. My first children's picture book "Zaghloul" in Arabic is out now: https://tinyurl.com/2s3arjnz https://victoriaissa.com/
@drbenwhitham.bsky.social
Senior Policy and Research Officer at Refugee Action | Research Associate at SOAS | Assistant Instructor at Tiger Crane Kung Fu, London | Trade unionist, martial artist, antifascist. Views my own. https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/ben-whitham
@giuliasfilms.bsky.social
BFI Southbank: Season curator "Chasing the Real" / Programme & Research Coordinator + MicroMacro Film. Views my own.
@kellycrimebooks.bsky.social
Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, The Bones of It, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming: True Crime Poetry, and more. Member of Femina Culpa
@jrobb773.bsky.social
Agender lesbian menace. 🏴 anarchist. “The Last Starfighter” superfan. Neurodivergent but also very annoying. (she/her)
@isaac-fellman.bsky.social
Writer and archivist. NOTES FROM A REGICIDE (just out!), THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI (Fall '22), DEAD COLLECTIONS (Spring '22), THE BREATH OF THE SUN ('18, Lambda winner). He/him. 🏳️⚧️ Rep Kate McKean. .
@filmsradiance.bsky.social
Independent distribution company releasing classic films on Blu-ray
@fspnwu.bsky.social
The Freelance Solidarity Project is a union of digital media workers raising labor standards across our industry. Part of @thenwu.bsky.social
@trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
British author of foul-mouthed fantasy series The Cruel Gods 📚 Lover of indie books and video games 🎮 They/Them Enby 💛🤍💜🖤 Supporter of 🏳️⚧️ Visit my website at TrudieSkies.com The Cruel Gods Series: https://mybook.to/TheCruelGods
@alecfinlay.bsky.social
artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
@berthadochouse.bsky.social
The UK's only documentary cinema, based in Curzon Bloomsbury
@wfthn.bsky.social
Exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. Next conference: DWFTH7, Lincoln, 18-20 July 2025 Website: https://wfthn.com/