Duchess of Umbrage
Real good-lookin bummed-out patriarchy-blamer posting from Dreadful Acres Farm in the TX Hill Country. Known in another lifetime as Twisty Faster.
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@kristenwarner.bsky.social
Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility. I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
@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
@dranderson15.bsky.social
I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@blackpoetics.bsky.social
Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things. Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening. Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
@seminewblack.bsky.social
poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
@wunpini.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. | Journo/Scholar Views=Mine 📝 Al Jazeera, The Washington Post Pronouns: o, ŋuna, o dini Gonje🪕🥁🎤, Feminist, Dagbana🦁 https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/african-women-in-digital-spaces
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@nneka.bsky.social
diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | professional yapper | accidental history prof | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh
@tnflorvil.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/@RadInstitute Fellow 2023-24/Working on a biography of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/ https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
@authorwinifred.bsky.social
Writes lots of Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down. Student Midwife. Voodoonauts Fellow '22. Hurston Wright Speculative Fellow '23. She/Her. AuthorWinifred, no matter where you are, no matter how far. winifredburton.com I block AI/NFT/Crypto accounts
@ajuanmance.bsky.social
Artist, Writer, Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus of African American literature at Mills College. Picture book WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? is out now. https://www.ajuanmance.com #comics 🖤🏳️🌈
@cclaremdmph.bsky.social
Chair @sunydownstate Dept of ObGyn Tenured Professor College of Med & School of Public Health, Former Asso Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, ObGyn, my views, she/her/hers, on Lenapehoking lands (Brooklyn, NY), personal account, supporter of climate equity
@brandicd.bsky.social
Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡. https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
@arrianna-planey.bsky.social
Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account
@dewhaley.bsky.social
artist::writer::learner::vegan::swimmer::yogi:: peloton-addict::american-studies::literature::cinema::pop-culture maven::author of BWiS.
@kopalo.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Georgetown University. Washington, DC. More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
@taralconley.com
media and journalism prof | frank moretti once corrected my use of ‘in lieu of’ for ‘in light of’ in a term paper | making a film about my hometown | trekkie 🖖🏾 taralconley.org
@drlaurian.bsky.social
Black femme anthropologist | Author of HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra http://bit.ly/42KE9Dv she/her/dr | vann professor of racial justice | associate professor | Relationship Anarchist | diaspora daughter | ambivert | typo queen
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@chenjerai.bsky.social
Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
@dumilm.bsky.social
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.” NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
@jolyonbt.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Faking Liberties (2019), Drawing on Tradition (2012); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025). Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17249. Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
@mayascade.bsky.social
creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com 💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + once the scholar in residence at the library of congress. always a film curator + writer + curious about the world. based in los angeles.
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@owasow.bsky.social
Asst Prof, UC Berkeley, Political Science. Study protests, stats & race: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of
@miasshaw.bsky.social
2023 NYU provost postdoc • 2022 Ford dissertation fellow • PhD @PennGSE • storyteller using art, tech, and design • she/her • www.miasshaw.com
@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science. I think about identity, stigma, race, and politics more than any normal person should. Lover of life. Pro-democracy. People should dance more. Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
@elysabethgrace.bsky.social
Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries. Advice: don't test me & this Aquarius will leave you alone www.elysabethgrace.com www.themargohendricksexperience.com
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator. Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University. More here: neillewisjr.com Personal account
@downeydavia.bsky.social
I study federalism, local politics & policy in cities post-disaster. I also helped end gerrymandering in MI. I do a lot of yoga. 1st gen Ph.D. RT≠ endorsements. Read my work (gratuitous plug): https://tinyurl.com/ms7b9r6a. Send ur best memes. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼
@mixedlinguist.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, especially in politics and human-computer interaction. Trivia person, marathoner, CF-L1 coach. LA & the Bay! https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
@dianawilliams.bsky.social
Santa Monica based legal Historian. Afro-DiaspoRican. 🇵🇷 Safe streets aficionado. Finishing book on interracial marriage in 19th century Louisiana. #blacksky
@pratherlab.bsky.social
Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist. Critical Cognitive Science www.criticalcognition.org
@cecillia.com.br
Co-Founder @intercept.com.br | Founder/Exec. Director, @fogocruzado.org.br (Open data on armed violence in 🇧🇷) | Caixa Postal 11599 CEP: 22.020-959 📩 contato@ceciliaolliveira.com
@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social
Abolitionist & political scientist who researches Black politics, feminism, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. 🔗: linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd 📚: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883/black-women-taught-us-by-jenn-m-jackson-phd/
@moyazb.bsky.social
Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado. https://linktr.ee/moyabailey
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
@nisslbody.bsky.social
Black Indigenous mom biologist epidemiologist homeless services data analyst. Racial equity docent. Portlander. Big fan of the creatures that live in my house. MS, MPH. Influencer influencer.
@swcarpenter.bsky.social
Cultural Anthropologist Sometime Comic Creator Former Archaeologist AKA Brother-Story
@zraresearch.bsky.social
Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry. Always speaking for me.
@hyres376.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the U of Utah | African American exp., teacher and student activism, the American HS, and curriculum + pedagogy; Opinions my own. For more on my work, see: https://linktr.ee/hyres376
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. & Presidential Prof. of Communication @AnnenbergPenn. If you can't tell the difference between what's true and what you wish were true, take your business elsewhere.
@copperbae.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Immunobiology at University of Arizona, Assoc Dean Basic science and grad studies for College of Medicine-Tucson, NSURP.org director. Long live copper!
@kurosarakokuou.bsky.social
History PhD candidate researching the appropriation of urban subcultures. HNIC of Rotating Souls Records. Afrofuturist DJ. Kurosarakokuou on socials. Founder of Krog Codex Graffiti Digital Archive. @krogcodexofficial.bsky.social Krogcodex.org
@povertyscholar.bsky.social
Prof @Cornell studying: power, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing) |Author: Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism & Unequal Politics |Builder|Believer
@oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati | Book: Who Pays for Diversity? March 2025 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/who-pays-for-diversity/paper