HeyJaredComing Out Sideways
This is the story of a sweary badass awakening to life, queerness, big/messy feelings, and the divine, as I heal from psychiatric drug withdrawal and a broken heart—as told via crappy poetry, lists, and an unlikely country music obsession 🙃
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gate pass (substack anniversary re-post) (opens the original)
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TW: intro contains a brief mention of scary withdrawal symptoms.👇 Listen to my reading of “gate pass” hereIt was one year ago tonight that I published my first post here on Coming Out Sideways. I think I had been on Substack for a few weeks, and I didn’t totally understand yet how it worked. Honestly, I don’t even remember how or why I settled on Substack as the place where my story would take shape. There’s a lot I don’t remember from last August and September.But apparently, one ye
new moon prayer (opens the original)
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This summer up until now has been… rough. And not what I expected. It feels like so much has happened, and there have been times when I swear I was just barely hanging on by the my sparkly fingernails.But that’s not actually what this post is about.Nope––I want to write about something that happened this morning.I just want to pause here for a moment to welcome the 50 or so folks who have subscribed in the 2.5 months since I published my last post! I’m not sure what exactly has been keeping y’al
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