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Leslie, the Collab Auntie
@lesliemuse.bsky.social
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Video + Installation Artist | Bi/Queer | he/they | Public Transit Geek | Subversive | Assistant Professor, Cal State San Marcos | Tongva Land | lesliefoster.art
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Yessss 😍
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Oooh, if you’re adding to the book list, might I recommend:
The book cover for the book We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson. The cover is illustrated with a Black femme standing in grass wearing a white dress. She has locks piled on top of her head and carries a rifle pointed down.
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
lesliemuse.bsky.social
Not nearly as exciting, but my look last night
Leslie sits at table with a drink halfway to their lips, slightly smiling. They are wearing a black top with a cowl that is dive around their neck and a black chest harness.
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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In happier news, if you’d like to work with me, my department is hiring a tenure track assistant associate professor!

If you’re an artist whose work bridges mutual disciplines, this could be an amazing fit for you!

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Sun setting over the hilly campus of Cal State San Marcos in Southern California.
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I’ve been working on “Black Cathedral (or the Nyxontology of other Worlds)” since 2022 and after an exhausting install, I’m so excited to share them with the world this weekend. The show opens at Human Resources in LA this Thursday and runs through Sunday. www.h-r.la/event/howl/
A tall gallery space with three vertical 12 foot tall projection screens hanging from floor to ceiling. The middle screen doesn’t hang as far down and has a gentle curve to the bottom. Black and white stop motion films of Black queer figures are projected onto the screens, which are brown in color and are grown from hemp and algae. The work is the first completely triptych of the art piece Black Cathedral.
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I’m in a relatively safe zone, thankfully, but have friends who have had to evacuate and might have lost homes. The view from my window of the smoke from the Eton fire (northeast of me) is pretty intense.
A view outside of a window of a row of houses punctuated with palm trees. The sky above is dark gray accented with a growing plume of light orange smoke, which casts everything in an eerie light.
January 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Sexy, queer, and angry…sounds about right
Spotify wrapped top songs: 1) Champagne Shit by Janelle Monáe 2) Float by Janelle Monáe, Seun Kuti, Egypt 80 3) The Kids by B.o.B., Janelle Monáe 4) Blood in the Water by J.Pollock, GoldFord 5) Intifada on the Dance Floor by Bashar Murad Spotify wrapped top artists: 1) Janelle Monáe 2) Doechii 3) SYML 4) The Magnetic Fields 5) Mother Mother
December 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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What’s a pic of you that could be an album cover:

Ok, so not the most recent picture by a long stretch but it works. I’m thinking a gently moody experimental singer-songwriter album with a splash of soul and metal (and a touch of gamelan).
Baldk and white and slightly angled picture of a Black person with a goatee and mustache stands on a die walk, with cars and electric poles fading in the background behind them. They have a few visible piercings and look into the distance contemplatively. They wear a bowler hat, narrow, rectangular-framed glasses, a black vest and shirt with a grey-striped tie with a Merovingian knot, jeans, and a pea coat. Their hands are tucked into the coat.
November 17, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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(And at least one in the fall)
Black backpacker with pack, and trekking poles faces away from camera, walking down a Yosemite trail lined with brown grass and red ground cover. A stand of trees to the left and a large lake to the right. A mountain rises at the edge of the image, framing the lake.
November 15, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Since there’s been quite the influx of new folks, some re-introductions. I’m…

- an artist using video art, sculpture, & installation to imagine Black queer worlds that are illegible to white supremacy

- an educator

- queer, gender fluid, & polyam,

- a third culture kid

- in search of wonder
Bald Black person with glasses in a an asymmetrical black sweater over a blue button-up and bow tie and wearing jeans (yellow 3d glasses tucked visibly into left pocket) holding a mic and speaking at an art event (in front of a metal truss, cart, and large black storage container, which is off to the right)
November 11, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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I’ve been on here for a minute but I’ve been slacking…. #addtoblacksky
Black person with trimmed salt and pepper goatee, several ear piercings, and glasses wearing a black jacket with brass buttons, a scarf, and a black t-shirt that reads “men have made a lot of bad art.” Person stands in a hallway with beams of light shining from the outside between square columns.
November 9, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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quote-skeet with masked selfies!
Black person with glasses, a dark jacket with brass buttons and a fuzzy interior lining, and a black mask sits in a train, their hand resting on their chest, a thin gold ring on their forefinger.
August 21, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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An angry child stands in a hallway under the caption “he thought desire came without inherent suffering! he MAD!!!” A manatee floats against the background of a nebula, facing a small child and says, “set it all on fire, child.” A sticker on a glass coffee table reads “It’s ineffable but I would like to eff it.” A queer person in a white shirt and jeans sits at a small green table with two cups of water and two cups of coffee accompanied by a croissant. The caption reads “everything I do I do with playful and bisexual intent.”
August 20, 2023 at 1:35 PM
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Sending hugs for the rollercoaster. And today has been lovely! Queer, poly pool party
August 20, 2023 at 3:15 AM