Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Leila Lois

@leilaboos.bsky.social

130 followers 120 following 550 posts

Dancer, editor, writer https://linktr.ee/leilalois 🌷 https://open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=on19n&utm_medium=ios 🌹

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

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 🤍

open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 21h

Florie—& I mean this, honey—I hope you never reached the interior of the planet Earth, never discovered uranium, rubies, & Unspoiled Monsters. With all my heart, what there is of it, I hope you moved to the country and lived there happily ever after.

~Truman Capote

open.spotify.com/episode/4x93...

Truman Capote

open.spotify.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 1d

"We loved her for her ambivalence about performing, how she wanted to be seen even as she ran from it, hiding her face under the brim of a hat, or behind tinted glasses, or in the arms of one of her onscreen lovers"

www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

Diane Keaton’s Shadows and Light

The actress’s nuanced ambivalence.

www.newyorker.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 2d

“For Holly, being half Kurdish and growing up in the United States without having traveled to Kurdistan or being fluent in Kurdish sometimes evokes sadness for what she feels she is missing.”

kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/4191

Journey Through Poetry and Identity

kurdistanchronicle.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful handmade jewellery back home in Aotearoa ✨

newzealandandmaoriart.com/jade-valour/...

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 3d

I’m intetested in myths because theyre full of extraordinary lies that make people unfree~ Angela Carter

open.spotify.com/episode/1GSH...

Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner

open.spotify.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 3d

A new mini essay with poem on a ballerina & the “beauty myth” 🩰🤍

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of you 🤍 let me know if you’d like a coffee x

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful reflections on grace of body & mind, & discovering empathy for roles, by Alina Cojocaru

open.spotify.com/episode/3e6G...

S10 E11: Alina Cojocaru

open.spotify.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 4d

“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...

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 5d

Diolch! 🎃

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 6d

It’s spooky season 👻 Nos Calan Gaeaf @reviewwales.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/6T9F...

EP160 Halloween Folklore: Ghostly Games & Welsh Spirits on Nos Calan Gaeaf (Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast with Mark Rees)

open.spotify.com

1 2 5

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d

while our daughter calls to remind us
to take pictures of things

she can draw—a sprig of rose hips, a clump of serviceberries.
A deer she nicknamed Chewy. Bellies full of chowder,
we almost forget one of us is dying.

~Martha Silano

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Is This My Last Ferry Trip?

Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us to our parking spots before we head up two flights to the passenger deck, to the cafeteria where a man in a black d...

www.poetryfoundation.org

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d

Brave & visionary 🩵

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 10d

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

Maggie Nelson, The Art of Nonfiction No. 13

“Any time someone has suggested that the kind of book I was describing couldn’t or shouldn’t be pulled off, it’s made me think, I’ll show you.”

www.theparisreview.org

1 2

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 10d

The migrant’s experience permeates all aspects of these paintings. Kahraman fixates on her subjects’ eyes — they are often left blank or depicted in the figures’ palms, like the hand of Fatima… said to ward off bad fortune.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

Forced to Flee Two Homes, a Painter Finds a Refuge on Canvas

www.nytimes.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 11d

open.substack.com/pub/elifshaf... 🕊️

Words Are Like Birds...

Why do we write?

open.substack.com

Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12d

A new essay/poem on nymphs & ballerinas

open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...