Leilani Clark
@leilaniclark.bsky.social
Writer. Chicanx. Californian. Working on a narrative nonfiction book about freeways, displacement, erasure, & survival in East Los Angeles. Published at The Guardian, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED. Comms manager at a Sonoma County environmental nonprofit.
I got to spend the day leading observers & doing comms work on a multi-acre LandPaths/Fire Forward prescribed burn at the Grove of Old Trees in Occidental. Still processing the day but will be writing about this later.
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I got to spend the day leading observers & doing comms work on a multi-acre LandPaths/Fire Forward prescribed burn at the Grove of Old Trees in Occidental. Still processing the day but will be writing about this later.
Happy paperback pub day to @manjula.bsky.social! If you haven’t read The Last Fire Season yet, go get yourself a copy! It’s excellent. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711111...
May 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Happy paperback pub day to @manjula.bsky.social! If you haven’t read The Last Fire Season yet, go get yourself a copy! It’s excellent. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711111...
Working on the weekend is pretty great when this is the vibe. #sonomacounty #azolla
May 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Working on the weekend is pretty great when this is the vibe. #sonomacounty #azolla
Burn piles, French broom pulling, and a hike to see the sublime proliferation of wildflowers at Riddell Preserve in Healdsburg. Aka my day at work this weekend.
April 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Burn piles, French broom pulling, and a hike to see the sublime proliferation of wildflowers at Riddell Preserve in Healdsburg. Aka my day at work this weekend.
My years of planting bulbs, native species, and fruit trees are paying the best kind of dividends.
March 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My years of planting bulbs, native species, and fruit trees are paying the best kind of dividends.
Finally made it to Monterey after all these years of living in the Bay Area. The aquarium was cool. Discovering that my kid loves to trek about weed-strewn ruins of industry as much as I do was even cooler.
March 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finally made it to Monterey after all these years of living in the Bay Area. The aquarium was cool. Discovering that my kid loves to trek about weed-strewn ruins of industry as much as I do was even cooler.
Dreaming of the next time I get to practice good fire in the field. Later this month at the Grove of Old Trees! It’s open to the public - join me! landpaths.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/l...
March 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dreaming of the next time I get to practice good fire in the field. Later this month at the Grove of Old Trees! It’s open to the public - join me! landpaths.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/l...
I participated in my first patch burn today at a @landpaths.bsky.social preserve in West Sonoma County. It felt empowering and meaningful to help bring good fire back to the land. Kind of day where I truly love my job.
February 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I participated in my first patch burn today at a @landpaths.bsky.social preserve in West Sonoma County. It felt empowering and meaningful to help bring good fire back to the land. Kind of day where I truly love my job.
Bravo to Positive Images for their good and necessary work on the Sonoma County Queer Needs Assessment. I attended the launch event yesterday and left feeling inspired and ready to push for change based on the report’s recommendations.
February 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Bravo to Positive Images for their good and necessary work on the Sonoma County Queer Needs Assessment. I attended the launch event yesterday and left feeling inspired and ready to push for change based on the report’s recommendations.
Overflow crowd because they are holding this crucial school board meeting at a tiny space and most of us can’t get in.
February 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Overflow crowd because they are holding this crucial school board meeting at a tiny space and most of us can’t get in.
I made a pit stop in Point Reyes station yesterday. Caught most of the lovely convo between @laurenmarkham.bsky.social & @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and picked up a copy of Lauren’s new book-length, speculative essay out now at @transitbooks.bsky.social.
February 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I made a pit stop in Point Reyes station yesterday. Caught most of the lovely convo between @laurenmarkham.bsky.social & @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and picked up a copy of Lauren’s new book-length, speculative essay out now at @transitbooks.bsky.social.
Santa Rosa showing up in defense of our immigrant communities!
February 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Santa Rosa showing up in defense of our immigrant communities!
Ordered a few books from @versobooks.bsky.social and this is what arrived in the mail yesterday. I generally stan USPS but WTF? 🤬🤷🏻♀️😵
January 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ordered a few books from @versobooks.bsky.social and this is what arrived in the mail yesterday. I generally stan USPS but WTF? 🤬🤷🏻♀️😵
Reading Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by British historian of architecture Reyner Banham and I have so many thoughts (and underlines and scrawled notes in the margins).
January 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reading Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by British historian of architecture Reyner Banham and I have so many thoughts (and underlines and scrawled notes in the margins).
It’s been a rough week. And it’s only Wednesday. Let this clip of my kid (she’s the little one on the right) and her school band performing this evening, in front of the brutalist walls of Santa Rosa’s City Hall, cheer you up. ¡Unidos en la música! And a reminder that our diversity is our power.
January 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s been a rough week. And it’s only Wednesday. Let this clip of my kid (she’s the little one on the right) and her school band performing this evening, in front of the brutalist walls of Santa Rosa’s City Hall, cheer you up. ¡Unidos en la música! And a reminder that our diversity is our power.
I have a 55,000-word 2nd draft of my book sitting in Scrivener. And now I sit frozen in the muck of trying to work out the structure and pattern of the story. May early 2025 bring some kind of breakthrough!
January 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I have a 55,000-word 2nd draft of my book sitting in Scrivener. And now I sit frozen in the muck of trying to work out the structure and pattern of the story. May early 2025 bring some kind of breakthrough!
Helvella vespertina or Western Elfin Saddle.
January 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Helvella vespertina or Western Elfin Saddle.
Mushroom content incoming after a beautiful day up at Riddell Preserve introducing people to 400 acres of wildland on Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians homeland past, present and future.
January 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Mushroom content incoming after a beautiful day up at Riddell Preserve introducing people to 400 acres of wildland on Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians homeland past, present and future.
I pulled this Mike Davis classic from my bookshelf last week and started re-reading it, as part of the research for my book. It was always relevant. And today, even more so, in the most stark and eerie way.
January 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I pulled this Mike Davis classic from my bookshelf last week and started re-reading it, as part of the research for my book. It was always relevant. And today, even more so, in the most stark and eerie way.
In 2025, here’s to more sunny days at the beach with friends, gossiping, laughing, and eating snacks.
January 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
In 2025, here’s to more sunny days at the beach with friends, gossiping, laughing, and eating snacks.
