"How I Learned I Was Allergic to Cats" will be published soon

What I have learned from AWP so far: We all have the resilience and resourcefulness of undergrads, as all of us love free swag and when orgs feed us.

friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: i am still at AWP and will be hopping around like the little introvert loner i am, plz come hang out with me.

no one on here but me will admit it but how many writers am i going to accidentally match with on feeld during AWP

I'm at AWP! (And alive. Come hang out with me for stickers)

Shout out to the Saturn in Aries babies and clients who came to me four years ago in a daze, attempting to brute force their way into prepping for this transit. It’s your time now 🥹

I only say that because I went out on my first dates in a year or so, and realized that I could no longer give pieces of myself up like I did with my most recent exes. But also, this new person I'm seeing is cute even though we watched Hamnet, which is not a date movie but oh well lol

One of the reasons I knew my ex and I were going to break up besides the obvious and complete lack of respect for me, was that they did not understand or watch "Everything Everywhere All At Once" to completion. Once. It was "too busy" for them and they didn't get it. If there was any one film (1/2)

Are some of these exhibition gala programs racist? Yeah, pretty much.

There was a website that used to post a series about people’s little black books (aka the hit list/people you screwed) and it was usually anonymous. That was my first piece of published writing at ~21? And it was anonymous. Miss u, magazine

I will probably crash out again in three to five business days thank you

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 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!!!)

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...