Messy Reinvention

About the Substack

Reinvention is not self-improvement. It is disobedience. Essays on queerness, deafness, and refusing to make yourself smaller so a room stays comfortable.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Weekly essays, free and ungated. The free side is most of the writing, and it stays free, permanently.

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Two-Martini Talks: the deeper companion essays where some of my best writing lives.
  • The petty version: the same argument with the knife out
  • Cut files, memoir deleted scenes, drafts that never shipped, subscriber threads, and Q&As

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $5 a month
  • $50 a year

About Waymon Hudson

Deaf, queer storyteller who makes everything to be felt. Writer of dark literary horror in Silent Horrors, feral essays about rebuilding in Messy Reinvention, plus songs, a memoir, and a jazz musical about the Pansy Craze. Defiance, not inspiration.

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