leigh [pronounced: lee]
they/she
is an interdisciplinary scholar displaced from russia
as a researcher they have a background in anthropology, literature and digital humanities, and formally: a BA in anthropology from Bard College
they are also a poet(essa) and a translator(ka), working with the enmeshment of languages, translocalities and experimental forms
as a researcher she works with russian queerness and its existence within an authoritarian state whose sexual regime rejects it as non-traditional and other