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Leigh Cowart

@voraciousbrain.bsky.social
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that weird masochist you heard about, author of "Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose" and repped by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
losing my shit bc I just found out that Nolan's cyclops was played by MR. NOODLE
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
willem dafoe, me, danny glover, and alex trebek had our birthday on the feast of mary magdalene this week, same as every year. disgust book almost finished, the painful hobbies continue, here's to 41!
leigh doing a vertical split on the pole, up off the ground, happy
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
how could you not be romantic about baseball
crawling sun bear looking shadyben affleck sighing 
shocked be this creature
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
baseball moodboard
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
christ alive
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
and let's be honest: I love a complicated shoe and a painful hobby, so getting my flesh bruised a couple times a week by a big, metal pole ticks pretty much all of my ex-ballerina boxes🥹 may our joys replenish us and keep us ever in the fight ❤️
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
in news I never ever EVER thought I'd be sharing: despite the 18 years that have passed since ballet nearly killed me and I had to quit, and after more therapy than I could possibly even begin to describe--I started dancing again. things are so hard but this? oh man. I missed my heart 😭😭😭😭
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
hi! if you are one of my friends, please say hi when you follow me, so I see you and can follow back. l don't wanna miss you 💕 picture of Carol with his tiddies out for tax
Orange tabby sitting with his front legs close together so it looks like he has boobies; eyes indicate that he does not have the brain cell right now
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
perfect last minute gift idea: a science book about masochism that will make you squirm, laugh, cry, drool, giggle, snort, shriek, and do a big gay sigh with your hand over your heart 💝 "Hurts So Good" has all that and a blurb from THE @edyong209.bsky.social!! you cannot miss!
"It's a testament to Leigh Cowart's skill and charm that a book about pain should feel so joyful.... Hurts So Good is a book of wonderful paradoxes--a rich, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating look at a world that most of us know but few of us understand." - Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of "I Contain Multitudes"
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
like this
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
never realized patroclus was from massachusetts
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
delicious
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
oh we're sharing our favorite @scumbelievable.bsky.social tweets?? this one has been on my phone forever, assigned harpooner at birth baby
AFAB: Assigned female at birth
AMAB: Assigned male at birth
ACAB: All cops are bastards
AHAB: Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink a-
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
looking for my #sensualbaseball people over here, come to me my precious
shohei ohtani with his mouth open, eyes closed, face tipped up, being showered with, uh, definitely beer, a liquid that definitely doednt resemble piss or cum or milk or any other mammalian fluid
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
to be fair, every time larry hotdogs secures the papacy, she is up against these two and they, well
Two tabby orange cats sitting in a box together, with just their heads peeking out. one is twice as large as the other and he is smiling; the other is small and she is nearly asleep, her head resting on her wittle paw. they are the epitome of vacancy.
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
undefeated conclave champion lawrence wieners I
beautiful grumpy gray cat being held like an upright baby, scowling
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
"Downtown Asheville infrastructure remained largely untouched by the storm" this is not true!!! municipal water IS infrastructure and baby, there is nothing coming through the taps that you want to touch raw always.exploreasheville.com
"Downtown Asheville infrastructure remained largely untouched by the storm, allowing shops and restaurants to reopen, some with limited operations, alongside our neighbors in the towns of Weaverville and Black Mountain. We are filled with hope and heart as music venues begin to turn on stage lights and holiday events take shape."
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
dressing up as a golden retriever for the dark season
voraciousbrain, face tipped up into the sun, eyes closed, golden retriever-like copper hair flowing in breeze
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
I have personal news: started watching star trek enterprise
T'pol: one of the first things a diplomat learns is not to stick his fingers where they don't belong
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
how often do you cry? ngl I am good for like 6 or 7 times a day, minimum. I used to try really hard not to cry, but that was a waste of a life, so now I'm here to spread the gospel of the lacrymal agenda 🥲
Leigh making crying face in front of a big eye that is crying
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
oh my god I'm so excited for baseball today!!!! counting down the hours, baby!!!!!!!!
bryce harper's little green phanatic mitten
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
it's cold enough for Miss Larry Hotdogs to crawl into my lap, one of my favorite holidays
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
as an author of a science book about masochism, here's bryce harper (2018)
harper face down getting crazy intense cupping all over his entire back
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
honestly can't fuckin believe evan longoria is still playing baseball??? I miss when his batting stance looked like he was just some dude hanging out
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
showed this lil guy to my partner who shouted "WOW must have a crazy immune system to have an entirely moist face full of folds like that!!!" and now I gotta find a bat immunologist to talk to asap
Centurio senex, two pics: face flap down, and face flap up
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
she knew
Larry Hotdogs, grey cat, sticking tongue out and receiving pet
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
why science writing? because when you hand a grown ass adult a pair of eclipse glasses, they always do a little earnest gasp when they see that part of the sun appears to be totally missing. happy eclipse day to every stranger who reveled in this joy with me, wonder is best when it's shared 🥲
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
ten years ago, #sensualbaseball was born today, #sensualbaseball thrives, perfected
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
how can you not be romantic about baseball
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
best part of the cat circus was the one who decided she'd rather watch the show then do the show. unanimous crowd favorite.
cat wearing frilly collar, sitting in the audience, watching the show
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
did you know that october is a perfect month to read about masochism and carry around a book with a huge whip on the cover?
a black cat (you) getting squirted in the face with milk by a bunch of cow teats (my book)a person offering a duck to a field of flowers; in this, I am the person, the duck is my book, and yall are the field of flowera
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
skincare friends: I was looking for my new sunscreen and I FOUND IT. thank you to @eveettinger.com! it wears like a nice moisturizer. like, I am fully indoors with covid and I still put it on this AM www.stylevana.com/en_US/deal-beauty…
beauty of joseon - relief sun rice + probiotic spf50+ pa++++ - 50ml
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
it's carol time. he escaped yesterday and when we found him he was covered in pine tar. we rubbed him with olive oil and removed the noxious goo (he was swaddled for this). we basically deep conditioned the cat.
orange cat sitting on fridge looking alertorange cat sitting on fridge making a weird mouth shape like humph orange cat sitting on fridge looking aside and smiling
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
the tummy is not a trap, I repeat, the tummy is not a trap
fluffy small orange tabby showing tummy
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
does anyone need to see citrus rn
tiny orange tabby with her tongue out licking her nose, blissfully ensconced in a mattress topper fresh from the dryer
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Starting in fifteen minutes, in case you are interested in anti-capitalist kink and/or all the idiot objects I have used for SM 🤡 Link: www.patreon.com/posts/8-2-deep-dive…
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
doctor baby
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
looking for something else, instead found a treasure trove of pictures I'd forgotten about. which is wild, bc how the fuck could I forget THIS???
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
the neighborhood rattle tractor just drove by my house absolutely blasting john cougar mellencamp's hurts so good, you know that this means
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
our large son
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
if you've never picked wineberries, you might think I'm exaggerating. but if you have? then you know. you know what it's like. those prickly little shits will make you pay and you will thank them like the piss baby berry bitch you are.
colander full of wineberries featuring some of the prickly bits still attached
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
paperbacks coming 7/18 🐷
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 27/06/2023
psst can you find the secret message
Butt in pink shorts with my July 18th paperback publication date written on the picture. Hot pink paperbacks of "Hurt So Good" coming out the same week as the Barbie Movie
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
photobombed by titty baby carol
orange cat, just in frame, staring at a bare nipple close-up crop of just the cat staring at the bare nipple
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
I found a loose shrimp in my bed
fluffy orange cat curled up on a bed in the classic shrimp position
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
little guy morning crew: present & accounted for
Screenshot of Merlin bird id app showing: house finch, Carolina wren, house wren, song sparrow, tufted titmouse
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
beef: it's what's for dinner [Aaron Copeland emerges from the grave, hostile and screaming]
selfie of white genderqueer person with tattoos flexing newly enlarged bicep in car after sweaty workout and smiling
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
"It's always something." lux-magazine.com/article/disability…
"Illness, I think, is a temporality — and not, as Susan Sontag famously posited in Illness as Metaphor, a place, where everyone holds dual citizenship between the kingdoms of sickness and health and can pass between the two. The truer statement, it seems to me, belongs to Gilda Radner, who died young of ovarian cancer: “It’s always something.” Constantly dealing with those somethings takes time, and you can no longer even pretend that your life will go along in an orderly, productive way. But does anyone’s? I’ve come to realize that the bifurcation between the sick and the well, the disabled and the able-bodied, is capitalism’s intervention. In reality, there are just bodies, just us."
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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
secret message from my mullein
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