A new essay on cats & ballet— in Paris 🐱🩰 substack.com/@leilalois/n...

Painted when I was in dance college, just 23! auctions.internationalartcentre.co.nz/lots/view/4-...

A new short story, Gingerbread Houses, in Amaranth Journal 🍬🍪 amaranthjournal.com/wp-content/u...

In times of chaos, confusion & despair, creativity appears, to find a way through. ~ Joy Harjo open.spotify.com/episode/0NKY...

A new essay~ A Camellia Has No Scent: from Marguerite to Anora, and why the tragic heroine has never been more alive 🌸 open.substack.com/pub/leilaloi...

An interesting comparison, ultimately corrupted by “art” versus “content, and the commercialisation of digital media

How natural it is to fail, to fail, to decide, to remain in meaningless motion…or, like all of us, how active and yet inert life felt in this entirely to modern world. ~ Catherine Lacey www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The past Isn't dead... it isn't even the past. ~ William Faulkner crimereads.com/gothic-roman...

How George Sand - one of France’s first great women writers - became a trailblazing rule-breaker and a literary giant

Great headline www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Adored this film www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film...

In a world that feels fragmented, there's something profound about gathering to witness bodies telling stories that words cannot capture? ~ Van Cleef & Arpels Director of Dance & Culture, Serge Laurent My exclusive feature on the Dance Reflections series in this season’s M!NDFOOD STYLE 💎🩰✨

Flora' echoes Robin Wall Kimmerer's influential book, Braiding Sweetgrass. Kimmerer weaves together Indigenous (Potawatomi) wisdom and Western botanical science to argue that plants are not passive resources but generous beings. satpa.pe/4A8ew5f

Read more: satpa.pe/X5YAFND

My review of Bangarra X The Australian Ballet’s FLORA for @thesaturdaypaper.com.au 🪻 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/danc...

An incredible film. Bemused it wasn’t a pick for The Oscars. readrange.com/father-mothe...

Fabulous short- with Isabelle Huppert behind the scenes, it couldn’t fail to be www.newyorker.com/culture/scre...

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

"Window", a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, translated from the Persian by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. | https://poems.com/poem/window/ via @Poetry_Daily and @NewDirections

I 💛 The New York Times recipes

Despair & amnesia go hand in hand, and so do hope & memory ~Rebecca Solnit open.spotify.com/episode/0lmu...

Rage is an umbrella emotion… we need to investigate whats underneath it. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal open.spotify.com/episode/3HMJ...

A book is a gift to a stranger ~ Zadie Smith We had a wonderful time literary fangirling at Zadie Smith’s talk in Melbourne last night. Eloquent and real as ever ✨

Hayv Kahraman aka هايف كهرمان (Iraqi-Kurdish, b. 1981, Baghdad, Iraq, based Los Angeles, CA, USA)Female Artists - Self Portrait, 2009, Paintings: Oil on Linen

She was breathtaking. My review here for ArtsHub www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews...

This morning’s listening party of Mitski’s new cat album. Tabby is pondering his review 😉 open.spotify.com/album/2M9F3A...

I know noone cares about ballet, but I wish I were in nyc for this www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/a...

Are we really still asking this question… at least The Guardian was bold enough to put it in the headline www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

From my father’s friend, Burhan. He was also in the Kurdish resistance of 1974 open.substack.com/pub/burhanja...

Every time you say that, Timothée, a fairy dies 💔🧚🏻‍♀️ www.vulture.com/article/timo...

The Kurdish women’s movement declares “Niha Dema Jinan e”—Now Is the Time for Women—to mark International Women’s Day recognising that feminist women’s leadership offers the only viable path through civilisational collapse. turningpointmag.org/2026/03/05/i...

It’s so cold on earth. I wish the dead were alive, I wish the dead would tell us what to do right now. Or maybe, let me rephrase it: I wish we would care about the dead a little more. They teach us about life. ~ Aria Aber 🕊️🤍 open.substack.com/pub/ariamish...

open.spotify.com/track/18GiV1... it’s a good one, for our times 🤍🌹

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Thinking of all my Iranian brothers & sisters 🌹🌹♥️ May you have peace. Women Life Freedom ♥️

"Rebellious Silence". Shirin Neshat (1994). #art #photography #blackandwhite #Irán #islam #mujer

IT'S VITAL TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

Happy Monday 🌸 Emily Dickinson’s complete herbarium of pressed flowers 💐 iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...

And by way of response: Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85

The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati www.divasofverse.com/2026/02/the-...

Saw Wuthering Heights tonight, with whimsical girlfriends 🌾💕 we laughed, we delighted…I cried (final scene will strike a chord with those who have lost someone they love more than anything forever, with no goodbye) It’s an entirely different beast to the book, yet it’s a limbic cinematic trip still

A particularly painful dimension of this essay is that Tatiana’s cousin is Robert F. Kennedy Jr... she depends on the very medical research & treatments he threatens through funding cuts & vaccine skepticism. My mum too was diagnosed with blood cancer last year www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

‘I think that art is companionship . . . it has always made me feel less lonely when I’m alone.’ — Anna Weyant

There's a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I'm about to burst into tears, right before I burst into tears and flee to the slimy moonlit riverbed canopied with devastated clouds. ~ Richard Siken, from ‘Crush’

A funny short I acted in last year, on location in Wellington⛳️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Vx...

Separation Anxiety, 2019 by Kelli Vance www.instagram.com/kelvance

Last week to submit extracts for this conference dance researchers. Submit & we can be buddies in Long Beach in Oct 🩰👙 dasa.memberclicks.net/speculative-...

‘The death of someone loved focuses all one’s attention on the person one has lost – on the past. The progress of one’s life comes to a stop. This is an appropriate reaction to the brutality of death.’ Thomas Nagel on how we live within temporality. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’ve come home from teaching my Pilates clients, trying not to sneeze all day & finally conceding to stay in until I get better.. it will likely mean Valentine’s in bed alone. So if you have a romantic or at least whimsical film please share 🌹

Tender contact is what neoliberal fascism cannot stand. ~ André Lepecki 🤍 contactos.tome.press/movement-in-...