SIGNS of breana

Reflection on friendship, holding, and the spaces in betweenWhat 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 shiftedfrom urgency to discernmentfrom “this is my person” to understanding layers of connectionacquaintance comrade friendand the truth that friendship, for me, lives on the other side of rupture through repair through choosing each other againSome relationships burn bright and then burn throughand the grief of that can shake youand still we are never without connectionWhat if friendship is not something we hold but something we practice?Where are you holding tightly? And where are you being invited to soften?#FriendshipAsPractice #SignsOfBreana #QueerCare #RelationalHealing #CommunityCare

Reflection on visibility, transness, and the bodyWhat 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 radical and earth shaking.This is a reflection on transness, aging, and the complexity of living in a body that is both deeply yours and constantly evolving.On gratitude. On discomfort. On being witnessed anyway.What are the conditions you place on your own visibility? And what might happen if you softened them?If this resonates, share your experience in the comments and subscribe for more reflections on becoming, care, and liberation.#TransExperience #SignsOfBrianna #QueerReflection #BodyTransformation #TransJoy #GenderJourney #SelfExpression

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 strangersContending with the fear of our belovedsListening to our guidesReleasing the colonial binary of friend/enemyWhat change is possible when you aren’t knownGratitude 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 livingFailure as freedomCommunity-making goes hand-in-hand with failureBetrayal and MonstersStorytelling and movies as a first languageThe Obsession with Mastery + Black ExcellenceLove 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 livingBeing bizarre in publicBeing a projectorTrying shit and being a kidHitting 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 DetroitGrief as a part of living Economic Exploitation / DecayRitual + LineageThe Queerness of ChurchPublic Madness"It's not your plan that makes it a ritual"

in this episode of breanaRADIObreana shares their wholesome experienceof going to their 1st S3x partybreana speaks on --s3x parties as an excellent conversation startera little help from their friends (+ neighborhood s3x positive health + education focused adult shop)the deep care work of the eventwitnessing as an erotic actwhat breana learned from their experience+would they do it again?

in this episode of breanaRADIOYordanose Solomone is our special guest!listen to Yordi + breana discuss --parents with disabilityschool as a form of escapismhow do we translate ourselves 2 our families of originbelonging as a primal truth that can't be constructedgossiphow privlege, wealth + class aren't synonyms Black immigranthoodthe queer art of failure // FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTIONchoosing yourself+the goal to disappoint 1 person a day

breana speaks to QUEER grieffrom our families of originto our chosenswhat are the layers + levelsof queer grief?acceptance / tolerance / rejectionhow 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 Incubatorbreana shares insight into the writing + rewriting processgrief, mechanisms of care + what they would telltheir past selves in the depths of lossnote 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 livingthis episode speaks to living with disordered eating + loving cis-men both of which eye know can be triggering for some loltake 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 movementan 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 totheir love of substances and commitment to sobriety--a note from breana:GD eye love mezcal, weed + cigarettesthese lovers that eye know long spend time withbut now, eye walk towards clarity// eye walk towards self-knowledgeeye am Black, Trans, + Disabledpeople keep telling me eye'm in dangerthat eye'm gonna die soonso 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 childrenand 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 (author of Liberated to the Bone) and Buddhist minister/authorized Lama, Spiritual Abolitionist, and Southern Queen Lama Rod Owens.

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/musicChe Che Luna: https://checheluna.com/Book Named in this Episode:Refusing Compulsory SexualityA Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed CultureBy Sherronda J. Brown