WELCOME | བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་
Opinionated Tibetan American Storyteller
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Photo by Anna Tsomo Leidecker
I am Lekey Leidecker (she/her/མོ་), a writer dedicated to telling stories of myself and my people.

Read my Medium page here.

Want to work together? Great! Contact me here.

You can learn more about my work here and about me here.

CURRENTLY

Find me:
  • Donating in support of Black lives and organizing, and you should too
  • Revisiting Harry Potter as a Tibetan adult in Harry Potter, Tibet, and Me (The Pomelo)
  • Forthcoming in Cadernos (translated into Brazilian Portuguese) and Femme Literati: Mixtape
  • Shouted out in exciting new confluence of Tibetan theory and praxis Dzi Journal
Writing:
  • Flash essay on mask-wearing
  • And editing my first chapbook - hit me up if you want to publish it!
Reading:

  • Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
  • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, ed. by Nisi Shawl
  • Rendang by Will Harris
  • Lots of Apartment Therapy articles as I prepare for a long, indoor winter