christa

hibernation from screen time fr

We are not supposed to have unfettered access to mass amounts of information at such rapid speeds 😭

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Ah yes, the Trump administration took notes from Veresailles...

weaponize your worst character flaws against yourself and write about them!!!

FYI the next month is going to be me crashing out in various ways because MFA application results are coming out

i am going to stay offline for the rest of the weekend bc my mind is just *not in it*

me: I am reaping the benefits of what I sow
also me: oh god why did I agree to doing all this much birjsbdiehfidhcidnn

I am aspiring to be less online and less available.
I want to be a mysterious blob that everyone is like oOoOOoOooOooOoO

hi friends,
my first publication of the year is out!
please check it out, respond if you enjoyed it and reshare!

https://theseventhwave.org/publication/on-separation/christa-lei/

I resent the romanticism of writing in isolation. I blame Thoreau for it (thoroughly, pun intended) but even so, I'm never writing alone. Even if I'm by myself. Even if I'm in nature. I'm in good company, and my writing infuses every bit of inspiration and the love of others in its DNA.

writing about exes that you're still friends with is challenging, but you can warn them ahead of time AND change their names lol

also for ease, i switched my handle to @christalei.me 😀 because it was easier for people to remember. and i'm retiring isthiswhatyouwant.org

i do think that f murray abraham gives this a more obsessive quality than paul bettany's adaptation is like almost homo-erotic obsessive. like a man that fetishes mozart as a conduit of god and wants to consume him

i think adding a lot of mozart's life (tho obvs with the source material, still liberties taken) added a lot of flavour that deepens it. but god i wanted this to be gayer

obviously i still prefer milos forman's adapation of AMADEUS but something about the new will sharpe & paul bettany one adds some flavor. and some gay. and a lot of diversity.

It really cannot be emphasized enough that the Holocaust was modeled after the American campaign to displace and exterminate Indigenous people. This country drew up that blueprint.

Merry Crimbus, I put up the website~ (my project with my husband lol)

In a resurgence of the indie web, I wanted to introduce my newest little side project: the WWWW (World Wide Writers Webring)
https://app.webringstudio.com/rings/f6ce7d19-a78b-4438-8717-9f5949295a8c
Please join!

in a hyperfixation personal website dev phase kick where i play around with code and mash it up and create an abomination
here are my most recent results (i still need to troubleshoot itttttt)

i mean this so genuinely, everyone please get your ass a personal website. NO MORE RELIANCE ON PLATFORMS (except for socializing and chaos but come on!!!)

I also recommend people checking out (if they’re nerdy enough) the tildeverse and CLI based social communities because lo-fi, text based AND they give you space to build a website

(tilde.club) I just happen to love this on

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

wild.
u can now @ me @isthiswhatyouwant.org

RESCHEDULING! SOFT BOI: A Reading with MK Zariel + christa lei · Zoom · Luma SOFT BOI: A Boy Apparition x Soft Places Reading (An online event on Zoom) There are two transmasculine genders: the butch anarchist, and the tiny atemporal…

@christalei.bsky.social and i are still doing a #poetry reading! join us in early january: luma.com/pfk7h1b1

i'm trying to figure out alternative secure forms of communication besides irl and silos... but also a way to express myself and play with code:
tilde.club/~christa

i joined the tildeverse recently and it's been fun to explore

RFK Jr announces moves to cut off gender-affirming care for children – US politics live Donald Trump’s health secretary announces rules designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors

This is why you never give an inch to the bigots. All those centrists dems (Newsom, Mayo Pete) claiming there are concerns around trans kids, you're complicit in this.

This doesn't get rid of trans people, it just makes them suffer unbearably. Get your head straight: trans rights are human rights.

one of my LORs got their thank you present in the mail and i am v grateful for them and we just caught up and i love having writing friends, teachers, mentors <3

whoops.
here it is:
bloodtreeliterature.com

v proud of our issue.

hi friends~
my first issue as a cnf editor for blood tree literature is out!