✍️ Memoirist | 🎭 Musical Creator | 📣 Marketing Futurist
Dispatches from the jungle, the page, and the stage.
Sometimes, it leaves bruises.
Broadway has always known this — especially for queer characters.
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#Broadway #musicals #broadwaymusicals #theatre
Sometimes, it leaves bruises.
Broadway has always known this — especially for queer characters.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/queer-b...
#Broadway #musicals #broadwaymusicals #theatre
Be funny. Be fierce. Be fabulous.
But don’t be angry. Don’t be political. Don’t be too much.
🧵 A thread about performative acceptance & conditional love.
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#lgbt #LGBTQ #queer #gay #politics #culture
It’s loud. Flirty. And the most fun I’ve ever had writing a song.
But it’s also about something deeper: how I connect with the world as a deaf artist.
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#music #Newmusic #newmusicfriday #pop #dancemusic
It’s loud. Flirty. And the most fun I’ve ever had writing a song.
But it’s also about something deeper: how I connect with the world as a deaf artist.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/dance-p...
#music #Newmusic #newmusicfriday #pop #dancemusic
But here’s the real story:
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#CostaRica #PuraVida #Expat #DigitalNomad #LGBTQ #Travel
But here’s the real story:
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#CostaRica #PuraVida #Expat #DigitalNomad #LGBTQ #Travel
That’s the trap.
It keeps you just miserable enough to stay.
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#MessyReinvention #Reinvention #DeafArtist #CreativeJourney #QueerWriter #CostaRica #Burnout
That’s the trap.
It keeps you just miserable enough to stay.
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#MessyReinvention #Reinvention #DeafArtist #CreativeJourney #QueerWriter #CostaRica #Burnout
This week’s #BehindBroadway dives into love that refuses to hide.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/queer-b...
This week’s #BehindBroadway dives into love that refuses to hide.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/queer-b...
That surviving is enough.
That dragging yourself from one crisis to the next counts as strength.
But let’s be honest: survival isn’t living. It’s just a prettier name for barely hanging on.
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#Survivor #surviving #MessyReinvention
That surviving is enough.
That dragging yourself from one crisis to the next counts as strength.
But let’s be honest: survival isn’t living. It’s just a prettier name for barely hanging on.
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#Survivor #surviving #MessyReinvention
Turns out, I was grieving being seen.
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#Deaf #deafcommunity #disability #disabilitytwitter #Inclusion #InclusionMatters
Turns out, I was grieving being seen.
P
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#Deaf #deafcommunity #disability #disabilitytwitter #Inclusion #InclusionMatters
In the 1920s & 30s, queer performers ruled nightlife. They called it The Pansy Craze.
Before Stonewall. Before Pride parades. Before RuPaul told us to sashay away.
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#LGBTQHistoryMonth #LGBT #Queer #History #Pride
In the 1920s & 30s, queer performers ruled nightlife. They called it The Pansy Craze.
Before Stonewall. Before Pride parades. Before RuPaul told us to sashay away.
open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...
#LGBTQHistoryMonth #LGBT #Queer #History #Pride
When I started my Substack, I called it "Notes from the Jungle." It fit — I’d just moved to Costa Rica, burned out, broken, and desperate to start fresh.
But the more I wrote, the more I realized… this wasn’t really about the jungle.
When I started my Substack, I called it "Notes from the Jungle." It fit — I’d just moved to Costa Rica, burned out, broken, and desperate to start fresh.
But the more I wrote, the more I realized… this wasn’t really about the jungle.
The one who wasn’t exhausted or anxious.
The one who laughed easily and slept deeply.
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#Reinvention #Burnout #AntiHustle #MessyReinvention #costarica #Expat
The one who wasn’t exhausted or anxious.
The one who laughed easily and slept deeply.
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#Reinvention #Burnout #AntiHustle #MessyReinvention #costarica #Expat
Broadway’s Queer Emcees & the Power of Invitation.
From Cabaret’s Emcee to Speakeasy’s Merc, these characters don’t just open the show — they open the door.
They turn performance into protest, and joy into survival.
Full post www.waymonhudson.com/post/broadwa...
Broadway’s Queer Emcees & the Power of Invitation.
From Cabaret’s Emcee to Speakeasy’s Merc, these characters don’t just open the show — they open the door.
They turn performance into protest, and joy into survival.
Full post www.waymonhudson.com/post/broadwa...
Make it palatable.
Find a smaller version of ourselves that doesn’t make anyone too uncomfortable.
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#Joy #LGBT #QueerJoy #WritingCommunity #writing #reinvention
Make it palatable.
Find a smaller version of ourselves that doesn’t make anyone too uncomfortable.
open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...
#Joy #LGBT #QueerJoy #WritingCommunity #writing #reinvention
Kindness doesn’t mean compliance.
Community doesn’t mean compromise.
💌 New Substack: Finding Your People When the World’s on Fire.
Because connection isn’t weakness — It’s how #resistance is born.
waymonhudson.substack.com/p/finding-yo...
Kindness doesn’t mean compliance.
Community doesn’t mean compromise.
💌 New Substack: Finding Your People When the World’s on Fire.
Because connection isn’t weakness — It’s how #resistance is born.
waymonhudson.substack.com/p/finding-yo...
That moment when tenderness meets rage — and something inside snaps.
🧵 A thread on Broadway’s confrontation songs — and why they wreck us (ft. Last Call from Speakeasy).
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#Musicals #MusicalTheatre #Music #theater
That moment when tenderness meets rage — and something inside snaps.
🧵 A thread on Broadway’s confrontation songs — and why they wreck us (ft. Last Call from Speakeasy).
www.waymonhudson.com/post/broadwa...
#Musicals #MusicalTheatre #Music #theater
Feelings were something you hid.
And if you were a boy — especially a different kind of boy — you learned fast to smile through it.
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#broadway #musical #musicaltheatre #music
Feelings were something you hid.
And if you were a boy — especially a different kind of boy — you learned fast to smile through it.
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#broadway #musical #musicaltheatre #music
The quietest goodbye I’ve ever written.
The moment you realize love shouldn’t make you disappear.
🎧 Stream it here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
#Music #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #NewMusicAlert #NewMusic2025 #popmusic #Deaf
The quietest goodbye I’ve ever written.
The moment you realize love shouldn’t make you disappear.
🎧 Stream it here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
#Music #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #NewMusicAlert #NewMusic2025 #popmusic #Deaf
It’s not just “different.” It’s life-changing.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/culture...
#PuraVida #Expats #Travel #travelblogger
It’s not just “different.” It’s life-changing.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/culture...
#PuraVida #Expats #Travel #travelblogger
But this song isn’t about slammed doors or dramatic finales.
It’s about the quiet goodbye — the kind where you realize you’re shrinking to be loved.
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#NewMusic #Music #Pop #Ballad #Musica
Before I Go drops Oct 10 — but paid subscribers just got the exclusive first listen today.
It’s raw. Quiet. A love song about finally choosing yourself.
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#NewMusicFriday
Before I Go drops Oct 10 — but paid subscribers just got the exclusive first listen today.
It’s raw. Quiet. A love song about finally choosing yourself.
💌 Upgrade to hear it early + get future music drops before the world does: open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...
#NewMusicFriday
It’s this: “Can I bring my dog?” 🐾
Answer: Yes.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/pets-in...
#CostaRica #ExpatLife #RescueDogs #AdoptDontShop #Expat #puraVida #traveltips #travelblogger #LGBTQ #Gay
It’s this: “Can I bring my dog?” 🐾
Answer: Yes.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/pets-in...
#CostaRica #ExpatLife #RescueDogs #AdoptDontShop #Expat #puraVida #traveltips #travelblogger #LGBTQ #Gay
Some of its most gut-punching songs wrestle with something darker: toxic masculinity.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/when-br...
#BehindBroadway #MusicalTheatre #musicals #Broadwaymusicals
Some of its most gut-punching songs wrestle with something darker: toxic masculinity.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/when-br...
#BehindBroadway #MusicalTheatre #musicals #Broadwaymusicals
I’ll be on a panel about moving to Costa Rica + building #queer community here.
📩 Tickets/info: [email protected] or ccdcr.org/trade-mission-lgtbqcostarica
Come join us! 🌈✨ #LGBTQ
I’ll be on a panel about moving to Costa Rica + building #queer community here.
📩 Tickets/info: [email protected] or ccdcr.org/trade-mission-lgtbqcostarica
Come join us! 🌈✨ #LGBTQ
But if you move here, you’re not just an “expat.” You’re a guest here. And how you show up matters.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/be-a-go...
But if you move here, you’re not just an “expat.” You’re a guest here. And how you show up matters.
www.waymonhudson.com/post/be-a-go...