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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.
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.
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.
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.
February 7, 2024
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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