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Leila Lois
@leilaboos.bsky.social
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Dancer, editor, writer https://linktr.ee/leilalois 🌷 https://open.substack.com/pub/leilalois?r=on19n&utm_medium=ios 🌹
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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 🤍

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 6h
Thinking of you 🤍 let me know if you’d like a coffee x
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 17h
Beautiful reflections on grace of body & mind, & discovering empathy for roles, by Alina Cojocaru

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S10 E11: Alina Cojocaru
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 17h
Beautiful reflections on grace of body & mind, & discovering empathy for roles, by Alina Cojocaru

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 19h
“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.”

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 20h
Diolch! 🎃
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 1d
It’s spooky season 👻 Nos Calan Gaeaf @reviewwales.bsky.social

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EP160 Halloween Folklore: Ghostly Games & Welsh Spirits on Nos Calan Gaeaf (Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast with Mark Rees)
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 4d
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

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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...
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 5d
Brave & visionary 🩵
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 5d
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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.”
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 6d
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.

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Forced to Flee Two Homes, a Painter Finds a Refuge on Canvas
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 7d
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Words Are Like Birds...
Why do we write?
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 8d
A new essay/poem on nymphs & ballerinas

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d
Adoring this first person essay series… this one, Lisa Carver visits The Moulin Rouge in 1980s

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d
A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion
… True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our heart. 🤍

www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/26/j...
Jane Goodall on the Meaning of Wisdom and the Deepest Wellspring of Hope
“A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion… True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our …
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d
When I got to Cambridge University, they told me you can’t be a good scientist and have empathy for your subjects. Fortunately, I had a wonderful teacher that taught me those scientists were absolutely wrong. ~ Jane Goodall 🦋🤍

www.vogue.co.uk/article/jane...
9 Life Lessons From Jane Goodall As She Turns 90
“Take advantage of every opportunity and if you don’t give up, hopefully you find a way,” Dr Goodall told Vogue. “That message I’ve taken around the world.”
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d
It’s lovely 🌊
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d
Big news 🐻🥰 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Dominant on the river’: 32 Chunk crowned champion in ‘biggest Fat Bear Week yet’
Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 9d
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 · 10d
Quite the title but interesting— sauna/ cold plunge & performance

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Half Naked and Sweating With Strangers, for Art
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12d
She was wonderful
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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 12d
Welsh folklore tells us to take care tonight:
"Michaelmas Day was credited with uncanny power in Wales. There was an old superstition that on this night the Cistfaens (warriors' graves) were illuminated by spectral lights for the ghosts of ancient warmen were engaged in deadly fray."
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12d
Kahraman saw the flames... & felt instantly transported to the past. She suddenly found herself in her childhood bedroom in Baghdad, where she had watched air raids falling from the sky. “I was 10 years old,” Kahraman recalls, the same age that her daughter is now.

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In Hayv Kahraman’s New Show, the Artist Heals From Devastation
“Ghost Fires” sees the painter processing the loss of her home in Altadena, L.A. earlier this year—and how it connects to her complicated upbringing.
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 12d
I was a photo innocent… until about twenty years ago. ~ Sally Mann

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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 13d
Mon dieu www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Isabelle Huppert to headline 2026 Adelaide festival in ‘astounding’ role as Mary, Queen of Scots
The French screen and stage legend will star in Mary Said What She Said, a one-woman show created by late theatre luminary Robert Wilson, in March
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 15d
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