2025 Year End Recap

As 2025 comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on a year that has been both profoundly beautiful and deeply challenging.

This year was nothing short of transformative. A dream long held finally came to life with the opening of Nexus Body Arts and the birth of the Nexus Body Suspension team. For years, I envisioned a space that would embody care, connection, intention, and liberation—and in 2025, that vision stepped into reality.

I began teaching and hosting classes for Seattle’s leather and kink communities, and expanded those offerings abroad, sharing knowledge, learning in return, and building bridges across oceans and borders. Sacred Debris released another remarkable series of books this year, preserving our history and honoring the legacies that shaped us. I’m beyond grateful to have witnessed and supported some of the incredible education that emerged from SD this year.

Our Nexus Suspension team was honored to represent at BMXnet as part of the mega crew, and to assist at OSC in Toronto—spaces where knowledge flowed freely and the international suspension community came together in strength and solidarity. Those moments reminded me that we are part of something much bigger than ourselves.

But more than anything else, this year gave me time—time to be present with you.

Opening Nexus allowed me to slow down as a piercer, to move with more intention, and to reconnect with what brought me to this work in the first place: people. I’ve had the joy of spending more time with each client, building genuine relationships, and nurturing a space of safety and authenticity. Nexus gave me the flexibility to travel to more events, reconnect with friends and chosen family, and to keep learning and growing alongside this beautiful, complex community.

We’ve collaborated with local artists and organizations, hosted educational events, and built something that feels bigger than a business. If you’ve walked through our doors, taken flight with us, shared a post, sent a kind message, or just quietly rooted for us—please know you’ve been part of this magic. None of it would have happened without you.

And yet… I won’t pretend this year wasn’t also incredibly hard.

Over 3,000 anti-trans measures were introduced in the U.S. this year. That number is staggering. And though Seattle offers some safety, we’ve still received our share of hate: transphobic threats, online harassment, and the quiet weight of fear that never really leaves.

When I created Nexus, it was with full awareness of the risks—and a deeper awareness of the need. A need for more trans-owned businesses. For safer spaces. For unapologetic visibility. For reminders that we exist, that we matter, and that we are not going anywhere.

I stand by every reason I opened these doors, even when those reasons make daily operations harder. I won’t lie: I am scared. I’m scared of what lies ahead for trans people, for small business owners, for disabled folks, for anyone marginalized in today’s political climate. I’m scared of the growing violence, of how loud hate has become, and of how little protection so many of us have.

But fear does not eclipse purpose. It doesn’t dull our joy, or quiet our community’s brilliance and fire. It only makes our work more urgent.

Nexus is, and will always be, a space where body modification is honored as sacred, expressive, and valid in all its forms. Whether you modify for healing, for art, for identity, for reclamation, for pleasure, or for reasons beyond words—you are welcome here. You are seen.

We are proud to be trans-owned and operated. Proud to hold space for the COVID-conscious, for leather and kink communities, for traditional and cultural body modification practices, and for anyone who finds meaning in this work. Our mission is not just to sell you a pretty piece of jewelry—it’s to care, to listen, and to create space for people to be fully themselves.

2025 was a year of growth, grief, joy, and resistance.

As we look to 2026, we move forward with hope—cautious, fierce, and rooted in community. We’ll keep building, keep showing up, and keep holding space for each other in every way we can.

Thank you for your support, your love, your bravery, and your presence. You’ve helped shape Nexus into something powerful, and I’m beyond grateful.

Here’s to peace, to connection, and to continuing the work together.

With love and fire

The Nexus Body Arts Team