The Quiet Work of Queer Witnesses A hymn for the quiet ones — the watchers, the carriers, the keepers of queer memory, and the queer kids who learned to read a room before they learned to read a book.

Read the full essay + watch the lyric video:
👉 open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...

And while you’re there:
my holiday single “Christmas in the Quiet” drops Friday.
Teaser + pre-save link inside.

#QueerArt #Broadway #LGBTQ #SpeakeasyTheMusical #MessyReinvention

The Things We Had To Unlearn Reinvention isn’t just about becoming someone new... it’s sometimes about undoing the person the world trained you to be.

✨ Read: The Things We Had to Unlearn: open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...

Reinvention is messy.
But damn, it’s worth it.

#reinvention #queerwriter #expatlife #selfgrowth #messyreinvention

The Things We Had To Unlearn Reinvention isn’t just about becoming someone new... it’s sometimes about undoing the person the world trained you to be.

Reinvention isn’t always about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it’s about unbecoming the person the world trained you to be.

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The Comfort Trap: Why Playing It Safe Nearly Broke Me Growth is uncomfortable. Change is uncomfortable. Hell, being yourself in a world that rewards conformity is uncomfortable. Comfort won’t change your life. Discomfort will.

Comfort feels safe.
That’s the trap.

It keeps you just miserable enough to stay.

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#MessyReinvention #Reinvention #DeafArtist #CreativeJourney #QueerWriter #CostaRica #Burnout

Surviving Isn’t Living. Thriving is the Rebellion Survival keeps you alive. Thriving reminds you why. How I stopped mistaking exhaustion for purpose... and started living again.

We’ve been sold a lie:
That surviving is enough.
That dragging yourself from one crisis to the next counts as strength.

But let’s be honest: survival isn’t living. It’s just a prettier name for barely hanging on.

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#Survivor #surviving #MessyReinvention

What I Really Grieved When I Went Deaf When I went deaf in my 30s, suddenly, violently, and without warning, I thought I was grieving silence. Turns out, I was grieving being seen. The silence I accepted. The stereotypes? Not so much.

In this week’s Messy Reinvention essay, I talk about the grief that comes not from what you lose, but from how the world reacts to it... and how I learned to reclaim my sound, my story, and my power.

🧏‍♂️ Read it here → open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...

#LateDeafened #MessyReinvention #QueerWriter

If you’ve lost sight of the version of yourself that used to laugh louder — you can find them again.
Start messy. Start scared.
Just start. ✨

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The Gospel of Messy Reinvention Sometimes the only way to save your life is to blow it up — imperfectly, dramatically, and with a touch of glitter and attitude.

I hadn’t seen this version of me in years.
The one who wasn’t exhausted or anxious.
The one who laughed easily and slept deeply.

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#Reinvention #Burnout #AntiHustle #MessyReinvention #costarica #Expat

Read it. Share it. Subscribe if you’re tired of dimming your own light.
We’re done shrinking around here. ✨

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