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Waymon Hudson
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Queer. Deaf. Loud.
✍️ Memoirist | 🎭 Musical Creator | 🎶 Musician
Dispatches from the jungle, the page, and the stage.
you’ve ever looked at someone and thought,
“How is this feeling still growing?”

This song is for you. 💛

Your new new #valentinesday anthem…
“More Every Second”

Add on all music platforms:

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#Music #newmusic #lovesong #fyp
February 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Very grateful for friends who see you clearly… and sometimes hand you a little confidence with good lighting.

Turns out reinvention also means letting people capture you as you are- without apologizing for it.

(when your friend casually reminds you they’re a photographer, you say thank you 😉)
February 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
If your marketing needs to be loud, it’s probably not clear.

I wrote a new article on what going #deaf taught me about clarity, leadership, and the future of #marketing.

🧵👇
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Clean slate. Same chaos. Zero regrets. 😇🚿
February 1, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Slowing down didn’t make me lazy.
It made me disobedient.

And that’s when I realized something was very wrong with the rules.

open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...

#Reinvention #Burnout #Essay
Why Reinvention Feels Like Disobedience (and Why That’s the Point)
What happens when you stop following rules that were never designed to keep you alive.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Checking the vibrations for my new single coming next week.

💛 More Every Second, my first love song, drops Feb 6.

(And yes, deaf people can use headphones. Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. 😜)

Listen and Pre-Save Now: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

#music #newmusic #popmusic
January 29, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Closing out the weekend the right way: glasses on, hair messy, grey sweats, drink in hand. 10/10 would recommend.

#fyp #weekend #cocktail #greysweatpants #gay #lgbtq
January 26, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I stopped setting goals when I realized most of them required me to override my body.

Goals chase outcomes.
Conditions protect the environment where the right outcomes can happen.
Boundaries create those conditions.

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#Boundaries #motivation #mentalhealth #goals
Boundaries Aren't Walls. They’re the Infrastructure That Builds a Life That Works
Why “setting goals” never worked... and setting boundaries that protect your life's conditions finally did.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
We’re taught to heal by erasing the pain.
But what if some pain isn’t a flaw...
what if it’s evidence?

I wrote a song called “The Pain Makes It Real.”
It’s about the ache you don’t rush through because without it, the love feels unreal.

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#music #newmusic
The Pain Makes It Real
On heartbreak, memory... and the song I wrote instead of rushing to heal
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January 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I don’t do resolutions.
I do reinvention.

For anyone allergic to January self-improvement theater… this week’s essay is for you.
No glow-ups. No guilt. Just room to become.

🔗 waymonhudson.substack.com/p/i-dont-do-...

#NewYear #newyears #newyearsresolutions #resolutions
I Don’t Do Resolutions. I Do Reinvention.
For anyone allergic to January self-improvement theater... An anti-resolution love letter to the in-between.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Every holiday comes with an unspoken dress code.

Not for your outfit.
For your identity.

Tone it down.
Don’t start anything.
Translate yourself into something easier to digest.

Especially if you’re queer.
Disabled.
Political.
Creative.

open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...
You’re Not Required to Be Palatable for Holidays
We adjust our volume. We sand down our edges. We preemptively apologize for existing. All in the name of “keeping the peace.”
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December 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Your new favorite song for your yearly holiday playlist. ❄️✨
Christmas in the Quiet…out now.
Save it for every December.

🎧 Listen & Add toYour Playlist Now:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/1jjZ4n...

Apple Music: music.apple.com/album/185502...

All Other Platforms: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
December 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I went to La Fortuna thinking it would be a vacation.
Turns out it was a full-body reminder that I’m still alive. 🌿

Here’s what happened:

I said yes to things I absolutely did not feel ready for.

open.substack.com/pub/waymonhu...

#costaRica #PuraVida #travel #traveling #substack
The Yes That Changed Me
What a trip to La Fortuna, Costa Rica taught me about fear, freedom, and the wild parts of myself I thought I’d lost.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When you book a “relaxing” getaway… and it comes with an active volcano in the background. 🌋✨

La Fortuna is chaos and serenity in the same breath… and honestly? Same. 😌🍹
Would you chill in this pool or absolutely NOT??

#CostaRica #LaFortuna #ArenalVolcano #PuraVida #TravelReels #travel #instagay
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Off to enjoy another part of #CostaRica: La Fortuna!

We stayed at Hotel Lomas del Volcán, right at the base of the Arenal Volcano (which is an active volcano… 😳). Amazing so far- beautiful ground, great food and drinks, amazing pool area…

#LaFortuna #arenalvolcano #CostaRicaTravel #travel
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My new holiday single “Christmas in the Quiet” is out today.

A Christmas song for the empty chair, the quiet house, the room that feels colder than it used to. ❄️

Add it on all music platforms: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

#newmusic #holidaymusic #waymonhudson #Christmas #music #ChristmasMusic
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
There are fighters.
There are survivors.
And then there are the watchers...
the queer elders and quiet protectors who carried more than their share
so the rest of us could exist at all.

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#Essay #writing #survivors #LGBTQ #Queer #Gay #LGBTQCommunity
The Quiet Work of Queer Witnesses
A hymn for the quiet ones — the watchers, the carriers, the keepers of queer memory, and the queer kids who learned to read a room before they learned to read a book.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reinvention isn’t always about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it’s about unbecoming the person the world trained you to be.

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#reinvention #essay #Survival #lgbtqia #gay #queerartist #joy #unbecoming #messyreinvention
The Things We Had To Unlearn
Reinvention isn’t just about becoming someone new... it’s sometimes about undoing the person the world trained you to be.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This week’s Substack hit me harder than I expected.

It’s called “The People Who Carried Us”... and it’s about the quiet, powerful figures who helped queer kids survive long before we knew we needed saving.

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#LGBT #Gay #Queer #LGBT #LGBTCommunity #Politics
The People Who Carried Us
Messy Reinvention isn’t a solo act — it’s a lineage.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There’s a cost to being adored.
Sometimes, it leaves bruises.

Broadway has always known this — especially for queer characters.

www.waymonhudson.com/post/queer-b...

#Broadway #musicals #broadwaymusicals #theatre
When Queer Broadway Characters Refuse to Stay Supporting
From La Cage aux Folles to Fun Home to to Speakeasy, these are the moments when queer characters stop apologizing and start taking up space.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The world loves palatable queerness.
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
I've Got Bruises Shaped Like Praise
When the world loves you for what you give, not who you are.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My new dance pop anthem "Talk With Your Hands" — out now.

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
“Talk With Your Hands” — Waymon Hudson’s Dance Pop Anthem About Touch and Connection
Deaf artist Waymon Hudson turns silence into rhythm with Talk With Your Hands — a dance pop track where desire and communication move through touch.
www.waymonhudson.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Everyone posts the *dream* of living in Costa Rica — sunsets, sloths, smoothie bowls. 🌴

But here’s the real story:
www.waymonhudson.com/post/costa-r...

#CostaRica #PuraVida #Expat #DigitalNomad #LGBTQ #Travel
Costa Rica Expat Challenges: The Hard Stuff No One Posts on Instagram
From potholes and power outages to language barriers and missing conveniences, here’s the honest (and hilarious) truth about expat life in Costa Rica — and why it’s still paradise.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM