SIGNS of breana

Reflection on capitalism, care, and what a body can hold What does it mean to survive systems that were never built for your wellbeing? In this episode of SIGNS of breana , I reflect on Capitalism Harm Reduction a practice shaped by lived experience from moving through different class realities to following the path I was told would lead somewhere school debt job and finding that the ground on the...

Reflection on integrity, grief, and the traces we leave on each other What does it mean to move through the world with care for how we affect others? In this episode of signs of breana, I reflect on the “campsite rule” leaving people better than you found them and the slow practice of integrity not as perfection but as a muscle built over time through honesty through dignity through choosing to li...

Reflection on friendship, holding, and the spaces in between What does it mean to be in relationship without gripping so tightly that we leave marks? In this episode of SIGNS of breana, I reflect on how friendship has shifted from urgency to discernment from “this is my person” to understanding layers of connection acquaintance comrade friend and the truth that friendship, for me, lives on the oth...

Reflection on visibility, transness, and the body What does it mean to be seen when your body is changing in real time? In this episode of SIGNS of breana, I reflect on applying for Chemistry , a T4T dating show, while navigating acne flare-ups, hormonal shifts, aging, and the ongoing process of becoming – in a trans body. I almost didn’t apply. Because transitioning isn’t comfortable - it is radi...

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 Alvare...

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 #...

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 choos...

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 kno...

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 -- 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...

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 -- // art that connects to disordered eating that has moved breana: EVERYTHING NOW (series on Netflik) 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? // breana mentions the experimental project Relationships Evolving Possibilities out of the Twin Cities, Susan Raffo (aut...

breana + Lynn Johnson sit down and discuss laboring while Black, the role of the Mammy/our divestment, + amazing project Queer Kwanza. -- Interested in participating in Queer Kwanza? Sign up for HDP Newsletter: https://www.highdesertplayback.com/ Also, donate to Lynn's work here: https://newmexicofoundation.givevirtuous.org/donate/high-desert-playback -- Artists Named in this Episode: Kafari: http...

Della offers a death chart reading for breana's Mom RIP Kimberly 10/10/69 - 10/04/14 -- Interested in connecting with Della for a natal or death chart reading? https://readingsbydella.com/

breana + Della sit down and discuss Della's astrology practice what it was like growing up an astrologer's kid before astrology was cool and how Della's Mom began working with death charts -- Interested in connecting with Della for a natal or death chart reading? https://readingsbydella.com/

breana begins with body awareness and then offers invitations to witness hold and put down the grief with what distance might you be able to attend to this grief, today?

breana reflects on the gifts kimberly, their mother, offered in her lifetime: // walking in the legacy of self-authorship // resting in community // receiving + giving generosity

Daisy shares a song + an invitation ~~~