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Short About Me

I live in Paris, where I work at a university as a research engineer after completing a PhD in Physics. My professional life belongs to science, but my private obsessions are elsewhere: cinema, literature, fashion, theory, and the strange emotional weather of contemporary culture.

Cinema, Books, and the Intimate Scene

My writing moves through film, literature, philosophy, fashion, and queer sensibility, treating them not as separate fields but as ways of reading the present. A gesture, a face, a room, a line from a film, or a cheap fabric can become the beginning of a larger reflection on taste, poverty, beauty, exclusion, and survival.

Thinking Without Distance

I try to avoid both academic detachment and confessional softness. I think from within experience without turning experience into spectacle. My essays return to figures who are too young, too late, too poor, too exposed, or too out of place — and who, precisely because of that, begin to see the world with uncomfortable clarity.

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February 7, 2024

Disappear, My Russia

Russia is once again learning to see itself through someone else’s eyes — through the eyes of Merezhkovsky’s Vasyuta: “some milk, maybe… but I don’t feel like it”. And that “I don’t feel like it” is enough to describe today’s reaction and the war.
written by
Lesha Travoveda
February 7, 2024

The Privilege of Reversibility

I now see My Own Private Idaho not as a film about beautiful rootlessness, but as a film about the difference between those who have an “afterwards” and those who don’t.
written by
Lesha Travoveda
February 7, 2024

The Somatics of Queer Flaw: How Thought Inevitably Gets Bogged Down in The Body, The Frame, and Biography

Why No Skin Off My Ass matters not only as a film, but as a trace of a queer culture that had not yet become polite, institutional, and safe.
written by
Lesha Travoveda