Kristen Leigh
@kristenleigh.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Dancer. Mom. She/Her.
Writing about grief and landscape, Mahler and octopuses, echoes and Texas.
Co-founder of slips slips literary journal.
Rep by Susan Canavan at WLA Books.
https://bio.site/kristenly
Writing about grief and landscape, Mahler and octopuses, echoes and Texas.
Co-founder of slips slips literary journal.
Rep by Susan Canavan at WLA Books.
https://bio.site/kristenly
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Kristen Leigh
@kristenleigh.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Hey #Writers #VisualArtists and #Photographers! Excellent news!
slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions!
#OpenCall #CallforSubmissions
slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions!
#OpenCall #CallforSubmissions
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dionne brand on catastrophe, acknowledgement, & surviving it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
dionne brand on catastrophe, acknowledgement, & surviving it.
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BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. Baaaats baaaats baaaaaaats baaaats
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. Baaaats baaaats baaaaaaats baaaats
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New episode of Classical Breakdown is out today, this time on the life and music of living composer Adolphus Hailstork!
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Adolphus Hailstork, an American composer writing for our time
Podcast Episode · Classical Breakdown · 11/11/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New episode of Classical Breakdown is out today, this time on the life and music of living composer Adolphus Hailstork!
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball by Emily Dickinson - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: The spider holds a Silver Ball / In unperceived Hands— / And dancing softly to Himse
allpoetry.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Spider holds a Silver Ball
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
People who have no self-respect really are the most dangerous kinds of people.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
People who have no self-respect really are the most dangerous kinds of people.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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If you are in Illinois and need food, you can use this link to find free groceries or hot meals. Pass it on!
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
Find Food | We Got You Illinois
wegotyouillinois.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you are in Illinois and need food, you can use this link to find free groceries or hot meals. Pass it on!
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
Just called my senators and left the most desperate, urgent voicemails. This is it. If you haven't called yet the DC lines all have voicemail boxes waiting for your message. Call now, if you can!
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just called my senators and left the most desperate, urgent voicemails. This is it. If you haven't called yet the DC lines all have voicemail boxes waiting for your message. Call now, if you can!
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one of the artists who we've been working with for the first issue of Queer & Trans Collagists is looking for help with expenses related to top surgery! please help him out if you can ❤️
Donate to Help Charles Get Top Surgery!, organized by Charles Oliver
I'm Charles—a queer transmasc artist, writer, and advocate. My work focuses on the queer … Charles Oliver needs your support for Help Charles Get Top Surgery!
www.gofundme.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
one of the artists who we've been working with for the first issue of Queer & Trans Collagists is looking for help with expenses related to top surgery! please help him out if you can ❤️
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
All of this!
Run... the democratic politics that address the material concerns of YOUR 🫵 community
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
All of this!
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Love reading something personal from Jesmyn Ward, one of the absolute best fiction writers of all time
Cocoon of Sound - Orion Magazine
Hip-hop was my tether to home
orionmagazine.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Love reading something personal from Jesmyn Ward, one of the absolute best fiction writers of all time
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Gonna start printing all the Butlerian Jihad Now sweatshirts next week. Get em while they warm.
Etsy.com/shop/bumlung
Etsy.com/shop/bumlung
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Gonna start printing all the Butlerian Jihad Now sweatshirts next week. Get em while they warm.
Etsy.com/shop/bumlung
Etsy.com/shop/bumlung
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Psychropotes longicauda, the sea pig’s flamboyant cousin, trails a red sail over the seafloor. A tiny flag of existence waving in the dark.
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Psychropotes longicauda, the sea pig’s flamboyant cousin, trails a red sail over the seafloor. A tiny flag of existence waving in the dark.
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We did what most political leaders, media outlets, corporations, and quite a few colleges wouldn't do. We said no to all this bullshit.
Most of all, I'm just so proud of us voters.
Most of all, I'm just so proud of us voters.
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We did what most political leaders, media outlets, corporations, and quite a few colleges wouldn't do. We said no to all this bullshit.
Most of all, I'm just so proud of us voters.
Most of all, I'm just so proud of us voters.
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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
All this and Dick Cheney died this morning!
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
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If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
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Hi guys!! I am going to be putting together some bundles from this dragon hoard to raise food bank money. A lot of them are rare and no longer available. 💕
I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!
I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hi guys!! I am going to be putting together some bundles from this dragon hoard to raise food bank money. A lot of them are rare and no longer available. 💕
I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!
I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!
So often throughout the early years of my children's lives we didn't have enough money for food. I was (am) a single mom and depended on free lunch. I remember one day I had one piece of bread - one piece of bread! - to split between them. I toasted and buttered it. Each got half. That was the only
November 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So often throughout the early years of my children's lives we didn't have enough money for food. I was (am) a single mom and depended on free lunch. I remember one day I had one piece of bread - one piece of bread! - to split between them. I toasted and buttered it. Each got half. That was the only
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Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.