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@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people. Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@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
@footage.bsky.social
Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
@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.
@mguariglia.bsky.social
Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Visiting Professor at Emory. Book on race and the origins of modern policing out now! MatthewGuariglia.com
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
@labuzamovies.com
Researcher, IATSE Local 600. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily contributor) plabuza @ gmail. www.labuzamovies.com
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Join #AcademicChatter for support & community in higher education.
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@dukepress.bsky.social
Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@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.
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
assistant prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
@marisollebron.bsky.social
Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social
lovesick audiophile + heartbroken reader + book maker most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
@jttremblay.bsky.social
assoc. prof at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
@robinjames.bsky.social
editor & independent scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Bylines Jezebel, Guardian, LARB, Real Life, etc. no views, just vibes. its-her-factory.com
@chowleen.bsky.social
@chowleen elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times. Duke prof, APSI Dir of Grad Studies, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Taiwan: Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher 周成蔭 #everynightapoem
@pamhutch.bsky.social
Critic, historian, curator | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
@maxliboiron.bsky.social
Doing Feminist & Anticolonial science through plastic monitoring. Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021). They/them, Michif, 2S, hermit. CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
@theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
@benspky.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
@lmesseri.bsky.social
anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
@elotroalex.bsky.social
faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social
CathyDavidson.com. Advocate for activist pedagogy, student success. Author “The New Education” etc. Cofounder HASTAC.org ("world's first academic social network"--NSF). Science fiction fan. Lover of oceans. Opinions and typos my own. Also: Breathe
@naylandblake.bsky.social
Artist, Auntie, Bear, BIPOC, Educator, Enby, Fat, Femme. Aspiring cranky crone.They/Them. Archive/shambles/home at www.naylandblake.net I love it when you make things.
@cmolanphy.bsky.social
Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate's #WhylsThisSongNo1? Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)
@driftinghouse.bsky.social
prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
@cinemiasma.bsky.social
film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
@jordanstein.bsky.social
Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies, university college dublin. film/tv + real estate since 2008 • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/ https://people.ucd.ie/martha.shearer/
@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations open house hours: post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/109677062460615838 (account monitored by all lab staff)
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
@gabriellehecht.bsky.social
Writer/Prof/Anti-disciplinary https://gabriellehecht.org Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures 🇵🇷1st genx2 • cisbi♀• proud but terrified parent of 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧠♾️
@jadedid.bsky.social
knitting thoughts and yarn together. scholar on the limits of empathy. academic libraries. ed/tech & student wellness. the other side of empathy (Duke, 2023) 30% off with code E23DAVIS https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-other-side-of-empathy
@suchmayer.bsky.social
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.
@jonathansterne.bsky.social
sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats -- Montreal https://sterneworks.org
@damorton.bsky.social
Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen and After Midnight, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper. Los Angeles/Texas https://damorton.wordpress.com/
@hesterblum.bsky.social
A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at Penn State. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
@violetlucca.bsky.social
Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
@kmckim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Film at Georgia Tech. Writes/reads about ecocrit, joy, cinephilia, time, kids, trees, justice, music(als). Clumsy but earnest yogi, pianist, gardener. “My heart is moved by all I cannot save" (Adrienne Rich) www.kristimckim.com (she/her)