David Getsy's Starter Pack
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@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@lrb.co.uk
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of politics, literature, history and ideas, published every fortnight. Read: https://lrb.co.uk Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/QUEXT0225B
@davidnemer.com
Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Havard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸 https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
@hyperallergic.com
The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@nelbetancur.bsky.social
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture • 17th and 18th century studies • assistant professor • mountain lover #nelbetancur
@cmonstah.bsky.social
"Elegante y muy cabrona." I labor at the word factory for Alta, WaPo, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW and others. https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
@kwissoker.bsky.social
Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
@parisnoire.bsky.social
Historian @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact @monidrke.bsky.social for talks! Robinmitchellhistorian.com
@mlobelart.bsky.social
Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them. Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
@susanstryker.bsky.social
Trans Studies||Historian||Filmmaker||Settler on Ramaytush Ohlone Land||When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader @dukepress.bsky.social||susanstryker.net||Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
@benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, bad gay, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social’s boyfriend BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022) FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2026) www.benwritesthings.com www.badgayspod.com
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Blackness/editor of The Black Fantastic & professor, but mostly #birds & dog dad, aspiring plant gay https://dredf.org/protect-504/ insta: audio.futurism
@jennifercnash.bsky.social
Professor (Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University); writer; black feminist; mother; WBB fan.
@paisleycurrah.com
My speciality: government decisions on sex classification. Member Institute for Advanced Study. Wrote Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. n+1, Boston Review, New York Review, Yale Review www.paisleycurrah.com
@gracelavery.bsky.social
❤️🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻 ** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
@jackhamilton.bsky.social
Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and pop critic for Slate magazine. Author of JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL AND THE RACIAL IMAGINATION
@hrag.bsky.social
Art Critic Futurist 🧬 Editor-in-chief, Hyperallergic 🗽 Aleppo born, Toronto raised, Brooklyn based I tweet politics & culture because art doesn't exist in a vacuum.
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@periodeye.bsky.social
Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
@greg.org
Artist, writer, publisher of greg dot org: the making of since 2001, "a [Cady] Noland obsessive" —T Mag [avatar: Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M1), Minnay; banner: Derek Jarman's Blue]
@rmesch.bsky.social
I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
@caelkeegan.bsky.social
Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.
@drnikkigreene.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Art History @ Wellesley drnikkigreene.com ✨Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body & the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke UP, 2024) ✨ https://www.dukeupress.edu/grime-glitter-and-glass
@urbaninsideout.bsky.social
xProf: art history, advertising, things NYC. Swimmer, civic cultural advocacy; statue, parks, and advert buff. Author Sculpture in Gotham (Reaktion Books, 2018).
@snelsonus.bsky.social
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. All views are my own.
@afroartnerd.bsky.social
Art historian and HBCU Professor | Author: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic | elizabethchamilton.com Header image: Alison Saar. Tobacco, Indigo, Sugar, Cotton, and Rice (2018)
@georgetakei.bsky.social
I’ve boldly gone into the clear blue yonder. Follow for more recipes and tips.
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her drantjegamble.com
@tinariversryan.bsky.social
Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
@carscott.bsky.social
Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
@maxkoss.bsky.social
🦩 https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/members/max-koss.html 🦩 https://chicago.academia.edu/MaxKoss 🦩 https://periodicals.hypotheses.org/mitglieder/max-koss 🦩 https://www.instagram.com/hot_pink_flamingo [All posts are strictly personal.]
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY: LIVING WITH VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Spending the 2024-25 year at The Huntington Library in California.
@inlandemperor.bsky.social
Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious. ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️
@ahaaamericanart.bsky.social
The Association of Historians of American Art, along with its e-journal Panorama, provides a scholarly forum for the study of American art and culture.
@noisybits.bsky.social
Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧. 👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social. More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio 🚨Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising (Rutgers UP, Apr 2025), with Liz Rosenfeld🚨
@allthebeset.bsky.social
warning signs, bikes and buzzards. and train songs. and sandwiches, apparently
@freyagowrley.bsky.social
Art Historian, makeup aficionado, antiques hoarder, snappy dresser.
@mdsnediker.bsky.social
Professor of American Lit & Poetics at the University of Houston; Emersonian/Thoreauvian/Dickinsonian/Jamesian; author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment (U.Minnesota Press), Jones Very (Ornithopter Press), &c.
@colbychamberlain.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Art History, Cleveland Institute of Art | “Fluxus Administration,” UChicago Press, 2024 | Queens native, Cleveland resident | he/him
@lucywhelan.bsky.social
Art historian, mostly 19-20C France | gender, subjectivity, environments | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Sciences Po, Paris 📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0 📍Durham, UK
@hughryan.bsky.social
Author & queer historian. The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019). I also teach nonfiction in the Bennington MFA program. Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/HughRyan
@getdavid.bsky.social
purveyor of side glances . . . Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History, University of Virginia art history / performance studies / queer studies / trans studies . . . linktr.ee/david.getsy . . .