We left. Then we started writing it down.
Relocation intelligence for queer and BIPOC people building a life abroad — especially those navigating both at once.
Cam and Kionna Redd are a Black queer couple who moved out of the United States and kept a record of what it actually took. Not the highlight reel — the visas, the numbers, the parts nobody warned them about.
Cam & Kionna Redd — founders, Sovereign Sundays
We're not reporting on this life. We're living in it.
Most people writing about moving abroad have never had to ask whether the country they're recommending would treat them the way it treats the person recommending it. We had to ask that first, before anything else.
We did the research on Spain and chose Colombia instead. We lived in Medellín for six months. We've priced out the visas, the healthcare gaps, the rent that's quoted online versus the rent you actually pay. We've been wrong, and we've written about being wrong.
That's the whole premise. Everything here is something we needed and couldn't find — built by two people making the same decision, in public, with the receipts attached.
Four things, one question.
Everything we build answers the same thing: where could you actually belong, and what would it really cost to get there?
The newsletter
Sundays: one specific question answered completely — visas, real cost-of-living numbers, what daily life feels like once you're there. Wednesdays: Kionna's Uncomfortable Truth, an unfiltered account of what leaving actually cost.
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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?
Open the IndexRelocation retreats
Seven days on the ground answering one question: could you actually live here? Four countries in 2027 — Valencia, Tamarindo, Medellín, Phuket — twelve guests each. Not a tour, and not a vacation.
Explore the retreatsBelonging is the question — not safety, not survey rankings built for someone else's body.
The whole move, not the highlight reel — the paperwork and the loneliness get printed too.
We'll tell you when the answer is don't go — even when it costs us the sale.
If it wouldn't help someone we love make this decision, it doesn't make the letter.
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Not advice from a tourist. A record from the ground.
Most advice about living abroad is written for one kind of traveler — someone who can walk into any country and be read correctly, exactly as intended, without a passport photo doing the explaining for them. That's not the only body making this decision.
Sovereign Sundays is for people asking a different question. Not just "is it safe," but "will I belong there" — who gets treated like they're home, and on whose terms. If you're Black, Brown, or queer, and especially if you're both, this is written with you in the room. Not as an afterthought. As the actual audience.
A real look at geoarbitrage, cross-cultural adaptation, and what it actually costs — financially, and otherwise — to build a life across borders. Not the highlight reel. Not the "I quit my job and now I'm free" version. The whole thing: the paperwork, the lonely weeks, and the moments that feel like sunshine you didn't earn yet.
