What to Do When Community Lets You Down
Community can be healing, and it can also disappoint you. This post offers trauma-aware ways to recover from rupture, set boundaries, and stay open to belonging.
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The Last Club Kid: A Conversation with Mark “Ghost” Stevens
In this Queer and Unbroken Figments interview, Mark “Ghost” Stevens reflects on the Club Kid scene, identity, and the lived experience behind The Last Club Kid. From Houston to South Beach, his story holds space for creativity, loss, and what it meant to become fully himself in a world without permission.
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Making Friends as an Adult When You Grew Up Guarded
Making adult friends is hard enough. When trust has been broken before, it can feel impossible. This post offers gentle, trauma-informed ways to meet people slowly, build safety over time, and create friendships that don’t require you to rush, overshare, or pretend you’re fine.
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What It Means to Be Drawn Toward Service
Being drawn toward service is not about visibility, sacrifice, or proving worth. It is about community care, boundaries, and choosing how to contribute in ways that are honest and sustainable. This reflection explores how service begins quietly, grows through trust, and remains grounded when it is rooted in alignment rather than performance.
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Sometimes Love Just Isn’t Enough
Sometimes love is present but acceptance is not. This reflection explores queer grief, conditional love in family relationships, and the emotional cost of being partially accepted, while affirming the right to choose wholeness and surround yourself with people who love you exactly as you are.
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Finding LGBTQIA+ Community Where You Are
Finding LGBTQIA+ community can take time, courage, and patience. Drawing from my own experiences of starting over and building connection, this article offers encouragement and practical ways to find or create community wherever you are.
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New Year Who Dis? Ghosting Bad Habits from 2025
2025 was loud, exhausting, and heavy for a lot of people. As we step into 2026, this is a moment to let go, reclaim our energy, and remember that change is possible when we choose hope, community, and action. Even if we are a little singed, we can still rise together queer and unbroken.
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Behind the Blog: Sitting With 2025
2025 did not land as one clear story. It arrived in fragments. Some heavy. Some tender. Some still unresolved. This reflection sits with what queer and trans communities carried through the year, honoring exhaustion, care, grief, and the quiet ways people kept going.
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Queer 2025 in Review: What We Survived, What We Built
2025 was heavy for queer and trans communities. This year in review reflects on what we survived, what we built together, and what we carry forward into 2026.
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Behind the Blog: Small Queer Rituals for Long, Dark Nights
This Behind the Blog reflection shares how a recent Yule celebration in Orlando shaped the writing of Small Queer Rituals for Long, Dark Nights, and why the piece was intentionally kept gentle and brief for the holiday season.
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Small Queer Rituals for Long, Dark Nights
Long winter nights can feel especially heavy for queer and trans people. This gentle guide offers simple, low-barrier queer rituals for comfort, grounding, and survival when you are alone, tired, or healing.
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🔒Behind the Blog: Queer Belonging When “Home” Hasn’t Been Safe
This Behind the Blog reflection shares why I wrote Queer Belonging When “Home” Hasn’t Been Safe, the care it took to write it, and what I hope readers carry with them during a season that can make family pain feel heavier. This space is an invitation to pause, reflect, and remember that belonging can be built on your own terms.
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Queer Belonging When “Home” Hasn’t Been Safe
For many queer and trans people, home has not always been a place of safety or belonging. Especially around the holidays, family expectations can deepen feelings of grief, anger, and isolation. This essay explores what queer belonging can look like when home isn’t safe, including chosen family, community care, and small ways to build a sense of home on your own terms.
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A First-Year Reflection: What We Built, What We Learned, and Where We’re Headed
Queer and Unbroken launched in the end of September, but the work behind it began long before that. This end-of-year reflection looks at what we built in just a few months, the early signals that matter most, and how intentional, values-led growth is shaping what comes next in 2026.
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🔒Behind the Blog: Why I Chose These Five LGBTQIA+ Fights for 2026
A behind the scenes reflection on how I chose the five LGBTQIA+ fights to watch in 2026, what I left out, and how I stay grounded while writing about policy in an overwhelming news cycle.
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