in this episode of breanaRADIO

breana shares their wholesome experience

of going to their 1st S3x party

breana speaks on --

s3x parties as an excellent conversation starter

a little help from their friends

(+ neighborhood s3x positive health + education focused adult shop)

the deep care work of the event

witnessing as an erotic act

what breana learned from their experience

+would they do it again?

in this episode of breanaRADIO

Yordanose Solomone is our special guest!

listen to Yordi + breana discuss --

parents with disability

school as a form of escapism

how do we translate ourselves 2 our families of origin

belonging as a primal truth that can't be constructed

gossip

how privlege, wealth + class aren't synonyms

Black immigranthood

the queer art of failure // FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION

choosing yourself

+the goal to disappoint 1 person a day

breana speaks to QUEER grief

from our families of origin

to our chosens

what are the layers + levels

of queer grief?

acceptance / tolerance / rejection

how do we have a soft belly + a strong back?

how do we not identify with the wound?

join dramaturg, Tatiana Isabel Gil and writer, breana

in a discussion about breana's 2025 residency

with New Worlds Incubator

breana shares insight into the writing + rewriting process

grief, mechanisms of care + what they would tell

their past selves in the depths of loss

note audio is from a live event + some moments might be challenging to hear --

in this episode breana speaks to being poly but in terms of religious and spiritual practices --

they speak to embodiment practices, listening to baptist sermons to connect to their ancestors, finding mindfulness + buddhist practices that work for them and finding rituals that offer them a life worth living

this episode speaks to living with disordered eating + loving cis-men both of which eye know can be triggering for some lol

take care of yourself <3

in this episode breana speaks to reimagining their relationship 2 time and record players as keepers of time --

they speak to records that skip + relationships that get stuck in a cycle they cannot release + the same few notes playing over + over + over again

in this episode breana speaks to their pleasure practices, sitting with pleasure in harmony with being with their fear, the concept of self-safety as a baseline + twerk as grief movement

an invitation:

what are your pleasure practices?

how do you move energy through your body?

what do you enjoy in the sheets? and require in the streets?

in this episode breana speaks to

their love of substances and commitment to sobriety

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a note from breana:

GD eye love mezcal, weed + cigarettes

these lovers that eye know long spend time with

but now, eye walk towards clarity

// eye walk towards self-knowledge

eye am Black, Trans, + Disabled

people keep telling me eye'm in danger

that eye'm gonna die soon

so like -- how will eye spend this short life?

can eye just b with my feelings?

breana talks disordered eating, transness, secret keeping and the right to say no.

their goal for 2025 is to build their relationships to their guides + inner children

and little breana wants to be fed well --

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art that connects to disordered eating that has moved breana:

1. EVERYTHING NOW (series on Netflik)
2. YOLK, novel by Mary HK Choi

breana talks labor, picking your battles, that's still too many battles --

where do we labor consentually or without consent?

how do we find balance in how we labor for a dollar, for our beloveds, for ourselves?

what is the power of being inconvenienced for the humans we adore?

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breana mentions the experimental project Relationships Evolving Possibilities out of the Twin Cities, Susan Raffo (author of Liberated to the Bone) and Buddhist minister/authorized Lama, Spiritual Abolitionist, and Southern Queen Lama Rod Owens.