One Big Darkroom
Stories of trauma, healing, survival, and finding your way home
I’m Juniper-Quinn. I’ve lived through the dark—and now I’m dragging it into the light.
My Big Darkroom is a space where safety isn’t just a concept—it’s a way of surviving, healing, and reclaiming your life. Out of trauma came truth. Out of silence came stories. That’s how this podcast began. While I can’t share all of the details yet, what I can share is the path forward: the messy, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes heavy journey of rebuilding. It’s the raw stuff: trauma, healing, solo travel, gut instincts, messy love stories, and the grief we don’t post about. We unpack what it means to find safety again, to trust yourself again, to live through truth instead of hiding from it.
You’ll hear my story. You’ll hear others’. And maybe, you’ll hear pieces of your own. This is where the quiet parts of life finally get to speak out loud. If you’re ready to hear them, I’m ready to share.
One Big Darkroom
The Time Warp of Belonging
From ancient Celtic bonfires to the flicker of a midnight movie screen, this episode traces the history of Halloween. Where masks first meant protection, and later, permission.
Juniper-Quinn dives into the roots of Samhain, the birth of costuming, and the way a holiday once built on survival evolved into a celebration of identity and transformation.
But somewhere along the way, freedom got tangled with control. We’ll talk about how society has tried to shape and silence women’s sexuality, and why that control still echoes today.
Then we jump to the ultimate act of rebellion: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. From its strange little theater in London to its cult revival in midnight screenings around the world, Rocky Horror became more than a movie, it became a sanctuary.
Juniper shares her own story of directing and starring in a live shadow-cast production, finding liberation on stage in fishnets and vulnerability, and discovering that performance can heal.
This Halloween, we’re exploring what it means to wear a mask, take it off, and belong... in the dark, in the light, and everywhere in between.
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