Writers, artists, beautiful weirdos
Writers, artists, weirdos. Personally, I'm hoping that two out of three ain't bad.
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@lollardfish.bsky.social
@sarannmcd.bsky.social
Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
@medievalrevolt.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
@oliviamesser.bsky.social
texan. editor in chief, the barbed wire. words in rolling stone, marie claire, slate, the daily beast, texas monthly, texas observer etc for texas tips, email: olivia@thebarbedwire.com
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com
@dexanderson.com
Author, they/them. Minneapolis resident and aloha shirt enthusiast. linktr.ee/dexanderson
@assignedmedia.org
An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
@andreagrimes.com
bitch kraken / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com 📰 newsletter: homewiththearmadillo.blog 📧 email: grimesandrea at proton dot me 🛍️ shop: andreagrimes.threadless.com
@jesszimmerman.com
Brief elaboration of a tube. Submission wishlist: http://bit.ly/3Bd1Fbw Women and Other Monsters: http://bit.ly/3BgxyQo
@mappermundi.bsky.social
Editor, Medievalist, Legal Historian, Train Enthusiast, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://mappermundi.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/kerrigorsnaps/ | https://kerrigorsnaps.darkroom.com/
@andrearobertson.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author, historian, would rather be wandering a forest right now. (she/her) andrearobertsonbooks.com
@estherlcuenca.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. (Untenured) Chair of your department. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025).
@infamousfiddler.bsky.social
Fiddle-playing hedonistic madwoman. I play the fiddle with The Tooles, Seanan McGuire, Jack o’the Dust, and other folks! https://linktr.ee/infamousfiddler No Nazi bullshit please.
@susannahpaletz.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor @UMD INFO College. Applied social/org/cross-cultural psychologist. studies teams, culture, creativity, tech, and more. Likes cats, RPGs, etc. Hates MBTI, "you only use 10% of your brain." She/her
@erinmayequade.bsky.social
Wife of @alysemayequade.bsky.social, mom, reproductive justice advocate and MN State Senator. It’s fine to call me EMQ.
@rocinante.bsky.social
Ran a base ball gimmick and now I don’t. Historian and archaeologist working in the Mediterranean; not really sure why I’m here except I missed all the people from the old place.
@heathercorinna.bsky.social
(they/them) Twitter expat. I give good ed. Founder @ Scarleteen; Our Bodies, Ourselves chair. Always teaching, always learning. Queer af, equally tired. Writer of banned books. Relic. Making obscene hand gestures & fighting the good fight since 1970.
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Check my new book: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo229867701.html #slaveryarchive
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
Journalist, activist, and reluctant expert on online harassment and free speech • I write about politics, tech, education, religion, and media #intersectionalfeminism #gender #tech #LGTBQ #womensrights
@jjponcevazquez.bsky.social
Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
@thecelticist.bsky.social
Historian/writer • Maynooth University • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Routledge, 2021) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her.
@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social
Professional economist, amateur bassoonist, and 20x half-marathon runner.
@hyperlexic.bsky.social
Queer East Bay GenX native & parent. He/him. Had my mask pic before the fascists. Created feeds: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kmqa6ybu75bsrh2a7ccavy6g/feed/aaaeenrjnifc4 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kmqa6ybu75bsrh2a7ccavy6g/feed/aaaiig5d5el6m
@homophonous.bsky.social
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
@monicamedhist.bsky.social
I'm an Independent Scholar (https://independentscholar.academia.edu/MonicaHGreen). Daughter #2 of Marlon & Eleanor Green. Focusing on #histmed, Global Health, the Black Death. Latest: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2024.29
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
#PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Strong opinions and typos my urn.
@mariekeyn.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿ Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED 📖: mariekenijkamp.com
@emilyladau.bsky.social
Author of "Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally." Disability rights activist who lives life on wheels. ♿️
@brandontensley.bsky.social
Now: National Politics Reporter, Capital B, a Black-focused independent newsroom. Before: National Political Writer, CNN. Writing a book on Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight for 33 1/3. Email: brandon.tensley@capitalbnews.org | Signal: btensley.53
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@hannahnpbowman.bsky.social
Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, MA in Religious Studies/Theology. hannahnpbowman.com christiansforabolition.org Let's tell revolutionary stories together She/her
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
@profmsinha.bsky.social
President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
@douglasmack.bsky.social
Snacks, Americana, and other curiosities. 📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (Norton, 2017). 🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@michaeldthomas.bsky.social
Caregiver for awesome daughter w/ Aicardi syndrome. 8-time Hugo-winning Publisher/Editor w/ my wife, @lynnemthomas, at @uncannymagazine. He/Him, They/Them.
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
@thatrabbicohen.bsky.social
Happy Brooklynite. Lefty in all the ways. Rabbi of West End Synagogue (She/Her/Hers) www.rabbiemilycohen.com
@ecourtem.bsky.social
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
@marissalingen.bsky.social
Science fiction writer, poet, essayist. Minnesota nerd par excellence. Tisanes, leaves, Moomins, snow. She/her. Repped by Kurestin Armada. www.marissalingen.com tinyletter.com/MarissaLingen
@snipy.bsky.social
Words at Public Notice, DailyKos, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
@vox-magica.bsky.social
historian of ancient christianity | researcher of magic & heresy | neurospicy | author of smoke & mirrors (OUP 2025) and magic and heresy (CUP 2025) | she/her
@novicsara.bsky.social
Author TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR 🧏🏻 deafie | 🌈 they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly https://linktr.ee/Novic
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNBC Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.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
@liamhogan.bsky.social
Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/ hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
@kimrhodes.bsky.social
Operating “on the balance of four forces… identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.” -TP She/her also autistic
@jeremylittau.com
I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
@gorskon.bsky.social
"Antagonist of Bhattacharya" (per Paul Thacker) & "damaging to science" (per Jay Bhattacharya). Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine and Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog (sciencebasedmedicine.org). X/Twitter & Threads: @gorskon. (He/him)
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
@hilzoy.bsky.social
Ethics R Us. Baltimore. Refugee from Twitter, blogging, and who knows what else.
@patrickiber.bsky.social
Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. I teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Write books about Cold War culture and propaganda. Have written for the set of all publications that are not members of themselves
@epicciuto.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit.
@princejvstin.com
Fan Writer Editor at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social Hugo Finalist 2025 (Journey Planet) More pieces at @skiffyandfanty.com @reactorsff.bsky.social @file770.bsky.social and elsewhere! Podcaster. #photography I'm just this guy, you know? He/him.
@victorerikray.bsky.social
Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President Elect, American Sociological Association. BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
@mariafarrell.bsky.social
Irish writer and keynote speaker: let's rewild the internet! Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her http://www.mariafarrell.com https://buttondown.email/MariaFarrell
@pamherd.bsky.social
Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@violanorth.bsky.social
musician, arts administrator, Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him "A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, SFF editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 11x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head of RBML at Illinois; Verity podcast; Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. I don’t auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
@herberthistory.bsky.social
Dad | Kentuckian in Colorado | History Dragon| Creator of Historians At The Movies #HATM | Historians At The Movies Podcast| Reckoning with Jason Herbert| Cuban coffee connoisseur| I aim to misbehave https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
@kellybarnhill.bsky.social
I used to be an author. But that was in another life. Books, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you. kellybarnhill.com
@naomikritzer.bsky.social
Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com
@wiswell.bsky.social
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and development, US migration(s) and citizenship law and policy history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie.
@johnchu.bsky.social
The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop
@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
@louisathelast.bsky.social
Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
@adriandaub.bsky.social
"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com
@gwenda.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
@profgabriele.com
Professor, medievalist, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & now OATHBREAKERS (Dec 2024) nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com buttondown.com/modernmedieval
@hazelmonforton.com
senior writer and narrative designer 📚📝 presently Blizzard 💛⚔️ previously Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀 personal account 🍞🌹 20th century lit phd 🎓🗡 she/her ✨ atx 🌻🦇
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7 Personal account
@emilyctamkin.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@pnh.nielsenhayden.com
VP and editor-at-large at the Tor Publishing Group. Series editor, Tor Essentials. Winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award for editorial work. Opinions mine, not Tor’s. Happily working out of Tucson, AZ. He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
@dansaltzstein.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Projects and Collaborations, NYTimes. Queens, NYC, cocktail and rye enthusiast. Ruthless cosmopolitan.
@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social
✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨ @theemancipator.org contributing senior editor (opinions are my own) Culture/food writer | illustrator | semiotician | Trekkie She/her
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Deputy editor, Splinter, covering various horrors. Previous: Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Davelevitan{at}gmail.com Signal: @davelevitan.26
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Author+Historian 🧪🗃️, Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES #trans rights history. Latest mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her
@juliaserano.bsky.social
author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
@juliaazari.bsky.social
Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said. https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | alleged "left-wing commie-god" | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, some 18th-19th c. history | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Sports takes included for no extra charge. he/him.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true). unfortunately, I care about power lines now she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Deputy Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
@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
@trance.bsky.social
Professional Dominatrix and erotic hypnotic Mistress Making the world a little better, one orgasm at a time She/Her https://cash.app/$MistressEmma https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3LT3Y04L704R1 NiteFlirt.com/Trance
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.