Arielle Zibrak
feminisms and popular culture
*12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN*
Guilty Pleasures (NYU)
Writing Against Reform (UMass)
more words: LARB, Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, Millions, NYer, etc.
Prof @ UWyo - views own
www.ariellezibrak.com
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Cultural Critics
A good place to start figuring out the culture.
@tangledwilderness.bsky.social
Producers of radical culture Podcasts: Live Like the World is Dying, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, The Spectacle https://www.tangledwilderness.org/ https://www.patreon.com/c/strangersinatangledwilderness/
@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social
Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the nearly 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. She/Her/Hers
@docsamantha.bsky.social
Professor of Public Health @ Deakin, Australia. Editor-in-Chief @healthpromint.bsky.social Board Member ICARA. Commercial and political determinants of health with current projects on: gambling, fossil fuels, menopause, conflicts of interest.
@nml-dc.bsky.social
Former sociologist, lawyer, AIDS activist, and union organizer. Queer parent managing variable disability. Still punk AF. 🖤 they/she Fight like hell for the living.
@monicalmercado.bsky.social
so-called lady scholar and scholar of ladies | usually writing or thinking about Catholic girlhoods, female rage, feminist interventions in the museum, and convent road trips 🚗📚👩🏻💻🎀 | @colgate.edu prof | she/her
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social
New York Times opinion columnist; MSNBC contributor; author.
@jennismovingcastle.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology. Medical Sociology. Health Disparities. 🔮
@pgagliardi.bsky.social
Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player Buy ALL PLAY AND NO WORK from Temple U Press: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/all-play-and-no-work
@dytsras.bsky.social
Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, Eagles stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, some ratchet stuff. Till I can come up with something better 🤷🏾♂️
@katiepryal.bsky.social
❡ #Bipolar and #Autistic author / speaker ❡ Mental health & #neurodiversity expert. She/her. ❡ Free Substack on mental health and writing: pryalnews.com ❡ Books: pryalbooks.com ❡ Book me to speak: pryalspeaks.com
@cejacobson.bsky.social
Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University newsletter on cultural heritage x fashion: luxelibris.substack.com writing, projects, frivolity, etc: linktr.ee/cejacobson
@mollybrrown.bsky.social
Reference & Outreach Archivist (the ‘grammer behind the curtain for @NU_Archives) | empathy through history | opinions & exclamation points are my own | she/hers
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
@ssag.bsky.social
Established in 2023 to promote and advance the study of the American Gothic through research, teaching, and publication.
@triproftri.bsky.social
Director, Public Programming, College of Humanities & Arts + Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed, *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* PI, DH@CSU Consortium. *Forget Me Not: Rise of British Literary Annual 1823-1835* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
@penamerica.bsky.social
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
@joliebraun.bsky.social
Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about self-publishing, zines, cookbooks. Book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL, 1930s movies, neighborhood walks. https://joliebraun.com/
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
@emptywheel.bsky.social
Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!
@chanda.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof.: Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Physics ⚛️ 🔭 & Black Feminist Science Studies 🧪 Writer 📚: #DisorderedCosmos #EdgeOfSpaceTime #CosmosIsABlackAesthetic Web: chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
@shannimcg.bsky.social
Professor at UNC. Principal investigator at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, data, news. BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
@kmhemphill.bsky.social
Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary
@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.
@sferber.bsky.social
Executive editor for American and world history @ Oxford University Press in NY * baker * tea drinker * coxswain * Yorkie servant. Contact me about books at susan.ferber@oup.com. No DM pitches, please. (All opinions my own.)
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@wendylrouse.bsky.social
Professor, Historian, Author of Queer History of the Suffrage Movement & Her Own Hero: Origins of Women's Self-Defense, History Teacher Prep, #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈🗃️ WendyLRouse.com
@eagonzalez.bsky.social
Independent historian based in the DMV, Southern history/ women’s history/ Black club women/ lady managers/ late 19th early 20th c. #AuDHD, she/they, many jumbled and random thoughts #womenalsoknowhistory
@burnidge.bsky.social
Historian of religion and politics in the US. Researching “progressive” political and religious movements and teaching undergraduates about religious diversity in the US and what they can do with their Religious Studies majors.
@suzzzanna.bsky.social
Historian and author of Oxford’s “Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism” (2025) https://www.amazon.com/Disgraced-Scandals-Transformed-American-Protestantism/dp/0197599680/
@econroykrutz.bsky.social
Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
@cblevins.bsky.social
Digital History | US History Professor at CU Denver 📖 Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 📖 cblevins.github.io
@shgape.bsky.social
An organization of historians fostering knowledge of U.S. history from the close of the Civil War through the 1920s https://www.shgape.org/
@gilduran.com
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, meta narratives, network state, crypto cartels. Writes: The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com FrameLab: http://www.theframelab.org “Don't judge a taco by its price.”
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@sari.bsky.social
📌 History Teacher, Writer & Content Creator in NYC 🗣️Speaking Inquiries: @collectivespeakers 👋🏻 sari@saribeth.com https://linktr.ee/saribethrosenberg
@meganotoole.bsky.social
Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
@maggieserota.bsky.social
Twitter’s Maggie Serota. Writer. Frequent podcast guest. maggieserota@substack.com
@davidgilbert.bsky.social
Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/ Got a tip? Get in touch • Email: david.gilbert@wired.com • Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
@katerqburns.bsky.social
Christofascism and Extremism researcher Fluent in Sean Feucht Breast cancer community organizer and survivor. Taungurung [-o-] on Tongva/kizh land 📍LA ✍🏼 https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/authors/kate-burns/ More https://linktr.ee/kateburnschad
@jsweetli.bsky.social
suspended/censored by Elon Musk bc journalism Words in Rolling Stone, The Intercept, The Guardian, POLITICO, The Nation +
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social
Lawyer turned journalist doing what I do at @GlobeOpinion, @MSNBC, #JusticeByDesign, and #SistersInLaw. Snickers's scheduler. Believer in democracy, science and the rule of law. Upcycler. Typos are my love language. From Detroit, in Washington, of Boston.
@1robgunther.bsky.social
producer at Slate's daily news podcast What Next | rob.gunther at slate dot com - audio journalist, podcast producer, illustrator | 1robgunther at gmail
@sarahburris.bsky.social
Reporter @RawStory some at @Alternet & @Salon *opinions might be jokes* Threads: @sarahburris Spoutable: @sarahburris Email: sarah at rawstory.com Oklahomie in Washington, D.C. Animal lover Recovering social media expert Not ready for four more years
@audiosand.bsky.social
National correspondent for NPR covering race, criminal justice, the suburbs, systems of power, "alarmingly divisive" Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
@journo-beth.bsky.social
Writer, reader, nerd. Reporter for The Marshall Project covering criminal (in)justice, esp LGBTQ+, parole, addiction, health. Host of VIOLATION. It's not on us to complete the work—but neither can we stop doing it.
@jennafights4you.bsky.social
Journalist for Transvitae | Women's Studies and Poli Sci Grad | MPA Grad Student | Intersectional Feminist | Political Strategist | https://linktr.ee/jennafights4you | Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️❤️