I’m Christa Lei, a queer disabled writer, consultant, speaker, community builder & death worker.

I help people to navigate embodiment, grief & survival.

Here’s how I do that:

Writing

Consulting

Speaking

Community Building

Death & Care Work

I also sell workshops.

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Cosmos of Care

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In a new era of business and entrepreneurship means a rebrand and revisioning of who I am and what I’m about.

But I also want to make sure you all know that I dislike this platform and what it represents, but I have the biggest audience here

happy to announce my first publication of 2026.
this one was a doozy—I started drafting this essay after a trip with my comet partner that led to a de-escalation. (we are still friends so it’s all good!) he also knows that I wrote this e

do u guise think this song is about a woman that ruined leonard cohen so gud he had to write about it thru a religious lens???

anyway, its been a season.
content/trigger warning that the fifth slide on this carousel is the cherry (or bra) shaped b

This came out a little later than I anticipated, due to some crazy circumstances, but it’s out now! Check out my interview with @teresesvobodapoet for @epiphanyliterary about her new memoir, Hitler and My Mother in Law. And yes, Svodoba is awar

katabasis (noun) : a descent into the underworld //

in may, I applied for what *seemed* to be an opportunity i couldn’t say no to: a chance to learn from the writer who helped me make sense of my trauma. what could be better? despite lack of i

self portrait of the artist in the liminal, 2025

this one deserves a big, whopping essay. this week I was forced to confront my immense privilege because I am a “full time creative,” which means I have one or a combination of the followi

when I was growing up, my father spent his weekends teaching my brother and me about literature. in addition to our private schooling, he’d dedicate Sundays to extracurricular enrichment and plop open “the core knowledge” series by

this is 33– check the substack for a post mortem of 32.
look, I hate America but I love a lot of its citizens, and I’m sending my love to the ones that hate me and those I dislike purely because they want to see me n people like me UNALI