2026 Visitor Experience Conference
October 11-14, Philadelphia
vexgroup.org
I'm a queer, godless, working class, leftist, cat collecting, antifascist in the NC Sandhills. Prone to screaming into the void and self replies. This looks like a good hill to die on. No Pasarán!
Integrating social & natural sciences & modeling to study climate change & society | Behavioral approaches to climate policy | Nashville TN | They/them 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ genderqueer | Jew | Friends call me Maggie | My words aren't my employer's | jonathangilligan.org
Researching lived experience and participation in museums and archaeology. Also enjoys volleyball and cycling. York & Manchester. He/him
Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. Ph.D. Candidate @Harvard by day/night, forager at heart. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He/They.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Community Archivist | Working with @queerinbrighton.bsky.social | He/him
Postdoc researcher in Artful Sensing Practices @shu-sioe.bsky.social, Earlyarts founder, author of Creativity and the Arts in Early Childhood http://bit.ly/2V1I4cj
Hosting Slate’s daily news podcast What Next. Getting closer to God in a tight situation. Alum: WNYC Always: therealness.org
Doing comms for community action. Recovering museum professional. Sometime historian of vaccination. Life in Gloucestershire. Attempting to navigate a hopeful path amidst the chaos. Personal account, own views. He/him.
owengower.co.uk
Freelance consultant and producer working in the creative, cultural and digital industries. Long career in museums leading on all things digital. Based in Birmingham UK, works everywhere. Loves collaborating on creative stuff!
Museum Education, Culture, Arts, Heritage. Cats, Wine, Mum to Lyra.
Artist, drawing tutor, digital producer. Not entirely sure who she is any more.
Yorkshire-based birder, ecologist, guide, writer, speaker, educator, comms for conservation orgs. #ZeissBirding. He/Him. Birding - Northernrustic.blogspot.com / Music - morningbride.bandcamp.com
Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
Writer, baby. Words at The Museum of English Rural Life
https://joevaughan.net
Just a man, standing in front of a social media portal...
I am a public historian and museum professional based in the Atlanta, GA, area. My opinions are my own.
The MCG is for technologists, curators, educators, marketers and more in and around museums #musetech
Twitter migrant. Dublin City Councillor for Clontarf. Also on mastodon, but rarely: https://mastodon.ie/@karlstanley
Art historian. Forthcoming: a critical edition of Prince George of Denmark's travel diary detailing his time in Restoration England, 1669. Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900, Lund Humphries, 2023. Essays in OAJ and JHNA.
@mariiieclaiiire on twt | digital editor irl | she/her
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Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Assistant Professor at LSE Gender | Licensed Lay Minister in the Diocese of London | cats, books, baking | views own | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakansandalwilson/
Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
Friend of Ned
REMEMBER TO FEED THE LOAS
Mastodon: @rheinze@hcommons.social
HCommons: @rheinze
He / him · #Manhattan #NYC · Staff software engineer · Design+eng, #HCI, #DesignSystems, listening, empathy, #house #music, video #games, #photography, #cats, Black feminism, trans rights, Palestinian liberation, antiwhiteness, broken systems, #union labor
Lecturer in contemporary literature at Surrey University and host of the Queer Lit podcast. (they/she)
Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Former journalist running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
Where Queer Hope & Joy Flourish 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The UK's leading LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing charity
Support queer hope and joy 💜
www.lgbt.foundation/donate
Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism"
She/Her 🍉
Forever an enigma
Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Ephemeral Record of queer and trans histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
Transmasc writer, historian, educator. Civil War nerd. Tenured. Work in progress.
Interactive Exhibit Design;📍Philadelphia ; 🎓CMU Drama School and NYU ITP Alum.
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscummings/
Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Filmmaker! Also: a guy from Kansas who loves RPGs, physical media, and his mischievous pugs.
🎬 CHASING CHASING AMY, PANCAKE SKANK
🎭 Founder, Transgender Film Center
🏆 TED Talker, Forbes 30 Under 30
🏳️⚧️ he/him
savrodgers.com // IG: @savrodgersfilm
Museums without Borders #icomuk
https://linktr.ee/ICOMUK
2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. LGBTQ guests share the queer books that saved their lives. Posts by Exe. Producer Jim Pounds. Unless signed by host @jpderboghossian. Listen: podfollow.com/thisqueerbook
Writer, Folklorist, Insufferable Historical Gossip.
"ridiculously zesty" says the Chicago Tribune
linktr.ee/codexohm ✥ they ✥ Colorado ⚧♿
Elf Princess: feminist, journalist, campaigner on political and sexual liberty: also IT, law and policing. Content may contain spoof!
She/her. Also fae/faer
🖼️ PR at the Memorial Art Gallery [MAG], a fine art museum with more than 5,000 years of art history located in downtown Rochester, NY📍
Educator, cyclist, printmaker, podcaster, knitter, kayaker, one time museum worker. More to come?
Upcoming podcast "Can I Talk To You?" dropping in April.
https://benfast.ca
they/them audio post-production freelancer, ttrpg nerd, adhd enjoyer
RABBIT with Sarah Joy Ford: https://m.soundcloud.com/leverett-jaques/rabbit-with-sarah-joy-ford
Poacher with Lenni Sanders: https://low-cinnabar.bandcamp.com
Queering history in every imaginable way!
linktr.ee/outhistory
Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor.
Illustrator & melt of Dublin, now in Brussels.
Please assume I am not talking about the US.
selkiesstudio.com
Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Social & Climate Justice • Internet & Cultural Studies • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
Writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, queerfeminism(s), & film photography
they/them
University of Kassel (MA) / INTERACT, FU Berlin / queeranalogdarkroom (QAD)
fossil botherer, museum nerd, equality fanatic 🏳️🌈
Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge
Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill
https://linktr.ee/themuseumofliz
Wife. Author. Tarot enthusiast. Professor of Africana Studies. Posts represent the views of my cats. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. 日本語を勉強します. I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams and/or worst nightmare. I have a lot of ancestors. 🏳️🌈
‘Are you impervious to everything?!’ - man who had just kicked me in the leg.
‘The Whore of Babylon’ - man who was about to shatter his cane against my arm.
‘Nice boobies’; ‘Useless cunt’ - more random men.
My employer shares none of my views.
Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
New here! Author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance; historian, photographer & professor at Rutgers University.
some lady.
she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
Therapist: GSRD / LGBTQIA+ • Queer Menopause • Author • Sexologist • They/them • ND • Covid is still here.
Professor of Political Science at BU, author of _Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love_ (Stanford UP, January 2025)
She/her. Feminism, anti-colonialism, critical international development. Liberation theology. Theology at Durham. Mother to a grumpy cat. Editorial hats: Culture and Religion (T and F), Conversations IFJP
Psychologist, PhD | Intersectionality | Public health | Climate justice | Extinction Rebellion | www.BeyondBoundary.nl | Coloring book for health researchers 'Coloring connections' https://zenodo.org/records/14258538 | GroenLinks-PvdA fractie in Helmond
LGBTIQ+ archives | curating collections | queering museums | co-founder of queersearch.org | currently: @queerdemocracies.bsky.social
Novelist 🇵🇸
linktr.ee/naoisedolan
Critical community archives, feminism & technology, queer archives, digital preservation. Doggie Mam, Vegan for the animals 🌱
Sociology (#work, #class, #time & #tech). Policy geek at the Digital Repository of Ireland (#archive #data #privacy #gdpr ). @ Maynooth University. She, her. Also cats, jokes & typos
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Doctoral Researcher at University of Bristol working on female and gender nonconforming monstrous bodies in early modern literature.
Based in West Yorkshire.
museum digital, speculative fiction, occasional writing
LA-based / Hecho en South Queens / 🇭🇹
opinions very VERY much my own //
varied interests
Sociology PhD student at Nottingham Uni. Chemsex stories project https://chemsexstories.info
Independent scholar of the market for Asian antiquities, especially Khmer and Thai. PhD Buddhist art and literature of Thailand. Author of The Buddha in Lanna (U of Hawai'i Press, 2017)
museumofchildhood.ie Est 2018. Groundbreaking first for Ireland. Award winning Historic to contemporary, Islandwide and Diaspora, museum of children and childhood. Championing every child. Charity: 20205452 #SeenAndHeard #CherishingAllTheChildren
We bring LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it, including the Making Gay History podcast (makinggayhistory.org). Since 2016.
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies is based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, Leeds University.
https://gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk/
Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBT+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere.
https://www.proud-geek.co.uk/
🐉 Multi-award-shortlisted, Eisner- & Ignatz-nominated indie comics publisher
📍 Edinburgh, run by @evegwood.com
📚 quindriepress.com
✉️ quindriepress@gmail.com
📢 Closing December 2026
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
Siop Llyfrau LHDTC+ arlein ac yn The Queer Emporium |
LGBTQIA+ bookshop based online and The Queer Emporium
UK based (Bristol) festival event celebrating LGBTQIA+ comic artists, writers and creators.
Links: http://linktr.ee/pridecaf
Delicious queer & trans erotic comics, for people tired of crumbs. Core editor/producer Tab Kimpton & helped by lots of other good apples🍏
https://linktr.ee/tabkimpton
Your favourite book publisher, obvs 🏴
Closing in summer 2026.
We're @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
Improve your life with 404 Ink books: https://www.404ink.com/shop
Publishing radical queer Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror from London, UK. Founded by @trip.bsky.social, @chrismccartney.bsky.social and @robwillb.bsky.social.
🛸I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (2024)
🧱Wrath Month (2025)
https://linktr.ee/bonabooksltd
We are an LGBTQIA+ Bookstore based in Plymouth, UK. We currently only ship within the UK.
our website: toqs.co.uk
our linktree: linktr.ee/toqs
Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
thoughtbubblefestival.com
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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We are open Tues - Sun 11 am - 6.30 pm | Events 7 pm-late
118 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom E2 6DG
commonpress.co.uk
An independent press publishing queer and trans authors
Stories that stay with you. Gothic, horror and dark fiction books.
Indie imprint specializing in Queer YA fiction🌈📚, with a taste for all things spook-tacular 👻
Next Book: Our Immortal Bind by Christopher Hartland (31st March)
