Queer Scholars/Activists
We are an assortment of queer scholar-activist folks working to create a fun, thoughtful, energised, and generally fabulous community. 📚🌈 ✨
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@senthorun.bsky.social
@orlaegan1.bsky.social
Founder Cork LGBT Archive http://corklgbtarchive.com Author: Diary Of An Activist http://diaryofanactivist.com and Queer Republic of Cork Books Director: LOAFERS Documentary and I'm Here, I'm Home, I'm Happy documentary
@drshannak.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️they/them 🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM 💋Educator | Researcher | Activist 💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme ✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist 🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22 Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹 https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
@drcompton.bsky.social
Sociology Prof (social psyc, methodology, and some demography!). Usually thinking about food, sexualities, masculinities, and sneakers. 🏳️⚧️ He/they/them/him NOLA/DC
@lawsadrag.bsky.social
Drag & Law academic network. A "dragademic" network, if you will lawsadrag.org.uk
@ralistelvanni.bsky.social
A level 39 Gay Guy living in Vegas! Husband 👨❤️👨 Dog dad to three pups 🐶🐶🐶 Gaymer 🎮🏳️🌈 Bookworm 📖 Vegan 🌱 Starting cancer treatment, every little bit helps! 💕 Venmo: @Richard-Lee-May
@rbullingham.bsky.social
SL at Uni of Gloucestershire - research focusing on LGBTQ+ and contact sport. AfPE and Active Glos board member. WiSEAN exec board. Views are my own.
@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social
Lecturer in public policy & tech, sociologist, tangata tiriti, feminist, geek, coffee-vampire, lesbian, urbanist, electric motorcyclist, ex-Chicagoan, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her ❤️🖤🤍 https://about.me/sarahhendricabickerton/
@joejukes.bsky.social
> cultural geography + queer theory < Research Fellow in Sexualities @ Leeds Beckett Graduate Teacher in Geography @ Bristol Interested in queer rurality, asexualities, video + affective enquiry https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-joe-jukes/
@hokkolorob.bsky.social
• He/they • Socialist • Queer not gay • Husband and cat mum • AuDHD • Children‘s social worker • Free Palestine • Trans rights are human rights • London
@marielreiss.bsky.social
Postdoc @zfk-mr.bsky.social Uni Marburg & @trace-center.de Focus: human rights/LGBTIQ+ rights, regional organizations, international relations. East and Southern Africa, Europe. She/her 🏳️🌈
@outofthestacks.bsky.social
PhD Philosophy in History (ABD) Queer Artist, Historian, & Library worker Expect some dissertation musings, performance art, Chautauqua Movement, reenactments, queer theory, book discussion reads, and research assistances (aka fur babies) postings.
@iliastrispiotis.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Leeds. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/banning-conversion-therapy-9781509961153/
@badgayspod.bsky.social
a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. in our eighth season. listen at badgayspod.com or wherever you find podcasts subscribe to our monthly chat and advice show at patreon.com/badgayspod
@anacristinasantos.bsky.social
Sociologist. Focus: queer ageing. Senior Researcher in LGBTQI+ Studies @ces-uc.bsky.social Centre for Social Studies (CES) 2× @ERC_Research winner🏆 Executive Committee @ESA_Sociology Co-Director of Feminist Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
@jesshardie.bsky.social
Sociologist @ Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times https://tinyurl.com/bdep3r4a and Approaches to Mixed Methods Research https://tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8. she/her | queer | radical, apparently
@becomingothers.bsky.social
Writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, queerfeminism(s), & film photography they/them University of Kassel (MA) / INTERACT, FU Berlin / queeranalogdarkroom (QAD)
@iamkatylees.bsky.social
Author & psychotherapist. THE TRANS GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING is out now. QUEER MINDS is coming October 2025! https://linktr.ee/IAmKatyLees
@parkesland.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (they/them). Fabulous.
@kim.town
She/they. Studio lead @gfsc.community. Aka kimadactyl. Community organiser, software developer (attempting to retire), researcher. Trans and very tired. Mastodon: @kim@social.gfsc.studio Work: https://gfsc.studio WIP blog: https://kim.town
@aketchum22.bsky.social
PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
@drdanielgillis.bsky.social
Canadian Prof & Interdisciplinary Researcher: public health & ecological risk assessment, community-engaged software design, pedagogy, digital divide. He/Him. #2SLGBTQIAPlusInSTEM https://allmylinks.com/the-daniel-gillis
@anuncivilphd.bsky.social
Library & Info Sciences Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo & '22 Lynd Ward Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham and lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
@linoesilva.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Faculty Member at UFBA - The Federal University of Bahia. Author of "Minoritarian Liberalism: a Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela." (2022).
@cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social
Sociologue 🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes 🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique 🔧 Travail invisible des données 🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique 📟 Quantification et standardisation
@lexibreen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, School of health and care sciences, University of Lincoln, co-chair UoL LGBTQIA+ network. Activist in intersex and trans issues. Trustee of the Klinefelter’s syndrome association and Icon UK, UCU LGBT committee.
@thomaswillett.bsky.social
✨Doctoral Researcher | Writing queer experiences 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️| Co-Founder & Executive Director @EqualityAmplified.org.uk | Global Content Manager | All views are my own ✨
@ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social
Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media/Anti-Trans Ideologies). Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
@cantonwiner.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies Follow me for thoughts about (a)sexuality, gender, and society Subscribe to my free asexuality research newsletter: https://substack.com/home/post/p-151034229?source=queue
@jenrinaldi.bsky.social
Legal studies associate professor | queercrip theorist | committed to deinstitutionalization and prison and police abolition | she/her
@hermioneclone.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
@liamwignall.bsky.social
In no particular order: Academic, Psychologist, Kink/BDSM/Sex Researcher, Gay, ADHD, Weightlifter, Reader. Co-Editor: Psychology & Sexuality www.thekinkscale.com
@slamble1.bsky.social
Community organiser & academic. Queer. Feminist. Abolitionist. https://linktr.ee/s.lamble
@smrodriguez.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own www.smrodriguez.com
@gilbertcaluya.bsky.social
gay, Filipino-Australian / Senior Lecturer in Gender & Sexuality Studies / researches power, race, intimacy and everyday culture
@fiercemum.bsky.social
Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
@presentlyincorrect.bsky.social
I take my cats on walks, work on queering housing and social policy, take action where I can, and knit socks. 📍Edinburgh 🏢 Research Associate, York Law School 🏳️⚧️ Organise with @rtie.org (@resistingtransphobiaedi on instagram) they/them
@inclusivelucie.bsky.social
linguist » social scientist » privacy pro| author of Queer Roma, Routledge 2021| applied social sciences PhD| queer intersectionality| CIPM| multilingual GAC chair| opinions mine 🏳️🌈🇧🇲🇨🇿 •sex•gender•race•ethnicity•privacy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7123-702X
@obsqueer.bsky.social
📚Transgender Refugees (Palgrave) & Queer & Trans African Mobilities (ZED) East African Queer & Trans Displacement (2024 Bloomsbury) 📚•Fellow @iciberlin & Research Assoc @ACMSWits • Co-founder @ALMN_research • 🏳️⚧️ (They|She) 🏳️⚧️ www.bcamminga.com
@natacha.bsky.social
Trans woman 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist & Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. All opinions expressed here are my own. Link to academic publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy “Thomas Mann: “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
@thepinkgoddess.bsky.social
47 (She/Her) Trans woman. Archaeologist researching transgender archaeology. Promoting Trans Body Positivity. Posting #Gender, #Archaeology & my tours. Berlin. London. Rome. Vienna. 🏛️🏺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ For tours: https://archaeologyonline.simplybook.it/v2/#book
@dreanyc123.bsky.social
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
@lisaduggan.bsky.social
Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
@scottlong1980.bsky.social
He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
@ebj.bsky.social
Professor of Law and Head of School of Law, Media and Gender at SOAS, University of London | Writing on British Colonial Indentureship, Race, Migration eddiebrucejones.com
@heritagelaw.bsky.social
Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney. Specialized in international law, primarily cultural heritage law, human rights, and a bunch of other fun things. Let's chat / hang!
@svogler.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Sociology @ U of Illinois, studying sexuality, gender, law, and knowledge. Author of Sorting Sexualities. he/him, queer, first-gen stefanvogler.com policingtherainbow.com
@ahmadgreene.com
🏫 professor, writer, lover | ✨ all things black, queer, archival, artsy |📚 author of *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans* http://a.co/d/4VuHlQZ ✨views are my own.
@christopherewing.bsky.social
Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places. Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023). he/him.
@katherinefranke.bsky.social
Avid flyfisher & lover of penguins. James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (retired); Founding Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. Author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, and Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality.
@sosateaches.bsky.social
Nation Builder (Teacher) in North Texas ESL-Mexican American Studies-Ballet Folklorico Former DACA/DREAMER Doctor Who Aficionado All opinions are my own Reposts, Follows, & Likes ≠ Endorsement https://linktr.ee/Sosa_Teaches_RISD
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He/They. https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/bakshi-sandeep-en/ http://decolonizingsexualities.org
@queerjudgments.bsky.social
We are a collective of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives who are interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. https://www.queerjudgments.org/
@mohammedia.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Critical Cultural Comm at University of Southern Mississippi. Former Postdoc at CDCSPenn @annenbergpenn.bsky.social. Writing on South Asian queer digital media and teaching Global media and comm cultures. www.mohammedrashid.net
@queerdrew.bsky.social
Critical Human Geographer 🎓 Madonna and Apple TV+ fanatic ✌🏻 Scottish based in Dublin 🌍 Can be found somewhere with Rhys 👬🏳️🌈 he/him
@kerryndrysdale.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at UNSW, Sydney, living/working in nipaluna. LGBTIQA+ social scenes, health and wellbeing, community engagement.
@hashtagstagg.bsky.social
she/her Aussie legal academic who loves queer, feminist and critical theory. At any given time, I have too many pets and need to work more in my garden. I try to be kind, but sometimes the snarkiness wins. Opinions my own and not my employer's.
@katemanlik.bsky.social
Queer unionist. Completing a PhD at MQ, with a broad interest in lesbian AIDS activism in Australia. Associate Research Fellow at UOW. They/she.
@djomeara.bsky.social
PhD under examination | Researching television production culture & gender and sexuality; public relations in creative industries | Lecturer: PR, Comms, Screen, Media Studies | Board Member MQFF
@ayloncohen.bsky.social
teaching feminist political theory at Oxford University & writing a history of manhood democracy through the lens sodomy
@binarythis.bsky.social
She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies researching femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, romance. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️ www.hannahmccann.com.au
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour #FreePalestine
@polqueer.bsky.social
Grupo de investigación interdisciplinario radicado en FFyL-UBA, Argentina. Filosofía aplicada a los problemas del presente. TW, IG, FB, YouT, BSKY: @PolQueer
@jtheilen.bsky.social
they/them — post-doc, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg — international law, human rights, citizenship and migration law — feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives — opinions my own, obviously
@sjvigneault.bsky.social
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950) Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH) https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
@neuro-observant.bsky.social
Neurodivergent. LGBTQ+ 🌈 Passionate about autism advocacy, mental health and research. NIHR work. Curious about many things. Love 🐈, PPI, art and learning Lead creator of this popular PPI resource: https://arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/news/my-ppi-diagram-a-year-o
@dradamjowett.bsky.social
Social psychologist | Academic | LGBTQ+ Research | EDI Advocate | Views my own | he/him
@kaihikaru.bsky.social
Progressive, autistic, polyamorous, transgender, atheist, and neuroethologist. Advocate and educator.
@wiley.pink
feminist geographer, PhD at U of T ✨🧭 web gremlin at https://geoz.one 💖🎉 they/them https://wiley.pink
@josephwillits.bsky.social
Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). http://instagram.com/josephwillits/ https://linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.
@ecpayne.bsky.social
Director, Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI). Qual Research. Edu Policy. Soc of Ed. AAAS Congressional Fellow, 22-23. NYC/DC. New book 2025: Queer Kids & Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying, UMinn Press. @queeringedu.bsky.social
@kylekirkup.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, gender and sexuality law.
@ryanthoreson.bsky.social
Law prof at Cincinnati, teaching int’l law, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 24. ⚖️ 🏳️🌈 🏃
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
Associate Professor, London School of Economics| Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow| Labour & Coop Party Councillor| Deputy Cabinet Member for Social Justice & Culture, London Borough of Newham| He/They| https://linktr.ee/rohitkdasgupta
@annaoleszczuk.bsky.social
researcher | translator | geek | she/they 🏳️🌈🍉 sf | fantasy | comics | gender and queer theory | intersectional feminism currently in: Poland
@haimabraham.bsky.social
Tort Liability in Warfare (@OUPLaw 2024), Assistant Professor @UCLLaws. #Tort law & theory, states liability in #war, #LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️🌈
@dizzyzaba.bsky.social
organizer; writer; technology fellow at ford foundation. labor movement forever
@remembermyhat.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Sexuality and Ageing at the Open University, UK (she/her). Also often tweeting and retweeting about: academic writing | SRHR and sex ed | creative methods | Long Covid/Chronic Fatigue
@charlottefeather.bsky.social
Early-Career Lecturer ~ University of Sunderland Researching ~ Professional Identity / Critical Pedagogy / LGBTQ+ Inclusive Education Creator: http://lgbtqprimaryhub.com she/her 🏳️🌈✨
@simonjlock.bsky.social
writer - researcher - nerd | professor of science, politics and culture at UCL | queer STS | social justice and science | co-dir. research centre for gender and sexual diversity | he/they | views my own | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
@matthewwaites.bsky.social
Reader, Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, international political sociology, genocide https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/
@drcarpineti.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social He/him
@mlewincampos.bsky.social
Independent ethnomusicologist and historian of music: romantic composers; Latinx folk; political/human rights/queerness activism in modern pop. Proud native. Poet. AskHistorians mod & podcast host. They/she 🏳️🌈
@kanerace.bsky.social
Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies University of Sydney Gadigal Land ἀφροδισία φάρμακον
@claerwen.bsky.social
Critical international law. Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, Co-Chair of the ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and Int’ Law Interest Group & Editor, Australian Feminist Law Journal | they 💖💜💙
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Deakin Law. Apparently International Law's cool queer aunt. Once had an ANU student call me a handmaiden of Satan. Disabled. Aces. Editor of Queer and Feminist International Law book series (Routledge). She/Her
@liamelphick.bsky.social
Lecturer @ Monash University | Discrimination law, torts, legal education | 🏳️🌈 | Traumatised former Bad Place user longing for a return of community
@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
@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🚨
@nagingtonuom.bsky.social
Academic at University of Manchester, interested in critical approaches to death, sex, and drugs. Queer as in fuck racism, sexism, fascism. New book "The Moral Lessons of Chemsex" incoming very soon!
@jung-sillah.bsky.social
🧫Sculpting 3D landscapes for neuroblastoma @ChildrensPhila| @DanaFarber alum | PhD @Cambridge_Uni 🌈🥟🧬🧪🥼 https://www.piotrjung-sillah.com
@brimwats.com
they/m | brimwats.com | PhD (ABD) • Homosaurus HistSex.org CritCat.org Q+TMDC • past: #HistSex #HistBook #dh • now: Vanier Scholar@UBC working GLAMS & how they describe marginalized folks & 🔎 information's histories, identity in sociotechnical systems
@emmamerkling.bsky.social
Lecturer in British Art at the University of Manchester | Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art and science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | she/they
@barrieshannon.com
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UniSA researching sexuality education for trans youth and university pathways for working class queer people. Otherwise posting about gaming, sport and vegan food. https://barrieshannon.com
@ecpritchard.bsky.social
Queering justice and human rights • LGBTIAQ storytelling • currently found phd-ing, playing with comms for humanitarian organisations, and probably drinking a cup of tea 🏳️🌈 she/they• #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@magmidd.bsky.social
They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences. Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums margaretmiddleton.com