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Leigh Hopkins
@leighherenow.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 editor/curator: Khôra | writing: BOMB, Longreads, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus + | teaching: Corporeal Writing | rep: Kent D. Wolf | Philly 🏙️ | she/her/hers/we
ONE YEAR. 🎂✨I’ve learned more about myself in the past year than in all the 55 before. Older parents, daaaaaaang, ain’t this something? I gave up on the idea of becoming a parent when I was 34, so I missed out on so many conversations with friends who were parenting because I was throwing myself
December 5, 2024 at 4:43 PM
We received this anonymous submission the day after the election. Caption: Anonymous, Untitled, IVF placenta print with acrylic paint, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Art in the face of autocracy. We want yours. Links ⬇️
November 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Should I post recipes? Or pics of my food? I think I’ll save that for friends & family texts. But anyway here’s a big pile of baby-friendly sweet potato spinach buckwheat waffles…which I will probably eat for dinner tonight because I’m too tired to cook.
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Life update! The last time I posted on that other place was before becoming a parent a year ago. Raising this tiny mammal is the messiest, best thing I’ve done. Being a queer 🏳️‍🌈 parent in these times feels especially tender, so if you’re feeling that, too, let’s connect.
Other things I post about:
November 20, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I left Twitter a couple of years ago and I was so happy to see you here! My biggest and only highlight (because I don’t time for much else) is that I became a parent. I’m exhausted every second of the day and also having so much fun. I’m still the editor of KHORA and loving it.
November 18, 2024 at 4:51 PM
good night from this pile of sweet potato spinach waffles
November 18, 2024 at 3:20 AM