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Lekey Leidecker
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Feb 1

A Tibetan Response to “Confronting the Dalai Lama”, January 2023

There seems to be a trend of people trying to “gotcha” His Holiness the Dalai Lama for their own political careers- see the “Dalai Lama is a sexist” fiasco of 2019, which was beautifully nuanced by my friend here: https://medium.com/@paldron/an-opportunity-to-reflect-the-dalai-lama-and-the-world-d9dddfb5b0a Ronan Harrington’s most recent Instagram reel with the headline “Confronting…

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Nov 19, 2021

Some Tibetan Thoughts and Feelings on Tibet x Decolonial Atlas

You can find the takeover through Mingyur la’s website here. When my friend Dr. Tenzin Mingyur Paldron let me know he would be putting together a Tibet-themed takeover of the Instagram page Decolonial Atlas, I was excited, and a little nervous for the ways that various people from within our…

Tibet

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Tibet

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Apr 21, 2021

Review: Yakpo Collective Transcends Boundaries, Creates New Possibilities in Virtual Exhibition

Review: Yakpo Collective Transcends Boundaries, Creates New Possibilities in Virtual Exhibition Note: I do not consider myself an artist and not even particularly visually oriented, and so I apologize in advance to the artists discussed within this piece if I do not do your work justice. I would love to…

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Review: Yakpo Collective Transcends Boundaries, Creates New Possibilities in Virtual Exhibition
Review: Yakpo Collective Transcends Boundaries, Creates New Possibilities in Virtual Exhibition

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Feb 6, 2021

✨🐂⚙️ ལོ་གསར་སྙན་ངག། LOSAR POETRY⚙️🐂✨| Feb 13 2021

The past year has felt like many. You are invited to join Easy Tibetan, Lekey Leidecker, and friends for a multilingual Losar celebration of poetry on Zoom to bring in the year of the Iron Ox, 2148 with good energy. Saturday, Feb 13 at 4pm BST/11am EST/8am PST. …

Tibetan New Year

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✨🐂⚙️ ལོ་གསར་སྙན་ངག། LOSAR POETRY⚙️🐂✨| Feb 13 2021
✨🐂⚙️ ལོ་གསར་སྙན་ངག། LOSAR POETRY⚙️🐂✨| Feb 13 2021
Tibetan New Year

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May 29, 2020

Flat Yoga: An Illustrated Essay

Note: This essay was originally published in April 2020 by Z. Ahmed (@mirrorgrl on Instagram), curator of quarantine art series Homebodies and reposted with permission. The call for submissions is still open! ALSO: This is my first time trying to include alternate text on images, which is to increase accessibility. I would appreciate feedback. Name: Lekey Leidecker Hometown: Berea, KY factually; New York City spiritually Home during COVID-19: North London, UK Preferred Creative Medium: Words Favorite Yoga Pose: Viparita Virabhadrasana (reverse warrior) Best British Phrase: “You f*ckin’ what?!”

Yoga

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Flat Yoga: An Illustrated Essay
Flat Yoga: An Illustrated Essay
Yoga

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Mar 7, 2020

Dear R: Notes on Impostor Syndrome

Note: This letter was inspired by a question I received after the High Peaks Pure Earth Tibetan women poets Instagram takeover series, where I talked about writing from my experiences and how impostor syndrome can silence us. I credit Food 4 Thot podcast for their “We Don’t Belong” episode featuring…

Writing Tips

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Dear R: Notes on Impostor Syndrome
Dear R: Notes on Impostor Syndrome
Writing Tips

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Mar 5, 2020

Announcing Machik Khabda in London | Saturday, March 14th

Hello! Are you a/do you care about/do you have some weird vested interest in having an opinion about Tibetan women? Do you live in or near London? Join us to find out how Tibetan women have been shifting paradigms and changing the world at the first-ever London Machik Khabda…

Tibet

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Announcing Machik Khabda in London | Saturday, March 14th
Announcing Machik Khabda in London | Saturday, March 14th
Tibet

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Feb 14, 2020

Tibetan Loneliness

I became a writer because of loneliness. A protracted feeling that I did not ‘fit’ in my surroundings began a lifelong habit of recording my innermost thoughts, as if to hear them reflected back to me, to create an archive of myself where there previously was none. It became a…

Tibet

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Tibetan Loneliness
Tibetan Loneliness
Tibet

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Jan 30, 2020

Making a Tibetan Home

Relocation is a nightmare for the change-averse. It is overwhelming, unsettling, a recipe for decision fatigue. Since moving to London, I have nearly burst into tears several times at the indecipherable symbols on the washing machine, or after realizing I failed to switch on the rice cooker in time for…

Tibet

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Making a Tibetan Home
Making a Tibetan Home
Tibet

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Jan 29, 2020

ANU on Instagram Live

The story appeared on my Instagram feed. I clicked the familiar name Anu Ranglug (also known as ANU). From my basement apartment in Washington DC, I watched, transfixed, ANU’s brilliant Tibetan and Chinese language performance of OneRepublic’s “Apologize.” Suddenly, the tempo slowed and a bell chimed. The triumphant cry of…

Tibet

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ANU on Instagram Live
ANU on Instagram Live
Tibet

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Lekey Leidecker

Lekey Leidecker

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Opinionated Tibetan American storyteller www.lekeyleidecker.com

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