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 🌹
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Leila Lois
@leilaboos.bsky.social
· May 1
A new dance/writing project, consulting the archives of @artscentremelb.bsky.social for inspiration on the world’s most inspiring ballet partnership 🤍
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Worrying for Kurdistan, and the whole region…
2/ Iranian-backed Iraqi militias may have led a drone strike on the Emirati-operated Khor Mor Gas Field in Chamchamal District, Sulaymaniyah Province, Iraq, on Nov. 26 to try to deter Iraqi Kurdish political parties from working against Iranian-backed Iraqi parties in the gov't formation process.
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Worrying for Kurdistan, and the whole region…
“This morning, I was a depressed, frumpy loser. But then, in a moment, everything changed. You see, I just purchased a forty-five-dollar bouquet of dried willow branches from a pixie-haired woman at the farmers’ market. Now… my life sings with limitless potential.”
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
This Bouquet of Branches Will Change Everything
Before, I was unremarkable. Now my very being begs a litany of questions, such as, “Wait, why does she have all those sticks?”
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“This morning, I was a depressed, frumpy loser. But then, in a moment, everything changed. You see, I just purchased a forty-five-dollar bouquet of dried willow branches from a pixie-haired woman at the farmers’ market. Now… my life sings with limitless potential.”
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase,
barbarize or refine us. … According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply
them, or they totally destroy them.
~ Edmund Burke, c. 19
Quite amusing op-ed 🦃
barbarize or refine us. … According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply
them, or they totally destroy them.
~ Edmund Burke, c. 19
Quite amusing op-ed 🦃
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Many affluent Americans no longer believe in civic institutions or community groups. But they believe in the free mediocre sushi and abundant charging stations of the airport lounge,” Frank Bruni tells Bret Stephens in their weekly conversation.
“Many affluent Americans no longer believe in civic institutions or community groups. But they believe in the free mediocre sushi and abundant charging stations of the airport lounge,” Frank Bruni tells Bret Stephens in their weekly conversation.
Opinion | A Pardoned Turkey, an Unpardonable Man
Many affluent Americans no longer believe in civic institutions or community groups.
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase,
barbarize or refine us. … According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply
them, or they totally destroy them.
~ Edmund Burke, c. 19
Quite amusing op-ed 🦃
barbarize or refine us. … According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply
them, or they totally destroy them.
~ Edmund Burke, c. 19
Quite amusing op-ed 🦃
When I was in Wellington, NZ, this campaign had dropped by the Ministry of Social Development. What if Australia and USA followed suit? Could intimate partner violence and DV be reduced? I hope so…
www.lovebetter.org.nz?gad_source=1...
www.lovebetter.org.nz?gad_source=1...
Navigate the messy stuff in Relationships | Love Better
Love Better is a primary prevention campaign aimed at fostering safe, positive, and equal relationships.
www.lovebetter.org.nz
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
When I was in Wellington, NZ, this campaign had dropped by the Ministry of Social Development. What if Australia and USA followed suit? Could intimate partner violence and DV be reduced? I hope so…
www.lovebetter.org.nz?gad_source=1...
www.lovebetter.org.nz?gad_source=1...
“The writer and director's new film plays with surreality and cinematic language that borders on supernatural horror”
This film reminded me of Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’
www.bkmag.com/2025/11/18/m...
This film reminded me of Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’
www.bkmag.com/2025/11/18/m...
Mary Bronstein on The "Existential Terror" of 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You'
Unpacking the dread, panic, and raw anxiety of 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' with writer and director Mary Bronstein.
www.bkmag.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“The writer and director's new film plays with surreality and cinematic language that borders on supernatural horror”
This film reminded me of Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’
www.bkmag.com/2025/11/18/m...
This film reminded me of Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’
www.bkmag.com/2025/11/18/m...
“Tobacco, swiss roll, Irish whiskey, Guinness and monkey nuts” - Dylan Thomas’ shopping list (I’d read it) 🥜
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers
Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show aut...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Tobacco, swiss roll, Irish whiskey, Guinness and monkey nuts” - Dylan Thomas’ shopping list (I’d read it) 🥜
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The ballet duo in the swinging sixties in Lebanon 🩰🧿 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
Dancing under the Phoenician sun
Margot and Rudolf in Lebanon, 1960s. A reflection on bright and beautiful times.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The ballet duo in the swinging sixties in Lebanon 🩰🧿 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
My favorite time is in time’s other side, its other identity, the kind that collapses and sometimes reappears, and sometimes doesn’t. The one that looks like marshmallows, pomegranates, and stranger things… ~ Etel Adnan
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
Shifting the Silence to Find the Meaning: 95-Year-Old Artist, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on How to Live and How to Die
“The universe makes a sound — is a sound. In the core of this sound there’s a silence, a silence that creates that sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul… Silence is…
www.themarginalian.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
My favorite time is in time’s other side, its other identity, the kind that collapses and sometimes reappears, and sometimes doesn’t. The one that looks like marshmallows, pomegranates, and stranger things… ~ Etel Adnan
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
Black Grace world premiere of “If There Ever Was a Time” by Neil Leremia and Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade”.
The words in the programme provoke: “If ever was a time for rebellion, for action, for hope, for humanity, for love—it’s probably now.”
The words in the programme provoke: “If ever was a time for rebellion, for action, for hope, for humanity, for love—it’s probably now.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Black Grace world premiere of “If There Ever Was a Time” by Neil Leremia and Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade”.
The words in the programme provoke: “If ever was a time for rebellion, for action, for hope, for humanity, for love—it’s probably now.”
The words in the programme provoke: “If ever was a time for rebellion, for action, for hope, for humanity, for love—it’s probably now.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My beautiful friend Joëlle has published these lovely ballet journals for young dancers: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1HKD7C... 🩰💕
My Ballet Diary
Visit Amazon's My Ballet Diary Page and shop for all My Ballet Diary books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of My Ballet Diary
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November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
My beautiful friend Joëlle has published these lovely ballet journals for young dancers: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1HKD7C... 🩰💕
“In Lanthimos’s movies, the sacrificial victim is a central figure, and it is very often the protagonist himself or herself … These are rites that demand no belief in anything, but, rather, mere vicarious participation.”
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
A World On Film Yorgos Lanthimos - Salmagundi Magazine
   I admit it: I screamed, startling everyone else in the theater, when Emma Stone’s cult-fanatic character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, released this past summer, sliced into...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“In Lanthimos’s movies, the sacrificial victim is a central figure, and it is very often the protagonist himself or herself … These are rites that demand no belief in anything, but, rather, mere vicarious participation.”
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/847...
Swans, scrap journals, ballet class & staying whimsical www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 🦢
“Ambrose,” by Allegra Goodman
Lily is not upset. She just wants to live in a castle or a secret cottage in the woods. She is writing a novel about a girl named Ambrose who becomes a swan at night.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Swans, scrap journals, ballet class & staying whimsical www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 🦢
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...
Reposted by Leila Lois
This month’s issue includes a previously unpublished poem by Dorothy Porter alongside poems by Mindy Gill and Peter Goldsworthy.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This month’s issue includes a previously unpublished poem by Dorothy Porter alongside poems by Mindy Gill and Peter Goldsworthy.
Reposted by Leila Lois
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
I turn to novels, and death haunts my reading, my familiar places, my reading about familiar places.”
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
Books in a Time of Grief | Sydney Review of Books
In mourning, Kylie Mirmohamadi finds herself turning, and returning, to novels. Perhaps there is something about the novel’s form that renders it an apt vehicle for articulating and making sense of mo...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I turn to novels, and death haunts my reading, my familiar places, my reading about familiar places.”
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
A beautiful essay on grief by my dear friend Kylie 🤍
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/books...
A wonderful essay on “fiction” 🧿 substack.com/@elifshafak/...
ALL THE COLOURS WE CANNOT SEE
This might be a strange thing for a fiction writer to say, but I do not like the word ‘fiction’ .
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November 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A wonderful essay on “fiction” 🧿 substack.com/@elifshafak/...
A new essay for Clare Carlin’s Textile Message 🪡✨ on remembering and becoming, through the clothing I’ve loved
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Leila Lois for Textile Message - Emerging Writers' Festival
For ‘EWF X Textile Message‘ as part of the 2025 Emerging Writers’ Festival. Beauty is not merely decorative. -Ocean Vuong Early memories of textile as solace and comfort Since as early as I can rem...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A new essay for Clare Carlin’s Textile Message 🪡✨ on remembering and becoming, through the clothing I’ve loved
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/leila-lois-f...
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/leila-lois-f...
Everyone has their own inner battles~ Ghayath Almadhoun
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open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
Ghayath Almadhoun
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November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Everyone has their own inner battles~ Ghayath Almadhoun
open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
open.spotify.com/episode/1C9L...
Reposted by Leila Lois
Happy All Souls’ Day!✨
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Happy All Souls’ Day!✨
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
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...