Leigh Hopkins

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Leigh can be reached by email at leighopkins@gmail.com.

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Recovery delivery. 💯 @carmenmmachado @rdenfeld @bigbluemarblebooks @graywolfpress @harpercollinsus
ICYMI: (essay link in profile) Repost from @motherstime.mum using @RepostRegramApp - #TurningPurpleColumn:2nd installment #collaboration for a piece called ‘Blood Feast’ with #writer @leigh.here.now #personal & #political #red #bluewave #grassroots #resist #womenfortrump #americanpolitics #equalrights #watercolor #lemonchiffon #editorialillustration #samanthabee #climatechange #environmentalactivist #politicalmessage #illustration for #TheRumpus @narrativelyillustrated @nlcaputo #resistsubmission #femaleartist @longreads have a scratching stick for this one!
These teensy ticks are called seed ticks, and they’re part of “Blood Feast,” my latest at The Rumpus. Looking at them still makes me feel itchy. Essay linked in profile — spectacular watercolor by Dara Herman Zierlein. #election2019 #climatechange #therumpus
I’m lucky to be teamed up with the talented @motherstime.mum as the artist collaborator for my column. Look at this! “Seed-planting” is a term used by Evangelical Christian churches to describe the process of “expanding Christ’s kingdom through planting churches that plant churches.” It’s part of an end-times commitment to saving souls before The Rapture comes for the true believers, who will “rise in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). For years, my liberal parents would play The Rapture. Dad would go into the kitchen looking for coffee and find my mom’s pajamas and slippers in a pile on the floor. Raptured while baking...” (Link to publications in profile.) #election2019 #climatechange
In my second installment of TURNING PURPLE, I write about my time canvassing in the heartland of Women for Trump country and the roots of my activism. Many thanks to my spectacular editor @marissakorbel and to @marisaemily and The Rumpus for giving my political inquiry a home. “TURNING PURPLE: BLOOD FEAST BY LEIGH HOPKINS November 5th, 2019 My teammate gave a firm knock on the door and stepped off the porch. I kept my eyes on the windows and rehearsed the script, turning the high points over in my head. A car engine downshifted in the street behind us, and when we turned, the driver slowed and pulled into a driveway two houses down. The blinds stayed drawn. After a minute, we returned to the sidewalk and I clicked the response on my app: “Not Home.” Halfway up the next block, a sign reading “HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS” was staked in the ground in front of a plain white ranch house. As we made our way up to the front porch, the first thing I noticed was an old blue bucket filled with cigarette butts, shoved beneath a plastic chair. I looked up, and on the chair’s backrest, a red sticker stared back at me: “THIS IS A TRUMP HOUSE.” My hide rippled beneath my shirt. Six months after the 2016 election, I began volunteering for Turn PA Blue, a grassroots organization that has been working to flip the Pennsylvania State Legislature to a Democratic majority. In the 2016 election, Chester County, Pennsylvania voted 48.8 percent for Trump, 47.6 percent for Clinton. Trump won Pennsylvania by promising coal miners that he would end the war on “beautiful, clean coal.” Pennsylvania decides presidential elections, a battleground state to its core. Research says that the best way to reach undecided voters is by showing up at their doors, so at the beginning of September, I slathered on sunscreen and a fedora and carpooled to our meetup, a shopping center forty minutes from my house in Philadelphia. We drove over rolling green hills past Valley Forge National Park to the heartland of Women for Trump.” #electionday #turningpurple #climatechange #bluewave2020
Repost from @abbeyryan8 (photo by moi): “My family is of Dutch descent, so it was special for me to recently be able to study 17th c. Dutch still life paintings in the Netherlands. People often watch over my shoulder when I'm doing drawing studies of paintings in museums, and in this photo I am doing a study of Clara Peeters' still life at the gorgeous @mauritshuis_museum in The Hague. . . It's interesting that of the over 300 artists in the #mauritshuis collection, only 5 (!) women are represented: Marie-Anne Collot, Judith Leyster, Maria van Oosterwijck, Clara Peeters, and Rachel Ruysch. . (That's 1.6%) . "In June 2012, the Mauritshuis had the opportunity to purchase an exceptional painting by Clara Peeters: Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels from circa 1615. Clara Peeters (c.1580/1590–in or after 1621) is one of the few women painters of the seventeenth century. She was active from 1607 to 1621 and probably came from Antwerp. All of her paintings were still lifes, mainly banquet pieces with simple foodstuffs and valuable tableware." . . "The pewter lid of the earthenware jug shows the reflection of a woman's face with a white cap – a self-portrait." -from the @mauritshuis_museum website. . . more photos and thoughts on my blog. (Subscribe at the link in my bio.) . . . #classicalstilllife #classicalrealism #reverence #stilllife #stilllifepainting #poeticrealism #phillyartist #allaprima @abbeyryan8 #painting #abbeyryan #womenartists @internationalguildofrealism @masonfineart @oilpaintersofamerica @natoilandacrylicsociety @amwomenartists #contemporaryrealism #fineart #artcollector #paintingfromlife #still_life_gallery #beauty #awakening #classicalpainting #oldmasters @realistpaintings #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinsta #artistsofinstagram #thehague #denhaag #mauritshuismuseum #girlwithapearlearring #meisjemetdeparel #chardin
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