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

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Consulting

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Speaking

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Community Building

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Death & Care Work

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I also sell workshops.

Embodied Cosmos
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Embodied Cosmos
$44.44 $66.66

Working in collaboration with clients to help them place an image to their chart that they deeply identify with, as a form of collaboration that results in a piece of body art. This talk is about the conversation, the process, and how to center collaboration over performance.

Cosmos of Care
Cosmos of Care
$33.33

Cosmos of Care offers a transformative approach to understanding and designing relationships, no matter what relational style you practice. Created for those exploring or practicing non-monogamy, as well as those curious about non-traditional relationship structures, this presentation dives deep into building intentional and caring connections.

hbd to the ultimate mommy 🥹😘🥺 wow, i’ve watched you grow older alongside me for the last 11 birthdays together. another revolution around the sun. really grateful for you, and that we continue to choose each other amidst everything else. thx
Some of you are new here (after a reading or AWP or just in general, idk maybe you found me intriguing or we accidentally matched on an app and followed each other on social media, only to never actually meet lol) but I thought I’d reintroduce
perpetual cycling between grief and yearning ✨🌙 🫀 i’m trying to be kinder to myself amidst all this forward momentum. here are things I am grateful for, in slide form, from this week of the new moon in pisces and ushering in sharing in the ab
I saw the meme going around and there’s only one of me so I did it too but made it branded and make it a cute picture of me when I was but a weeeeeee babe. But really. THIS is who you’re asking to be productive during a 9-5? Please. We
I hold a heaping portion of fondness for the city of Baltimore, even when it’s overshadowed by the nation’s capital (not even 50 mi away from here.) The last time I was here, I visited my sister in law and only stayed for a few days. Desp
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