Leila Lois
@leilaboos.bsky.social
Dancer, editor, writer
https://linktr.ee/leilalois 🌷
https://open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=on19n&utm_medium=ios 🌹
https://linktr.ee/leilalois 🌷
https://open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=on19n&utm_medium=ios 🌹
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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...
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...
Manon. A ballet I could see so many times…
An excerpt from my review (closing words) below~~
Her character once received by audiences as reprehensible, leaves us with a timely question: how has the policing of and exploitation of women’s bodies led to violence and why does this violence persist?
An excerpt from my review (closing words) below~~
Her character once received by audiences as reprehensible, leaves us with a timely question: how has the policing of and exploitation of women’s bodies led to violence and why does this violence persist?
October 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Manon. A ballet I could see so many times…
An excerpt from my review (closing words) below~~
Her character once received by audiences as reprehensible, leaves us with a timely question: how has the policing of and exploitation of women’s bodies led to violence and why does this violence persist?
An excerpt from my review (closing words) below~~
Her character once received by audiences as reprehensible, leaves us with a timely question: how has the policing of and exploitation of women’s bodies led to violence and why does this violence persist?
Winogrand shot women across New York, LA, and Texas in the 1960s and '70s. The shots of women on the streets, beaches, clubs, and suburbs of America typified street style photography. — Women Are Beautiful
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October 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Winogrand shot women across New York, LA, and Texas in the 1960s and '70s. The shots of women on the streets, beaches, clubs, and suburbs of America typified street style photography. — Women Are Beautiful
publicdelivery.org/garry-winogr...
publicdelivery.org/garry-winogr...
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A new mini essay with poem on a ballerina & the “beauty myth” 🩰🤍
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A new mini essay with poem on a ballerina & the “beauty myth” 🩰🤍
“I wonder if this sort of monolithic collective conscience will just get further and further retranslated into a lowest-common-denominator set of words and principles that lack nuance or complexity.”
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/use...
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/use...
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“I wonder if this sort of monolithic collective conscience will just get further and further retranslated into a lowest-common-denominator set of words and principles that lack nuance or complexity.”
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/use...
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/use...
October 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
But if you knew her, you came to recognize that sudden, rooted attention.
~ Ninette de Valois (on Margot Fonteyn)
Attention is the beginning of devotion
~ Mary Oliver 🤍
~ Ninette de Valois (on Margot Fonteyn)
Attention is the beginning of devotion
~ Mary Oliver 🤍
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
But if you knew her, you came to recognize that sudden, rooted attention.
~ Ninette de Valois (on Margot Fonteyn)
Attention is the beginning of devotion
~ Mary Oliver 🤍
~ Ninette de Valois (on Margot Fonteyn)
Attention is the beginning of devotion
~ Mary Oliver 🤍
For Schopenhauer, all moral actions can be expressed by the Latin phrase Neminem laede, imo omnes quantum potes, juva (“Injure no one; on the contrary, help everyone as much as you can”)
philosophynow.org/issues/52/Sc...
philosophynow.org/issues/52/Sc...
September 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
For Schopenhauer, all moral actions can be expressed by the Latin phrase Neminem laede, imo omnes quantum potes, juva (“Injure no one; on the contrary, help everyone as much as you can”)
philosophynow.org/issues/52/Sc...
philosophynow.org/issues/52/Sc...
New musings, & a poem, on my substack:
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
September 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
New musings, & a poem, on my substack:
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
A stunning night exploring fashion, memory & poetry, with @piecedwork.bsky.social for @emergingwriters.bsky.social 🩷
September 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A stunning night exploring fashion, memory & poetry, with @piecedwork.bsky.social for @emergingwriters.bsky.social 🩷
Max Dupain & Man Ray at Heide Moma. A beautifully curated photography dreamscape 🤍
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Max Dupain & Man Ray at Heide Moma. A beautifully curated photography dreamscape 🤍
September 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Join us on Zoom August 30th from 2pm to 3:30pm EDT for Sleeping in the Courtyard live reading, from Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora.
Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/ArUEqXotVm8k...
Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/ArUEqXotVm8k...
August 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Join us on Zoom August 30th from 2pm to 3:30pm EDT for Sleeping in the Courtyard live reading, from Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora.
Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/ArUEqXotVm8k...
Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/ArUEqXotVm8k...
Happy week-end. Fresh print 🩷🧿
New anthology of contemporary Kurdish writing 🪬💕
Copies here, via @uarkpress.bsky.social
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New anthology of contemporary Kurdish writing 🪬💕
Copies here, via @uarkpress.bsky.social
www.uapress.com/product/slee...
August 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy week-end. Fresh print 🩷🧿
New anthology of contemporary Kurdish writing 🪬💕
Copies here, via @uarkpress.bsky.social
www.uapress.com/product/slee...
New anthology of contemporary Kurdish writing 🪬💕
Copies here, via @uarkpress.bsky.social
www.uapress.com/product/slee...
So far, Balladz by Sharon Olds, From From by Monica Youn & Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong 🤍
August 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
So far, Balladz by Sharon Olds, From From by Monica Youn & Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong 🤍
So lovely to be in this company, for this wonderful research on Kurdish dance 🤍
nlka.net/eng/kurdish-...
nlka.net/eng/kurdish-...
July 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
So lovely to be in this company, for this wonderful research on Kurdish dance 🤍
nlka.net/eng/kurdish-...
nlka.net/eng/kurdish-...
Death is a hat we look in for the head that wore it, a picture we take in the future of the past.
~ Bob Hicok, The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV) 🤍
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
~ Bob Hicok, The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV) 🤍
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Death is a hat we look in for the head that wore it, a picture we take in the future of the past.
~ Bob Hicok, The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV) 🤍
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
~ Bob Hicok, The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV) 🤍
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
New essay on paying attention to beauty, and Margot's smile
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open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
July 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New essay on paying attention to beauty, and Margot's smile
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
Everyone talks about the beauty of nature, but people are far more beautiful. Nature is only a backdrop, like scenery at a theatre, and all the man-made objects only props. People are the beauty & the light & the point & the purpose.
~ @zadiesmith.bsky.social
I needed Zadie & sunshine today 🌞
~ @zadiesmith.bsky.social
I needed Zadie & sunshine today 🌞
July 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everyone talks about the beauty of nature, but people are far more beautiful. Nature is only a backdrop, like scenery at a theatre, and all the man-made objects only props. People are the beauty & the light & the point & the purpose.
~ @zadiesmith.bsky.social
I needed Zadie & sunshine today 🌞
~ @zadiesmith.bsky.social
I needed Zadie & sunshine today 🌞
Walk outside in Florida, and a snake will be watching you
~Lauren Groff, Florida
~Lauren Groff, Florida
July 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Walk outside in Florida, and a snake will be watching you
~Lauren Groff, Florida
~Lauren Groff, Florida
June 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Time is precious ~~ ✨
June 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Time is precious ~~ ✨