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Kristen Leigh

@kristenleigh.bsky.social

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Reader. Writer. Dancer. Mom. She/Her. Writing about grief and landscape, Mahler and octopuses, echoes and Texas. Co-founder of slips slips literary journal. Rep by Susan Canavan at WLA Books. https://bio.site/kristenly

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Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hey #Writers #VisualArtists and #Photographers! Excellent news!

slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions!

#OpenCall #CallforSubmissions

an illustration of two balloon dialogues with the words Call and Response in black, all capital hand lettering hover in the center of the frame. the words slips slips #2 "Dialogues" submissions open until 8/31/25 in black hand lettered text are in the bottom left corner of the frame.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1h

We did what most political leaders, media outlets, corporations, and quite a few colleges wouldn't do. We said no to all this bullshit.

Most of all, I'm just so proud of us voters.

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

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Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 14h

What a day!!!!🥳

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14h

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14h

All this and Dick Cheney died this morning!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14h

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Dersh fantasizing about the Budd Dwyer special

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pyra maniac🔥 @pyracantha.bsky.social · 2d

Hi guys!! I am going to be putting together some bundles from this dragon hoard to raise food bank money. A lot of them are rare and no longer available. 💕
I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!

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Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 2d

at least his dad can keep the fridge full for him at his house. I don't know how parents are going to make it through this. That one piece of toast split in two feeling still makes me sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.

Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 2d

meal I could give them at home that day. Times like that ebbed and flowed but I had a lot of people around me wiling to help out.

One of my children did not survive to adulthood. I think about what my son, who is now 20, has been through all the time. I can still barely afford to feed myself but

Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 2d

So often throughout the early years of my children's lives we didn't have enough money for food. I was (am) a single mom and depended on free lunch. I remember one day I had one piece of bread - one piece of bread! - to split between them. I toasted and buttered it. Each got half. That was the only

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 5d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

To be clear Adams didn't even try to win the Dem nomination; and Cuomo tried, LOST, & is running anyway as an independent

Mamdani is the ONLY one of em on the ballot on the Democratic Party line bc HE is who Dem voters chose. So for *these two* to say he's not a real Democrat? xhxjskm I'm screaming

Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 7d

Sirs.

Adams and Cuomo in joint appearance say Mamdani isn't a real Democrat (ny times headline).

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Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote another book by accident.

I thought it was just an essay but I'm slowly editing sections, which I drafted in separate documents, shaping them into one document and, well...here we are. A new book.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

We are moving closer to 2000 letters... 1440 for now...

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9d

Trying to get to 1000 letters by tomorrow... actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!

In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

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Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for doing the homework and sharing it with us. Yet another way you inspire! Really appreciate your openness. 💗

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Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 14d

Also excited to get to know @davidrompf.bsky.social’s writing! A Yooper! One of my beloveds is a Yooper!

Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 14d

Reposting and will read later because if it’s brought to my skyline by @slagglasscity.bsky.social & @barriejeanborich.bsky.social then I trust the artistic integrity of the work.

Slag Glass City @slagglasscity.bsky.social · 14d

“One day in New York, I sought a reprieve from the city’s perpetual trembling restlessness.” -David Rompf “Here Lies A City” in the SLAG GLASS CITY #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @davidrompf.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social x9373.2.vu/HereLiesACity

Kristen Leigh @kristenleigh.bsky.social · 14d

Could it be a scoop on tomorrow's bad news?

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social · 14d

Save the date for a Pack Animal x @thewalrus.ca reading Nov 6 at Standard Time, deets in 🔗

Pack Animal on Instagram: "Pack Animal presents: 🩵⭐️THE WALRUS FALL BOOKS PARTY⭐️🩵 💋📚Join us on THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6TH at STANDARD TIME (165 Geary Ave.) for an evening of readings and performances cel...

Experience an evening of autumn-inspired readings and performances celebrating magazines and literature at The Walrus Fall Books Party. Meet authors, enjoy live performances, and subscribe to The Walr...

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 14d

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

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