SIGNS of breana

SIGNS of breana

di breana

Spiritualità Documentari

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BEING THE DISRUPTER OF UR FAMILY: Dialogue with Yordanose Solomone

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

QUEER grief: YARN from noria café

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?

KIM'S BABY -- ARTIST TALK

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 --

POLY but 4 RELIGION

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

TIME, TRAUMA + TURN TABLES

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

JERKING OFF 4 THE REVOLUTION

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?

SOBRIETY AS A RADICAL ACT

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 life? can eye just b with my feelings?

MY EATING DISORDER TAUGHT ME EYE COULD SAY NO

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

LEARNING 2 LABOR LESS

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 (author of Liberated to the Bone) and Buddhist minister/authorized Lama, Spiritual Abolitionist, and Southern Queen Lama Rod Owens.

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I CAN'T HUSTLE OUTSIDE MY VALUES + I'M NOT UR MAMMY: Dialogue with Lynn Johnson

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: https://kafarimusic.bandcamp.com/music Che Che Luna: https://checheluna.com/ Book Named in this Episode: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture By Sherronda J. Brown

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