Leila Lois
@leilaboos.bsky.social
Dancer, editor, writer
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https://open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=on19n&utm_medium=ios 🌹
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https://open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=on19n&utm_medium=ios 🌹
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Leila Lois
@leilaboos.bsky.social
· May 1
A new dance/writing project, consulting the archives of @artscentremelb.bsky.social for inspiration on the world’s most inspiring ballet partnership 🤍
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November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My beautiful friend Joëlle has published these lovely ballet journals for young dancers: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1HKD7C... 🩰💕
My Ballet Diary
Visit Amazon's My Ballet Diary Page and shop for all My Ballet Diary books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of My Ballet Diary
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November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
My beautiful friend Joëlle has published these lovely ballet journals for young dancers: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1HKD7C... 🩰💕
“In Lanthimos’s movies, the sacrificial victim is a central figure, and it is very often the protagonist himself or herself … These are rites that demand no belief in anything, but, rather, mere vicarious participation.”
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
A World On Film Yorgos Lanthimos - Salmagundi Magazine
   I admit it: I screamed, startling everyone else in the theater, when Emma Stone’s cult-fanatic character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, released this past summer, sliced into...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“In Lanthimos’s movies, the sacrificial victim is a central figure, and it is very often the protagonist himself or herself … These are rites that demand no belief in anything, but, rather, mere vicarious participation.”
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
Swans, scrap journals, ballet class & staying whimsical www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 🦢
“Ambrose,” by Allegra Goodman
Lily is not upset. She just wants to live in a castle or a secret cottage in the woods. She is writing a novel about a girl named Ambrose who becomes a swan at night.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Swans, scrap journals, ballet class & staying whimsical www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 🦢
A new short story, in time for Gingerbread Season 🍭💕 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A new short story, in time for Gingerbread Season 🍭💕 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
Reposted by Leila Lois
This month’s issue includes a previously unpublished poem by Dorothy Porter alongside poems by Mindy Gill and Peter Goldsworthy.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This month’s issue includes a previously unpublished poem by Dorothy Porter alongside poems by Mindy Gill and Peter Goldsworthy.
Reposted by Leila Lois
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
I turn to novels, and death haunts my reading, my familiar places, my reading about familiar places.”
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
Books in a Time of Grief | Sydney Review of Books
In mourning, Kylie Mirmohamadi finds herself turning, and returning, to novels. Perhaps there is something about the novel’s form that renders it an apt vehicle for articulating and making sense of mo...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I turn to novels, and death haunts my reading, my familiar places, my reading about familiar places.”
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
A wonderful essay on “fiction” 🧿 substack.com/@elifshafak/...
ALL THE COLOURS WE CANNOT SEE
This might be a strange thing for a fiction writer to say, but I do not like the word ‘fiction’ .
substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A wonderful essay on “fiction” 🧿 substack.com/@elifshafak/...
A new essay for Clare Carlin’s Textile Message 🪡✨ on remembering and becoming, through the clothing I’ve loved
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emergingwritersfestival.org.au/leila-lois-f...
Leila Lois for Textile Message - Emerging Writers' Festival
For ‘EWF X Textile Message‘ as part of the 2025 Emerging Writers’ Festival. Beauty is not merely decorative. -Ocean Vuong Early memories of textile as solace and comfort Since as early as I can rem...
emergingwritersfestival.org.au
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A new essay for Clare Carlin’s Textile Message 🪡✨ on remembering and becoming, through the clothing I’ve loved
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/leila-lois-f...
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/leila-lois-f...
Everyone has their own inner battles~ Ghayath Almadhoun
open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
Ghayath Almadhoun
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November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Everyone has their own inner battles~ Ghayath Almadhoun
open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
Reposted by Leila Lois
Happy All Souls’ Day!✨
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Happy All Souls’ Day!✨
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
A new essay & a poem on my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
A new essay & a poem on my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
I’m interested in offering a picture of not only Kurdish suffering and grief but also the joy, beauty, delight, and bounty within Kurdish experience.
~Holly Mason Badra
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...
So honoured to have my poems included in this collection
~Holly Mason Badra
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...
So honoured to have my poems included in this collection
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I’m interested in offering a picture of not only Kurdish suffering and grief but also the joy, beauty, delight, and bounty within Kurdish experience.
~Holly Mason Badra
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...
So honoured to have my poems included in this collection
~Holly Mason Badra
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...
So honoured to have my poems included in this collection
“One young woman described IPV as “Like being controlled, being told what to do, being told what not to do, like being forced to do stuff… It’s not even just physical, it's mental, emotional, like it’s a lot of stuff involved.””
Wonderful PhD & zine by a friend
www.monash.edu/medicine/new...
Wonderful PhD & zine by a friend
www.monash.edu/medicine/new...
New study into young women’s experiences of intimate partner violence
www.monash.edu
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“One young woman described IPV as “Like being controlled, being told what to do, being told what not to do, like being forced to do stuff… It’s not even just physical, it's mental, emotional, like it’s a lot of stuff involved.””
Wonderful PhD & zine by a friend
www.monash.edu/medicine/new...
Wonderful PhD & zine by a friend
www.monash.edu/medicine/new...
“In her younger years, Annie Clark, the forty-three-year-old singer-songwriter who performs as St. Vincent, was twice mistaken for a prostitute at the Carlyle hotel.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
St. Vincent Gets the Carlyle Treatment
The musician, born Annie Clark, is following in the footsteps of Eartha Kitt and Bobby Short at Café Carlyle. But which of her songs will make the set list?
www.newyorker.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“In her younger years, Annie Clark, the forty-three-year-old singer-songwriter who performs as St. Vincent, was twice mistaken for a prostitute at the Carlyle hotel.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Divinity ✨ youtu.be/KX1YtvFZOj0?...
Pau Casals: Bach Cello Solo Nr.1, BWV 1007 (8.1954)
YouTube video by win081
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October 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Divinity ✨ youtu.be/KX1YtvFZOj0?...
“There is a “hype cycle” that maps the euphoria and hysteria generated by new technology and then the consequent plunge into the “trough of disillusionment” when it fails to deliver on its promises.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer
Social media didn’t live up to its promises. So why do we think artificial intelligence will be any better?
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“There is a “hype cycle” that maps the euphoria and hysteria generated by new technology and then the consequent plunge into the “trough of disillusionment” when it fails to deliver on its promises.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Rogue AI therapy bots & eerily accurate dark humour www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte
“Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”
www.newyorker.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Rogue AI therapy bots & eerily accurate dark humour www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Legendary ✨
Misty Copeland took her final bow as an American Ballet Theatre principal dancer on Wednesday, a role she's had for the past 10 years.
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Legendary ✨
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Misty Copeland for Harper’s Bazaar
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Misty Copeland for Harper’s Bazaar
“I think delusion is an appropriate word for acting in general…Can you give yourself over to another environment and situation? I think in order to do that, there has to be a certain amount of delusion or romanticism.”
Dreamy editorial 💭
www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jeremy-...
Dreamy editorial 💭
www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jeremy-...
Jeremy Allen White’s Delusions of Grandeur
After "The Bear" made him a household name, the 34-year-old actor turns up the heat as Bruce Springsteen in Scott Cooper’s "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere." To talk it through, he called Austin ...
www.interviewmagazine.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“I think delusion is an appropriate word for acting in general…Can you give yourself over to another environment and situation? I think in order to do that, there has to be a certain amount of delusion or romanticism.”
Dreamy editorial 💭
www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jeremy-...
Dreamy editorial 💭
www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jeremy-...
Oh Neil… & Joni 💘 open.spotify.com/track/34kula...
Helpless (with Joni Mitchell)
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October 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Oh Neil… & Joni 💘 open.spotify.com/track/34kula...