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Leila Lois

@leilaboos.bsky.social
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Dancer, editor, writer linktr.ee/leilalois 🌷 open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=o… 🌹

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There was no epiphany, just dirt, the vast curtain between this realm and the other. You never speak to me, I thought, not even in dreams. For hours, I sat there, mocked by the bees-silly girl, their golden faces laughed, she still wants and wants. ~ Aria Aber
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There are things unbearable. Legs, alas. Legs die. Rocking themselves down, crazy slow, some ballet term for it — fragment of foil, little spin, little drunk, little do, little oh, alas. ~ Anne Carson, Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A new short story, Gingerbread Houses, in Amaranth Journal 🍬🍪 amaranthjournal.com/wp-content/u...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A new essay~ A Camellia Has No Scent: from Marguerite to Anora, and why the tragic heroine has never been more alive 🌸 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In a world that feels fragmented, there's something profound about gathering to witness bodies telling stories that words cannot capture? ~ Van Cleef & Arpels Director of Dance & Culture, Serge Laurent My exclusive feature on the Dance Reflections series in this season’s M!NDFOOD STYLE 💎🩰✨
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A book is a gift to a stranger ~ Zadie Smith We had a wonderful time literary fangirling at Zadie Smith’s talk in Melbourne last night. Eloquent and real as ever ✨
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This morning’s listening party of Mitski’s new cat album. Tabby is pondering his review 😉 open.spotify.com/album/2M9F3A...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Saw Wuthering Heights tonight, with whimsical girlfriends 🌾💕 we laughed, we delighted…I cried (final scene will strike a chord with those who have lost someone they love more than anything forever, with no goodbye) It’s an entirely different beast to the book, yet it’s a limbic cinematic trip still
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
There's a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I'm about to burst into tears, right before I burst into tears and flee to the slimy moonlit riverbed canopied with devastated clouds. ~ Richard Siken, from ‘Crush’
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tonight, The Garden of Desires, 1987 by Ali Hamroyev. Haunting & beautiful 🥀
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Tonight’s film, Closer, 2004, “No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?” 💘
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Tonight’s recommendation, Brooklyn, 2015, with Saoirse Ronan, “You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out... And you'll realize that this is where your life is."
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Starting with ‘Cet Obscur Objet du Désir’, Luis Buñuel, 1977 💃🏽
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's misty in the dream. It says you promised to go on. ~ Elizabeth Willis (inspired by @alinaetc.bsky.social)
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My heart aches as these figures continue to come out of tens of thousands of deaths in Iran, and across Rojhelat, Rojava & Ilam 🧿 I bought another nazar on Sydney Rd. The seller said it will protect 🩷
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
All of my choreographic creations are inspired by the human condition and my desire to capture these stories through movement. Macbeth is a story fuelled by the human condition; love, grief, guilt, pain and ambition. - Alice Topps Read our interview in Dance Aus ♥️ www.zinio.com/in/article/d...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
State-backed violence against Kurds has amplified in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq since the new year, as our people are detained, tortured and murdered for imagining freedom. Alongside them, many many others. Check in on your Kurdish friends, we appreciate it always 💕🧿
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Thinking how painfully accurate the film Leila’s Brothers is to reality in Iran & parts of Iraq right now, how sanctions and economic collapse shape everyday life, breaking families and stealing futures, especially for women. Silenced & killed…a generation forced into survival instead of living 💔
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A new short story in Aetherium Literary Journal 🦋
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Yalda pîroz bê 🌹🕯️wishing all a bright, hopeful dawn
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
More sweetness, more understanding 🍰🩰 An essay & poem for the end of 2025, on my substack: open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We were body surfing a wave of public rage attempting to swim it was terrific thrilling hate sprayed us on the left and on the right we wondered would it smash us into a reef ~ Alicia Ostriker
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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.”
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/0TpS... We should be interested in untold stories ~ Elif Shafak 💕
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A new short story, in time for Gingerbread Season 🍭💕 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
A new essay & a poem on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Manon. A ballet I could see so many times… An excerpt from my review (closing words) below~~ Her character once received by audiences as reprehensible, leaves us with a timely question: how has the policing of and exploitation of women’s bodies led to violence and why does this violence persist?
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Winogrand shot women across New York, LA, and Texas in the 1960s and '70s. The shots of women on the streets, beaches, clubs, and suburbs of America typified street style photography. — Women Are Beautiful publicdelivery.org/garry-winogr...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Beautiful handmade jewellery back home in Aotearoa ✨ newzealandandmaoriart.com/jade-valour/...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A new mini essay with poem on a ballerina & the “beauty myth” 🩰🤍
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“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...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A new essay/poem on nymphs & ballerinas open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
But if you knew her, you came to recognize that sudden, rooted attention. ~ Ninette de Valois (on Margot Fonteyn) Attention is the beginning of devotion ~ Mary Oliver 🤍
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
For Schopenhauer, all moral actions can be expressed by the Latin phrase Neminem laede, imo omnes quantum potes, juva (“Injure no one; on the contrary, help everyone as much as you can”) philosophynow.org/issues/52/Sc...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New musings, & a poem, on my substack: open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A stunning night exploring fashion, memory & poetry, with @piecedwork.bsky.social for @emergingwriters.bsky.social 🩷
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Max Dupain & Man Ray at Heide Moma. A beautifully curated photography dreamscape 🤍
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A new essay on freedom (& Rudi in 1960s Parisian Springtime) 🌸 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Join us on Zoom August 30th from 2pm to 3:30pm EDT for Sleeping in the Courtyard live reading, from Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/ArUEqXotVm8k...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Happy week-end. Fresh print 🩷🧿 New anthology of contemporary Kurdish writing 🪬💕 Copies here, via @uarkpress.bsky.social www.uapress.com/product/slee...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
So far, Balladz by Sharon Olds, From From by Monica Youn & Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong 🤍
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
So lovely to be in this company, for this wonderful research on Kurdish dance 🤍 nlka.net/eng/kurdish-...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Death is a hat we look in for the head that wore it, a picture we take in the future of the past. ~ Bob Hicok, The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV) 🤍 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
New essay on paying attention to beauty, and Margot's smile open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Everyone talks about the beauty of nature, but people are far more beautiful. Nature is only a backdrop, like scenery at a theatre, and all the man-made objects only props. People are the beauty & the light & the point & the purpose. ~ @zadiesmith.bsky.social I needed Zadie & sunshine today 🌞
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Walk outside in Florida, and a snake will be watching you ~Lauren Groff, Florida
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🩰🐱 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Time is precious ~~ ✨
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Down with theocracy! ~ The Seed of the Sacred Fig
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