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!!!)

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

@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

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!

Presenting the Diverse Reading Challenge 2025 ♡ Will take part on storygraph, in discord and there will be a wee chat on instagram. Would appreciate a share ♡ Will type prompts in alt text! 💙📚 📚🌈

Remember, Mr. Rogers' original comment was intended for CHILDREN. Children need comfort, and their power is obviously very limited. We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

fyi if you've wronged me and never acknowledged it, i am going to be so loud and obnoxious about it :)

I thought of an even lower stakes way of keeping in touch with me and stockpiling me for resources. Weeeeee. Introducing the Tiny Tiny Garden! tinytiny.garden

anyway I love that recovery has been mostly me playing Pokémon and watching tv and journaling and crying

i feel like after my saturn return, something in me broke and i don't mind crying. crying is a release! i love tearz!!! just not when ppl witness them

i'm crying, a union email started with "we are approaching the end of the year and what a depressing one it's been" which is the mood

One of the most joyous feelings in the world is when your local elected officials are happy to see you show up for the small, but vitally important, civic meetings that make a community run. Even better? When they *hate* to see you show up.

I can't believe Olivia Nuzzi is younger than me and has not only majorly fucked up her career, but also written and published a mediocre Joan Didion-esque memoir that has no story whatsoever.

My gynecologist still thinks it’s weird that I wanted to keep my uterus and I told her I should have asked for religious reasons but I mean yeah…. Wouldn’t you want a piece of the thing that caused you immense pain?

"Poets are often drawn to the genre because they can cloak their personal struggles with metaphor and allusion and any other veil of the trade they can unpack." @tsvoboda.bsky.social interviewed by @christalei.bsky.social on her new book, Hitler & My Mother-in-Law epiphanyzine.com/features/ter...

my piece 'soft places' is featured in door = jar's winter issue: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/winte... pre-order today, or just check out t(free99) the piece (in its entirety lol) on the website

my biggest regret in life is not buying a condo closer to the only Costco I know of in brooklyn

i made my first nomination for pushcart as an editor hehehehehe i feel good hyping my writing community up

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me. It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion. It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care. Listen to disabled people.

I know my spouse and I have been together for a long time when we’ve picked up each other’s neurodivergence 😂

someone bake skillet cornbread with honey butter for me all day every day plz

FINALLY GOT DIAGNOSED FOR THE THING THATS BEEN CAUSING ME PAIN AND ALL IT TOOK WAS YEETING MY UTERUS TO DO IT

surprise i wrote about my hysterectomy a little isthiswhatyouwant.org/posts/soft-p...

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

what is meant for me is meant for me and apparently the universe is like shut up bitch we like when you’re strange and make shit up more than your traumatic dramatic real life

All joking aside, Mamdani being a Trump Whisperer doesn’t mean Trump is no longer a fascist—he is and Mamdani even said so in the Oval Office with Trump—but it might mean Mamdani will be better able to protect and provide for New Yorkers while Trump is in power. And that’s a good thing.

if i directly solicit you for a piece to send to one of the publications where i'm an editor, there's like a 99.9% chance you're going to be published esp if you direct your query TO ME IN UR COVER LETTER OK

join @christalei.bsky.social and I for a #poetry reading next month <3 luma.com/pfk7h1b1

I mean this is fairly obvious since there's a book about it, but in terms of prolific white women writers who primarily talk about LA, you've got Joan Didion and Eve Babitz. And one of them is your favorite. You can't choose both. I have a favorite. And I only fuck with people who share the fave

What’s meant for me is meant for me. 💓

This is Fendi. He is seen here demonstrating the internationally acknowledged sign language for politely requesting uppies. 13/10 would pick him up immediately (TT: isthat_jojo)

This man’s family survived the Nazis only to be persecuted by ICE 70 years later. Paul John Bojerski is being held in a camp & threatened with deportation despite being born in a German refugee camp. He’s in a wheelchair being denied his regular medical care & medicine:

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is getting tax payer funded FBI protection, despite not being his spouse & not living in the same city You know who doesn’t get any protection? The Epstein survivors The women who people feel should “name names” despite having their lives threatened repeatedly for years

Dr Oz isn’t mincing words, he’s stating the regime’s eugenicist goals loud & clear “Want to drop the cost of healthcare in America? Get healthy” Where does that leave disabled and chronically ill people? We can’t “choose” to get healthy. They have no plan for healthcare. Their plan is eugenics

the biggest mindfuck of getting surgery is not being able to eat anything but liquids for 24h leading up to it and IT IS THE WORST

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

bad news everyone my surgeon won't let me keep my diseased uterus when it comes out because they have to chop and splice it into pieces to confirm that i have said affliction that she suspects

Why is Trump taking a page from Duterte's book? This is ICC/ICJ level shit. Duterte's there RN www.politico.com/news/2025/09... (I know I'll get shit for this, where are the feds tracking my shit)

I expect nothing from the facilitator themselves (though a genuine apology would be nice!) But love that my concerns were taken seriously by the agency <3

I am listening to a remastered version of the WINGS deluxe album and now crave a collaboration between Paul McCartney and Benny & Bjorn from ABBA. I do think they would create some magic????

Finally sent a letter of grievance to the workshop facilitator whose workshop traumatized me lmao. Except the person doesn’t have their email listed publicly… so I sent it to their booking agent instead because it’s their reputation on the line 🤷🏻‍♀️

this is an amazing photo