This episode of SIGNS of breana was recorded live at Chispas Farm in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Susan Raffo as our special guest.

Listen to Susan Raffo and breana in AMONG STRANGERS discuss:

Their love of strangers

Contending with the fear of our beloveds

Listening to our guides

Releasing the colonial binary of friend/enemy

What change is possible when you aren’t known

Gratitude to Jordan Alvarenga for audio/tech support for this magical event!

In this episode of SIGNS of breana, Yordanose Solomone is our special guest. Listen to Yordanose Solomone and breana discuss:

Failure as a metric of living

Failure as freedom

Community-making goes hand-in-hand with failure

Betrayal and Monsters

Storytelling and movies as a first language

The Obsession with Mastery + Black Excellence

Love as the ultimate risk

#blackartist #archivism #storytelling #memorywork #queerartoffailure

In this episode of SIGNS of breana, Nico Nelson is our special guest. Listen to Nico Nelson and breana discuss:

The pain of living

Being bizarre in public

Being a projector

Trying shit and being a kid

Hitting the rockest of bottomest

In this episode of SIGNS of breana, Jaiden Love is our special guest.

Listen to Jaiden Love and breana discuss:

Who is Jaiden Love?

Sexological Bodywork

How did Jaiden become a practioner?

Pleasure and Blackness

What is held in scars

Being a ho for healing

#carework #pleasure #hoforhealing

In this episode breana and Paige discuss:

Grief + Place / Grief and Detroit

Grief as a part of living

Economic Exploitation / Decay

Ritual + Lineage

The Queerness of Church

Public Madness

"It's not your plan that makes it a ritual"

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