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Lesha Travoveda
An essay project exploring the fragile border between the personal and the political. Through film, literature, class, shame, and queer experience, the writing examines how contemporary life shapes desire, vulnerability, and the feeling of being out of place.
May 26, 2026
Watching Won’t Wash You Clean
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag writes about the distance of the spectator. Today, that distance becomes a Russian question: can one look at Ukrainian pain and still remain a bystander?
May 5, 2026
Late Youth as a Political Condition: On Didier Eribon, Unfinished Adulthood, and the Life One Never Quite Manages to Enter Fully
In Return to Reims, Eribon writes about an adulthood that does not arrive with success. One can acquire language, status, and a name, and still continue assembling oneself out of shame, rupture, and other people’s expectations.
April 29, 2026
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.
April 26, 2026
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.
April 24, 2026
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.
April 24, 2026
A Manual for Disappearing
The Masturbator’s Heart speaks of death calmly, almost matter-of-factly, as something simply pencilled into the schedule.
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