Arielle Zibrak's Starter Pack
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@zibrak.bsky.social
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication 🍉
@mattielubchansky.com
award-winning transsexual comics idiot, beautiful giantess // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // she/they
@qjurecic.bsky.social
I write about law, democracy, and the internet. Words in @lawfaremedia.org, The Atlantic, Washington Post Book World. It's KWIN-ta. Speaking only for myself on here. signal: qjurecic.32
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
@markharris.bsky.social
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Journalism: New York, NYTimes Style Mag, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
@kellyweill.bsky.social
Writer in books and blogs. Author of "Off The Edge" (book) and MomLeft.com (newsletter). Bunch of other words at NYMag, The Daily Beast, Atlantic, your yearbook. kellybweill at gmail
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@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
@lebassett.bsky.social
Journalist, columnist at The Cut, former EIC of Jezebel, longtime repro rights reporter. From South Louisiana 🐊. Author of Nightcap, an irreverent newsletter about politics: https://www.laura-bassett.com/
@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic. Teller of stories, troller of Nazis. Newsletter: theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/deep-shtetl/ Music: bit.ly/azyashir
@helenlewis.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 and Strong Message Here | Doom scroller, the internet
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@leavittalone.bsky.social
@Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
@thorbenson.bsky.social
Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Daily Beast, NBC News and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and science.
@joshsternberg.com
Executive Editor at Morning Brew Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Mashable, etc etc etc Failed musician. YMMV. Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@elizkolbert.bsky.social
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction."
@benschwartz.bsky.social
Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, The New Republic, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: Dara Kaye/WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
@inkookang.bsky.social
Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
@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
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
@justincchang.bsky.social
Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
@maudnewton.bsky.social
Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her. https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | alleged "left-wing commie-god" | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, 18th-19th c. history, and baseball-especially minor league | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823. he/him.
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
@ngoziu.com
NYT bestselling graphic novelist. DC Comics, The New Yorker. │rep'd by @chelseberly, business q's @grohac ngoziu.com
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
@economeager.bsky.social
Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.
@adrianna.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics. I study strategies to improve health insurance coverage and the politics of health reform. she/her/Michigander https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcintyre
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Associate Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, & articles Mondays, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024. linktr.ee/strangehorizons
@vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦
@vox-magica.bsky.social
historian of christianity | scholar of magic & heresy | critic of empires | neurospicy | unabashedly hopeful, even now | author of magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4382emG) and smoke & mirrors (august 2025) | she/her
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@zibrak.bsky.social
feminisms and popular culture *12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN* Guilty Pleasures (NYU) Writing Against Reform (UMass) more words: LARB, Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, Millions, NYer, etc. Prof @ UWyo - views own www.ariellezibrak.com