Blacksky Starter Pack
Blacksky is where culture happens on the Bluesky app. This starter pack is a selection of accounts and feeds popular with Bluesky's community of Black users.
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@rudyfraser.com
@capitalb.bsky.social
News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta: @capitalbgary.bsky.social & @capitalbatl.bsky.social
@thetriibe.com
Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍 Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation. 💻: thetriibe.com 📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
@bigesqbae.bsky.social
Counsel @ Holon Law: TM attorney/Outside General Counsel for Content Creators/Music Pros/Videogame/Anime industries. Data Privacy Law nerd. Studio Mahō VP. Ghost Pokémon Gym Leader. 1922. **views are my own** Mayor of BlueSky - It’s said in fun, relax.
@nnedi.bsky.social
*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
@blackazizanansi.bsky.social
@sharpiepls.com
vlogging thru life as an irl gamer girl #SharpieVLOG 🐣 she/her 😘 🎤 • host of @GDoCExpo.com & #DreamCon 📻 • podcasts : @fgcast.com sponsored by @playstation.com via #PlayStationPlaymakers more about me • www.sharpiepls.com
@solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
@kendrawrites.com
What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that. Climate reporter based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
@chantalalive.bsky.social
Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the 2022 debut novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS. She/her https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
@mekka.mekka-tech.com
Building Digital Ecosystems at Google. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke He/him.
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
@tranniehathaway.bsky.social
[Ae/she] 🏳️⚧️ #WontBeErased Legally {Unhuman}. Screenwriting, bimbohood, transsexualism, California, bodily autonomy, judaism. AuDHD porcelain doll. You are the revolution. https://linktr.ee/honeyriver discord: aetheria11
@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
@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
@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
@cora.bsky.social
Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
national security adviser at popeyes louisiana kitchen | aka revrrlewis | he/him/🏳️🌈 |📍new orleans
@mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social
maryland’s favorite daughter brooklyn’s finest gal a giddy little thrill at a reasonable price 🇵🇸
@jongraywb.bsky.social
Artist/Writer for IDW Sonic & Disney Comics! 💫 He/Him 💫 SCAD & SVA Sequential Art Professor! 💫 Black & Trans Lives Will Always Matter 💫 Comics & Animation Nut! 💫 Pun Nut! 💫 Big Goof! 💫 Big POYO?! 💫 Chill, Friendly Space for Chill, Friendly People 💫 🌈 + 🍉 💫
@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
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
@gothamgirlblue.com
Defiance posting. Vibes: Rancid 🟠 Not a Democrat anymore. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
@pwh3.bsky.social
Photographer in New York City 🗽 | BikeNYC 🚲 | N95 😷 | All photos & videos by me 📷 | Feel free to DM anytime Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/pwh3_nyc
@euqinimodart.bsky.social
Freelance black Illustrator + Designer and comic colorist, I love history :) | Mtg, Netflix, UMG Records Inc, PRH, Scholastic, Harper Collins Website: www.dominiqueramsey.com Archive: dominiqueramseyillustration.com
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
@miriamboosh.bsky.social
Mental health, artist, activist. On a recovery journey Co-host @seedsirl 🌱 We will be ok or we won’t. Irish & Sudanese 🇮🇪🇸🇩 https://linktr.ee/MiriamBoosh
@wagatwe.com
antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers 🇰🇪🇧🇸 twitter.com/wagatwe wagatwe.com
@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
@link.spacelawshitpost.me
The Bluesky Sage of Shitposts and Space Law. Bluesky Elder. Apex User. Profile: Cartoon AJ drawn by @atlastalos.bsky.social. Banner: “I am not going to bury my account, my account is going to bury me.” - John Q.
@ironspike.bsky.social
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics. Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation. https://ironcircus.com Executive Producer, Lackadaisy. Writer, Cartoonist. webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Editor-at-Large at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America.
@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.
@sorayanadiamcdonald.com
I write about culture, history, and power. Pulitzer finalist for criticism. currently: working on a book previously: The Undefeated, WaPo (Pre-Bezos, mostly) she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@phillewis.bsky.social
detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
im gita they/them cofounder of aftermath.site gita@aftermath.site
@rudyfraser.com
Founder & CEO, @blacksky.app Building community networks and technologies blackskyweb.xyz + wethepeople.nyc move fast and break chains; revolution now; not tomorrow—now. 🏴☠️ 🔗: https://linkat.blue/rudyfraser.com