CN Lester 🏳️⚧️
@cnlester.bsky.social
Multi-genre musician: voice/piano/composition/improvisation
Artistic Director Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ various critical intros, 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
Artistic Director Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ various critical intros, 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
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CN Lester 🏳️⚧️
@cnlester.bsky.social
· Jun 23
I'm working so hard on letting other people see me again after some very hard years of fighting the need to defensively hide.
It means so much that I can actually see myself in my new headshots.
It means so much that I can actually see myself in my new headshots.
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'I don’t think we have the luxury of the self-protective cowardice of cynicism and apathy – I’m not sure that we ever did.'
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
CN Lester: Hope is a verb – Run Riot
www.run-riot.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
'I don’t think we have the luxury of the self-protective cowardice of cynicism and apathy – I’m not sure that we ever did.'
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
'I don’t think we have the luxury of the self-protective cowardice of cynicism and apathy – I’m not sure that we ever did.'
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
CN Lester: Hope is a verb – Run Riot
www.run-riot.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
'I don’t think we have the luxury of the self-protective cowardice of cynicism and apathy – I’m not sure that we ever did.'
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
New interview w/Run Riot on making trans art in a world on fire.
We can't only respond to threats - we have to build bulwarks against them.
www.run-riot.com/articles/blo...
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Phenomenal author @oliverradclyffe.bsky.social came by for a chat (thank you Oliver!) - I think this captures the mood perfectly substack.com/home/post/p-...
Nothing like doing the work when the work is like this
Nothing like doing the work when the work is like this
Transpose: Subverse
or a short lesson in quantum physics
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Phenomenal author @oliverradclyffe.bsky.social came by for a chat (thank you Oliver!) - I think this captures the mood perfectly substack.com/home/post/p-...
Nothing like doing the work when the work is like this
Nothing like doing the work when the work is like this
Incredible how much brighter the potentials of the world seem after a week spent working collaboratively with an incredible group of artist-activists.
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Incredible how much brighter the potentials of the world seem after a week spent working collaboratively with an incredible group of artist-activists.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
Very sad that Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' wasn't four hours long.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Very sad that Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' wasn't four hours long.
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'I’m choosing to engage with other artists doing hope, and the long traditions of artists and activists who have made hope with their bare hands.' Transpose: SUBVERSE opens at Barbican next week - new interview with me and director Jamie Hale disabilityarts.online/magazine/int...
Interview - CN Lester and Jamie Hale in conversation: disabled and trans artists changing the world with hope
Transpose Festival at the Barbican 12-15 November celebrates the power and exceptional artistry of trans and disabled voices. Transpose's Artistic Director, CN Lester had a conversation with CRIPtic A...
disabilityarts.online
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
'I’m choosing to engage with other artists doing hope, and the long traditions of artists and activists who have made hope with their bare hands.' Transpose: SUBVERSE opens at Barbican next week - new interview with me and director Jamie Hale disabilityarts.online/magazine/int...
Banging the 'This world could be a paradise if we work to make it so' sign
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Banging the 'This world could be a paradise if we work to make it so' sign
'I’m choosing to engage with other artists doing hope, and the long traditions of artists and activists who have made hope with their bare hands.' Transpose: SUBVERSE opens at Barbican next week - new interview with me and director Jamie Hale disabilityarts.online/magazine/int...
Interview - CN Lester and Jamie Hale in conversation: disabled and trans artists changing the world with hope
Transpose Festival at the Barbican 12-15 November celebrates the power and exceptional artistry of trans and disabled voices. Transpose's Artistic Director, CN Lester had a conversation with CRIPtic A...
disabilityarts.online
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
'I’m choosing to engage with other artists doing hope, and the long traditions of artists and activists who have made hope with their bare hands.' Transpose: SUBVERSE opens at Barbican next week - new interview with me and director Jamie Hale disabilityarts.online/magazine/int...
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Please check all that apply
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Please check all that apply
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just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
Keep coming back to the Mamdani campaign knocking on more than 3 million doors. What I wouldn't give to see that kind of effort and care in the UK.
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Keep coming back to the Mamdani campaign knocking on more than 3 million doors. What I wouldn't give to see that kind of effort and care in the UK.
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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
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Savor this moment, friends.
They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.
They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Savor this moment, friends.
They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.
They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.
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one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
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A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.