We’re entering Season 2: The Queer Joy Editions, a new chapter filled with laughter, ritual, and queer culture celebrations. While we’ll keep unpacking, we’re also gifting a little more sparkle this time around: holiday stories, drag heat, crafting your own traditions, and queer media nostalgia.

Because though surviving is essential, so is playing, celebrating, and lighting up our own worlds.

We’ve unpacked the pain, now it’s time to unpack the joy

Because queer joy isn’t just ours, it’s collective. 💖

We’re entering Season 2: The Queer Joy Editions, a new chapter filled with laughter, ritual, and queer culture celebrations. While we’ll keep unpacking, we’re also gifting a little more sparkle this time around: holiday stories, drag heat, crafting your own traditions, and queer media nostalgia. ✨

Because though surviving is essential, so is playing, celebrating, and lighting up our own worlds. 🌈💫

🎙 Season 2 intro drops this Tuesday

In this episode, Geri and Caitlin unpack the overlapping realities of queerness, chronic illness, and poverty—and what it means to feel politically and economically abandoned. From healthcare to employment to housing, we explore how systems of survival are often inaccessible or outright harmful for marginalized folks.

This isn’t just about financial precarity—it’s about self-worth, dignity, and how we redefine value when we’ve been told we don’t matter unless we can produce.

Rest isn’t a reward. It’s a right. And yet, so many of us—especially those navigating queerness, chronic illness, or disability—have been conditioned to feel like we need to earn rest through productivity, perfection, or pain. In this episode, Geri and Caitlin unpack the toxic cultural narratives around rest, how capitalism fuels burnout, and how to reclaim rest as an act of self-respect and resistance.

This conversation digs into why it’s so hard to slow down, even when our bodies are begging for it—and how we can begin redefining what rest really means in our lives.

Being queer, POC, chronically, disabled etc. in the world doesn’t just mean navigating your own identity—it often comes with an unseen emotional and mental workload. In this episode, Geri and Caitlin explore the invisible labor of educating others, managing microaggressions, being expected to represent an entire community, and doing all of it with grace.

In this episode of 'Unpacking the Closet', Caitlin and Geri explore the concept of authenticity as a continuous journey rather than a final destination. They discuss the impact of change on identity, the pressures of social expectations, and the role of social media in shaping perceptions of authenticity. Through personal stories and reflections, they emphasize the importance of self-compassion, community support, and the fluidity of identity labels. The conversation highlights the need for individuals to embrace their evolving selves and to allow others the same grace in their journeys.

Let’s talk about what happens when you walk into a doctor’s office and they decide you’re the problem—not your symptoms. In this episode, Geri and Caitlin are joined by feminist therapist and HAES-informed clinician Malea Woods, LMFT, to unpack how fatphobia, racism, ableism, queerphobia, and transphobia shape the care we receive—or don’t.

What happens when you stop performing who you think you’re supposed to be—and start showing up as who you actually are? In this episode, we’re unpacking masking: where it comes from, why we do it, and what it feels like to unlearn it.

Whether you’ve spent your life people-pleasing, code-switching, overachieving, or simply shrinking yourself to stay safe—this one’s for you.

 Coming out is often framed as a single moment—a before and after. But what if identity isn’t a finish line, but a fluid, evolving process? In this episode, Geri and Caitlin explore the experience of coming in to your identity: deepening into yourself, embracing change, and learning to exist in the in-between. We reflect on the pressure to define ourselves, the myth of “queer enough,” and how to find peace in not always having the perfect label.

Coming out is about being seen. Coming in is about seeing yourself.
In Episode 2, Geri dives into identity and how some folks are rejecting the pressure to define, and finding peace in the in-between.