Episode 8 Building Village: Parenting, Divorce, and Singing Together
In this episode, Xander lays down with Lyric for a conversation about friendship, interdependence, chosen family, and the ways we nourish each other when neither of us feels like we have much left to give. What begins as a reflection on song and mutual support unfolds into a deeper exploration of community, divorce, parenting, grief, and the magic that emerges when people allow themselves to be held.
Together, they explore:
friendship as a sacred form of love
community support during divorce and major life transitions
parenting within a village of support
ritual, magic, and raising children in community
grief as a doorway to connection and transformation
song as medicine, prayer, and collective healing
learning to ask for what we truly need
being seen, held, and transformed through relationship
This is a conversation about what becomes possible when care is not transactional, when friendship is allowed to be as sacred as any other form of love, and when people trust each other enough to bring their whole selves into the web. Together, Xander and Lyric explore how pain and pleasure, grief and joy, independence and interdependence are not opposites, but threads woven into the same song.
Stay tender. Stay tangled. Stay held together.
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And on TikTok @queercripmagic and linked here.
Read their writing on Substack at xanderpeerkeller.substack.com/ linked here.
Visit their website at disabilitycreativity.com linked here.
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