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Waymon Hudson

@waymonhudson.bsky.social
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Queer. Deaf. Loud. ✍️ Horror Writer | 🎭 Musical Creator | 🎶 Musician Dispatches from the jungle, the page, and the stage. waymonhudson.com

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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 18h
Nearly a century ago, queer people weren't just visible in America. They were headlining nightclubs, packing ballrooms and becoming stars. A thousand people packed a Chicago queer ballroom on a Sunday night. Then people in power decided that kind of visibility had to stop.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last October LGBTQ History Month, I wrote a love letter to the 1920s Pansy Craze. Queer people packing ballrooms. Drag performers becoming stars. A whole culture being loudly, publicly, gloriously alive. I called that essay a love letter. It was. But it was only half the story.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, apparently I have a studio… It started as a joke because my friends said I was doing so many different things I apparently needed an entire studio. Then I looked around & realized I had queer horror, a memoir, a musical, pop music, feral essays, keynotes, and plans for comics & other IP.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unpopular Opinion: “Don’t take it personally” is fascinating advice from the person who made it personal.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was going to post something about the beautiful moonlit ocean view. Then I looked at the photo. 🎶 Cake by the ocean 🎶 That’s it. That’s the post. 🍰
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Feral Truth: I'm not petty. I simply have an excellent memory and no incentive to be gracious about it. 💅
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
there is an iron gate between two trees on a public trail. no fence. no wall. nothing for it to be a gate to. marcus has seen it before. he's very sure of that. he desperately wants not to be. #horror #scarystories #horrorstories
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve decided that sitting on a beach drinking something cold counts as working on myself. Please don’t ask what I’m working on. I haven’t gotten that far. 😂 #costarica #beachvibes #casualstyle #grwm #beachlife
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was eight, performing Rose's Turn at full volume in my grandmother's kitchen, in a wig from her closet & one of her dresses. She didn’t tell me to quiet down. She threw her head back & hollered “sing out, Louise.” The actual cue. On the beat.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unpopular Opinion: A surprising number of people call it “drama” when the person they hurt refuses to make the aftermath convenient.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy International Day of Sign Languages from a Deaf guy who learned ASL as an adult and discovered, to his horror, that even his eyebrows could have bad grammar. Thankful ASL gave me a bridge into Deaf community & culture. I’m still learning. The eyebrows are doing their best. 🤟😂
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Back home in Costa Rica means back home in the gym. The body survived Dreamforce. The body survived a red-eye. The body even survived the first workout back. The gym mirror, however, appears to have survived a smallpox outbreak. CLEAN IT. 😂
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oliver went looking for Aidan, the ex he’d left months earlier. He found a piece of skin in the weeds. It had his own tattoo on it… But his tattoo was still on his shoulder. He pressed his hand over it just to make sure. Then there was another piece. And another… #horror #scarystories
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The Garden Made of Him
He grew what his mother taught him to grow. He just wanted a version of me that could not leave.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dreamforce: done. Red-eye home: survived. Back in Costa Rica: immediately covered in puppies. Daisy has reviewed my accomplishments from the week and remains unimpressed. Honestly, it’s good to be home. 😂❤️🐶
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A man who had followed my page for years commented on a photo of me, shirtless after surfing: "Showing your body like that makes your mind less credible." I have been shamed for being gay. For being Deaf. For being too big, and then a few years later for being too thin. For being too girly.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
61 floors above San Francisco tonight at the top floor of Saleforce Tower. My last Dreamforce reception after one hell of a week. I keep thinking about the little Deaf queer boy from a small farm town who never could’ve pictured himself here.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just casually wandering around San Francisco before my last Dreamforce event. Did this need to be in black and white? Absolutely not. Did I apparently need to look like I’m about to explain why I left town in 1957 and never spoke of it again? You bet your ass I did. 😂 #grwm #casualstyle
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Presentation: given. Professional obligations: fulfilled. Remaining Dreamforce responsibilities: Look busy. Stand dramatically against buildings with too many buttons undone. Make all photos unnecessarily B&W. The thought leadership has been thought. Today we serve looks. 💅
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not mad that I get to see Gwen Stefani up close and personal! Dreamforce coming through with the fab entertainment AND a great interpreter!
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today I speak at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Which feels slightly surreal to type. I’ve spent a lot of my career in rooms helping other people figure out what to say, how to say it, and how to make people actually give a damn. Today they’re handing this Deaf guy the microphone.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People know me here for the horror stories and rather feral essays. My actual job is running customer communications for a telecom company, and today I'm speaking at Dreamforce about a year of work I'm genuinely proud of. www.linkedin.com/pulse/empath...
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dreamforce Day 1 in San Francisco. Naturally, my first priority was making sure everyone knew I packed a sassy suit. My second priority was apparently wearing as little shirt underneath it as professionally defensible. We’re off to a strong start. 😂 Tomorrow, I’m speaking.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Her wife has been grieving her to her face since March. She didn’t notice. She was too busy being happy. She was sleeping. Laughing again. Becoming the lawyer she had spent nineteen years trying to be. Her wife noticed something else… #Horrror #scarystories
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The Person Who Knew When I Wasn’t There
She can tell me the week. She wrote it down. She has been grieving me to my face since March and I did not notice, because I have never been happier.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In San Francisco. Speaking at Salesforce Dreamforce. 75,000 attendees. I could never have imagined a Deaf guy would end up arguing marketing strategy in front of a room this size. #dreamforce #salesforce #marketing #professional #publicspeaking
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“You can’t wear white after Labor Day.” *slowly removes sunglasses* Girl. I live in Costa Rica. Your little seasonal rules have no jurisdiction here. Also the shirt is slightly see-through, so obviously I’m wearing it. 😂 #CostaRica #GRWM #WhiteAfterLaborDay
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I remember very little of what people said when I went deaf. I remember exactly who stayed. One person did it quietly. Another signed himself and two other people in.our lives up for ASL because my new language was not going to be a solo project.
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Who Was Still There
Two people stayed. Neither of them tried to fix anything.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Why aren't you wearing your hearing aids?" Because you're loud. Going from silence to sound isn't a volume knob. It's every notification in my brain firing at once. I get noise, not words. Helpful for knowing somebody is talking. Useless for knowing what they said.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Someone described me as "an acquired taste" and honestly? I now want that on my letterhead.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s after Labor Day, the summer is ending, so unfortunately I have been returned to the gym. 😭 The good news: the squats have apparently been squatting. The bad news: I now have to continue doing them. Tragic, really. 🍑😂
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Never mind.” Two words said to a Deaf person, meaning: saying it again isn’t worth the trouble of you understanding it. People say it to me constantly and think they’re being polite.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My Southern family had approximately 900 ways to say “gay” without ever saying gay. Honestly, the commitment to vocabulary was impressive. I made the dictionary for you. 👉 Every Word They Used Instead on Messy Reinvention (And yes, that is little blonde gay me in the picture)
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Every Word They Used Instead
A field guide to the vocabulary my family built so they would never have to say the actual word.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He has never lied to a client about their body. That may be the problem. Danny Reyes has been a personal trainer for eleven years. Ten times, he noticed a client was improving and told them the truth: You look better. 🩸 The Personal Trainer · Entry 03, the Silent Horrors Archive #horror #comics
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The Personal Trainer
I have been telling people they look better for eleven years. Somebody finally came and asked me for the list.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
People say "you're so brave" to disabled people all the time. Babe, we're just living. It's literally just our life.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Someone called me “a lot” like it was a diagnosis and honestly? Correct. Terminal. No notes.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A brief list of things you don’t need to tell me before inviting me on your boat: - where we’re going - how long we’ll be gone - who else is coming - what the plan is You said boat. I said yes. Happy Labor Day weekend. 😂🚤
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Several people I have worked with for years found out I am Deaf in the comments of an essay I wrote. About being Deaf. They were not unobservant. I had simply gotten very, very good at making sure nobody ever had to notice the work.
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They Know About the Dogs
They found out in the comments of my own essay about being Deaf.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A delivery worker starts noticing that some customers have stopped being tired. Not happier. Not kinder. Just... unburdened. And the worker is so, so tired. The orders those customers place are raw meat, protein powder, and bandages… 🩸The Bags Were Warm, Silent Horrors #horror #comicbook #comic
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The Bags Were Warm
The meat was cold. The bag was not. I carried both anyway
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very raw post-workout shot from today, which sounds impressively athletic until I explain that it was approximately one million degrees with 900% humidity. That is not a healthy post-gym glow you’re looking at. I am fully marinated. Costa Rica remains committed to cooking me slowly. 😂
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the worst. Dolly Parton spanned genres and generations with her talent and storytelling. I’m thankful for the work she leaves behind, both in music and in her amazing philanthropy. Thank you, Dolly. We will always love you. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/25/e...
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Dolly Parton, queen of country music and humanitarian hero, dead at 80 | CNN
Dolly Parton, who rose from humble beginnings to the greatest heights of American music and became one of the country’s most philanthropic, unifying and beloved stars, has died. She was 80.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just a casual dinner. And yes, I own shirts with sleeves. I simply don’t see why that’s relevant. 🤷‍♂️
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey #ComicBook bluesky! I’m looking for queer comic artists for a paid literary horror project. Feel free to reach out (or send my info) to anyone you may know! 🙌
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just a completely normal fitness photo taken from this very necessary and scientifically relevant angle... 🍑 #fitness #workingout
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tonight, Sun Aug 9th 8pm ET, I read from the Silent Horrors Archive out loud for the first time. Two files. In the first, a man who reads people for a living meets a client who reads him back perfectly. He knows exactly what is wrong with the man. He books him again.
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LIVE SOON: The Silent Horror Archives Open with Waymon Hudson
Starting Aug 9 at 8:00 PM EDT
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
He can make anyone feel seen. Something learned to do it back to him perfectly. The only one who isn’t fooled is the dog. New Silent Horrors entry, free to read. open.substack.com/pub/silentho... #horror #scarystories #lgbtq
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This photo is giving “ethereal woodland fairy.” Reality: I was just chasing good lighting like a raccoon digging through trash. #instagay #fyp #photoshoot #flowers #gaystagram
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A nurse counts the breaths of an unconscious man. Twelve a minute. She checks the man in the next bed, because he is breathing at exactly the same rate, on exactly the same beat. Then the one after him. By the end she stops writing the number down, because the whole ward is breathing as one.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
there’s 13 seconds of this song i almost cut entirely. i’m deaf, went deaf at 35, and my own voice is the one instrument i can’t fully hear. so obviously that’s the part i decided to put front and center with nothing else in the room but piano and acoustic guitar… #music #newmusic #acoustic
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Read My Lips (Acoustic Version) - Single by Waymon Hudson | Spotify
Waymon Hudson · single · 2026 · 1 songs
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A community forum. A late-night post from someone who’s been writing around this for three months. The question: Has Anyone Else Seen the Men Who Don’t Blink? Has anyone else noticed the men who came back better? Not worse. *Better.* open.substack.com/pub/silentho... #horror #scary #scarystory
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Has Anyone Else Seen the Men Who Don’t Blink?
I locked the thread at 2:17 a.m. The last comment posted anyway.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For Disability Pride Month, I want to talk about helping. A gate agent once offered me the unaccompanied minor service. I am going to let that sit here. The unaccompanied minor service is for kids. I am a full-grown adult man with a job, a mortgage, opinions about wine, & a skincare routine.
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Waymon Hudson @waymonhudson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Continuing my annual tradition of posting the gayest photos I’ve ever taken… At this point, I feel like we’ve moved beyond allegations and into documented evidence. Happy Pride, y’all. 🌈
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