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For queer and BIPOC people building a life abroad

Everything they don't teach you about actually leaving.

Every Sunday, Sovereign Sundays breaks down real visa pathways, honest cost-of-living numbers, and what daily life actually feels like once you're there — for people navigating both identities at once, who want the honest version rather than the highlight reel.

Free, always. And it opens the door to the Belonging Index, the community, and our relocation retreats.

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Where you're born shouldn't decide where you're allowed to belong.

Sovereign Sundays
What lands in your inbox
M

The Move

Visas, residency tiers, legal pathways, and what to prepare before you file.

A passport
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The Money

Geoarbitrage, income structures, banking abroad, and what the math actually looks like.

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G

The Ground

Safety, belonging, identity, and the friction nobody mentions until you're already there.

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U

The Uncomfortable Truth

Every Wednesday, Kionna writes an unfiltered account of what it really took to leave the U.S. The secrecy, the debt, the job lost over a Teams message, a life packed into two suitcases. What relocation costs when nobody's watching.

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S

The State

Healthcare, infrastructure, governance — can your life functionally operate here.

An aerial view of a city
C

Country Editions

One country at a time, scored across all seven lenses, with real numbers and the honest read.

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The newsletter is the front door.

Subscribing also gets you into the research tool we built, the room where people are working through this together, and the retreats where you go stand in a country before you commit to it.

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The Belonging Index

Twenty-five countries scored across seven lenses — legal, medical, social, family, economic, historical and daily life. Not "is this country safe," but the harder question: will your life work here, and will you belong in it?

  • Compare any two countries side by side
  • Weight the lenses that matter most to you
  • Sourced records with review dates on every country
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Community

The room where it gets real

The people actually doing this — comparing countries, working through visas, and reporting back from the other side of the move.

  • Every template, tool and resource, nothing paywalled
  • Discussion with people at every stage of the move
  • Event invites and retreat discount codes

$9.99/month

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The flagship

Relocation retreats

Seven days on the ground answering one question: could you actually live here? Not a tour, not a vacation. Four countries in 2027, twelve guests each.

  • Valencia · Tamarindo · Medellín · Phuket
  • Four neighborhoods walked with real rent attached
  • Visas, healthcare, and the honest belonging conversation

From $5,000 · $500 deposit reserves your spot

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