The dude, the myth, the agent of chaotic creation…
Aubrey Rose is a twenty-six-year-old nonbinary, neurodivergent, alternative artist struggling to survive in America- but surely not the only one. Raised in a self-help, toxically positive “it’s all in your head if you get sick” household, they hastened away from adolescence into adulthood, naively trusting that the world would welcome them on a path to their destined success.
Their rose-tinted glasses shattered when their existence and truth proved time and time again to be something they would have to fight for. Their first book, All The Things I Left Unfinished, shares poems from some of their rawest moments of self-discovery- harrowing accounts of parental trauma, heartbreak, and struggles with bipolar II disorder in early adulthood.
Five years, lots of lore, disowning, and some domestic violence later, they continue to scream out loud- still trying to make sense of their life and their place in a society that would prefer they stay quiet or cease to exist. Healing, growing, and humbling are lifelong quests- but Aubrey carries on sharing their story in hopes of reaching others who have been forsaken by a family and a world that they once hoped would make space for them, or at the very least let them be.