Stoking the fire

Giving Tuesday

Apologies for the resend! I was just told that my email-only post this morning wasn’t shareable!

Our time on this planet is fleeting, often messy, yet profoundly beautiful. At Unfixed, we believe storytelling is the hearth where we gather to share our humanity. It’s a space of warmth, connection, and hope—a digital hug for anyone living with adversity (and isn’t that all of us?). If something from Unfixed has moved you, then this work has already succeeded tenfold. Thank you for being part of this growing community and for stoking this fire with your presence.

This Giving Tuesday, I invite you to deepen your support of Unfixed. Share our content with friends, colleagues, and loved ones, or consider making a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor, Social Good Fund. Your support enables us to continue creating projects that bring empathy and awareness to how adversity shapes us into better human beings.

Here’s a glimpse of what your contributions will make possible in 2025:

• Unfixed: Unsung: a short, independent film collaboration with QStack and

  Mr. Troy Ford
  that explores the lives of four LGBTQ+ individuals living with chronic illness or mental health challenges, capturing the humanity and complexity of identity and how it intersects with our health and well-being. 

• Unbound: a dance film collaboration with dramatist Sara Nesson featuring twenty individuals living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or Long COVID. The project will provide people of diverse backgrounds and abilities with the opportunity to tell a story that explores the intersection between limits and freedom—in movement and in life. 

• ICU podcast: a VeDA collaboration that explores the vestibular experience through conversations between patients and the health professionals who care for them.

• Unfixed interviews - interviews with Substack authors and writers that explore unfixed’s meaning and implication in different walks of life—illness, of course, but also relationships, family, aging, socio-economic challenges, career, trauma and climate change.

Funding for 2023 - 2024 helped create the following programming:

• The Unfixed Mind: Navigating Mental Health Today - a four-part miniseries chronicling the real life stories of individuals living with mental health conditions, capturing the humanity and complexity of navigating their diagnosis in today's world.

• Development and publishing of the memoir Liberation of Being, by Dylan Shanahan 

• ICU podcast 

• Creation of my memoir Unfixed - a personal reckoning with a myriad of unknowns that ultimately leads to a surprising kind of healing that embraces a wild and untamable life.

• Unfixed interviews - an audio/visual exploration of unfixed’s meaning and implication in different walks of life—illness, of course, but also relationships, family, aging, socio-economic challenges, trauma and climate change.

• Life Rebalanced Chronicles - Season III

• Monthly MS Confidential episodes

Thank you to all who have brought this work to life since 2019 and continue to shine your bright light in this world. I coudn’t have done it without you.