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christa lei

@christalei.bsky.social

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if sailor moon was a fat, queer, disabled writer & consultant 💓✨ Tin House ‘25, DISQUIET ‘25 ✍🏼 matador contributor; writing in vast chasm & herstry, etc JAKE poetry editor & blood tree lit CNF editor https://christalei.me/links

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 2d

currently sitting in a @tinhouse.bsky.social reading, listening to my workshop facilitator @emnorth.bsky.social wax on about their love for minions, which they identify as their gender.

i feel grateful and rich in community.
witnessing other's art in its rich, strange, queer euphoria is joyful

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 2d

Rich white nepo babies who seek leadership positions truly never grow up. Our president is throwing tantrums over criticism and suing left and right. What happened to the First Amendment?

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 24d

This got lost enough that I, at least, didn't see it. Tr*mp sues Penguin Random House for $15 billion for publishing a book that cast him in a negative light. Going after comedians is indeed terrifying. Going after publishers is at least equally terrifying.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Trump Sues Penguin Random House, ‘New York Times’ for $15 Billion

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing the New York Times and four of its reporters, as well as Penguin Random House, which published the book Lucky Loser, of trying to undermine his 2024...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 3d

There is no ethical way to engage with Harry Potter.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 3d

Hi all~
A reminder that I'm one of the CNF editors at Blood Tree Literature and our submissions are open til Oct 30th!
www.bloodtreeliterature.com
Please submit something--we barely get CNF submissions and I'd to publish your work! (Ask for a fee waiver) #writers #writingcommunity

Blood Tree Literature

Blood Tree Literature is an online magazine for literary and visual arts.

www.bloodtreeliterature.com

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

Part memoir and reportage, SEMIOTICS OF SPACE investigates how chronic pelvic pain and intergenerational trauma shape intimacy in queer, polyamorous life. A study of love as labor, and healing as unfinished work. #DVpit #A #Memoir

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

WHAT MY BONES KNOW x MORE: A queer, chronically ill Fil-Am writer maps chronic illness and polyamory through attachment theory and c-PTSD. Blending memoir and reportage, SEMIOTICS OF SPACE examines how generational trauma and chronic pain complicate care, desire, and belonging. #DVpit #A #memoir #NF

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

oh my god this is so cute :')

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

as an aside a mash up that i'd like to hear irl that i've been mixing in my head is the pussycat dolls 'when i grow up' and pinkprincess' 'illegal'

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

lol i am stubborn with this one. i'm so loud with my nonfiction and quiet in my fiction. but this one is a manuscript that neeeeeeds to come out. i hope it finds the right home eventually

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

Immortality doesn’t make them better at love.
Hera bargains with forgiveness. Eros forgets how to love without proof. Persephone learns that spring can’t always return. MYTH CONCEPTIONS reimagines mythology as a study of intimacy where Olympus unravels through longing.
#DVpit #A #SF #MythRetelling

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

WHAT MY BONES KNOW x MORE: A queer, chronically ill Fil-Am writer maps chronic illness and polyamory through attachment theory and c-PTSD. Blending memoir and reportage, SEMIOTICS OF SPACE examines how generational trauma and chronic pain complicate care, desire, and belonging. #DVpit #A #memoir #NF

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

I have! The story for this idea came mainly from a post here I wrote about no longer dating any Jonathans lmaooooo, but it's something I'm excited to work on!

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

thank you <3
it's a project i've worked on for the last 1.5 decades (wild! i conceived of it as a teen in hs!) also big fan of your work and what you're doing for pilipine representation <3

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 4d

Eros builds a dating app, then watches algorithms replace devotion. When the divine move online, revelation turns into customer service. MYTH CONCEPTIONS is a linked cycle following gods learning that immortality doesn’t prevent obsolescence.
#DVpit #SpecFic #LiteraryFiction #MythRetelling

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 5d

mythological retellings are fan fiction change my mind

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 5d

Working on so many things.
But I think the next project will be a fun one!

Think Big Brother meets Squid Game--an anonymous show-runner traps her exes (all called Jonathan) in an estate to compete for their survival on livestream.
#DVParty

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 5d

DAY 6 of #DVParty, a community event to highlight the work of Diverse Creators leading up to our pitch event, #DVPit on Oct 8th, 2025! All diverse creators can participate!

Today's Prompt: Hype up your next project or WiP!

For more info about #DVpit go to dvpit.carrd.co
#artsky #booksky #writersky

#DVparty
Day 6 (October 7, 2025): Hype up your next project!
Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag.
Open all day!
Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed.
Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit!
More info at dvpit.carrd.co
Follow us at dvpit.bsky social for more updates!

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 6d

Have we decided what we are calling these yet because they're not tweets? I know this says post, but that feels... inappropriate for these tidbits

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 7d

I very famously date(d) a lot of Jonathans. Like John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, my life has been an abundance of Jonathans and tbh unless they’re all gonna come out of hiding to apologize for their poor behavior I don’t want any of them anymore so no I will not anonymize the Jonathans

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 9d

if you do not want art created about you, simply do not date an artist.

but also, if you don't want shitty things written about you*, maybe don't treat someone like shit?

*i always try to anonymize :-)

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 9d

if you do not want art created about you, simply do not date an artist.

but also, if you don't want shitty things written about you*, maybe don't treat someone like shit?

*i always try to anonymize :-)

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 9d

gays, who let bill condon do kiss of the spider woman like that? but ok queens obviously jlo is SO STOKED AND HAVING SO MUCH FUN AND TAKING THIS SO SERIOUSLY Tho

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 9d

annnouncing this now, if your name is Andrew or Jonathan, leave me the fuck alone romantically/date wise because al these names have done is ghost 👻 me and been avoidant and aggravated my attachment issues

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

This WILL NOT mitigate any problems, and the state should not be pulling this shit. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you've talked a big game about opposing Trump, and now the state is pulling this? "Free speech zones" exist to make protesters irrelevant. Everyone knows this.

Paris Schultz tweets: "Illinois State Police and Cook County DOT officials now setting up barricades outside the Broadview ICE facility to create "first amendment zone" for protesters. ISP officer says he hopes it will mitigate a lot of the problems.

christa lei @christalei.bsky.social · 11d

here is another cool thing I wrote because I am a travel writer now

matadornetwork.com/read/things-...

Where to Play, Eat, and Stay in Chattanooga, Tennessee’s ‘Scenic City’

A pleasantly inclusive and accessible city, Chattanooga has great dining, outdoors, and culture without the downsides of mass tourism.

matadornetwork.com