WE’RE GLAD YOU FOUND US

FROM SOCIAL MEDIA TO REAL-LIFE SISTAAAHOOD! 🥹💜🫂

Meeting an HS warrior for the first time will NEVER get old! 🥹💜 kate_queen_azor

A year ago, this beautiful warrior reached out to me searching for connection and community. After countless conversations, WE FINALLY MET! 🗽🫂

THIS IS WHY I ADVOCATE! Not just to raise awareness, but to turn online connections into real-life sisterhoods. To remind every warrior that they NEVER have to fight alone.

Being able to build community right here in my hometown, NYC, is one of my greatest blessings and the true meaning of PURPOSE! 💜

And listen, once you meet your HS Bestie, HS Baddie, and HS Sistaaaa, WE LOCKED IN AND WE GO TOGETHER REAL BAD! 😂💅🏽💜

📣 CALLING ALL HS WARRIORS! Have you found your HS community yet? If not, COMMENT YOUR CITY BELOW! 🌎👇🏽 Your next HS bestie might be closer than you think!

COME FIND US! 🗽💜

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🗽 THE CITY THAT ONCE HELD MY PAIN IS NOW THE CITY WHERE I’M BUILDING MY PURPOSE. 💜

They say, “If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.” But for me, New York City isn’t just where dreams come true. It’s HOME. It’s where my story began, where I struggled, where I survived, and where I’m turning every dream into reality. 🥹✨

For years, I felt failed by the very healthcare system that was supposed to help me. Yet, through my career in social work and serving individuals experiencing homelessness, I discovered something greater than myself: the power of showing up for others, even while fighting battles of my own.

And today, looking at these photos, I see more than beautiful faces. I see healing. I see purpose. I see a community I once prayed to find. 🫂 hsconnectorg

Every HS Warrior I’ve connected with in my hometown is a reminder that I was never alone. The same compassion, advocacy, and support I’ve poured into my work for years as a social worker, I now have the privilege of pouring into a community that understands my pain without needing an explanation.

New York City raised me. Social work shaped me. HS challenged me. But COMMUNITY gave me a purpose bigger than anything I could have imagined. 💜

And I’m just getting started. My dreams for this city, this sisterhood, and the HS community extend far beyond these photos.

Until every warrior feels seen, heard, supported, and represented, I will continue standing for US ALL.

📍 From the BRONX to the WORLD 🌎

Warriors, wherever you are in the world, I ask you to help us make the invisible condition VISIBLE.

🗽 #findus26 💜 hsconnectorg

Every Story Matters. Every Voice Belongs.

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10 YEARS WITHOUT ANSWERS. 6 YEARS DIAGNOSED. 2 YEARS OF COMMUNITY. AND NOW… WE’RE MAKING HISTORY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA?! 🥹🗽💜 hsconnectorg

If you told the younger me, a Bronx girl who once felt completely alone with HS, that one day she’d be celebrating a national milestone alongside more than a dozen NYC HS Warrior… I would’ve NEVER believed you. 🥹

BUT LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRUST YOUR TIMELINE. ✨

Watching Brindley Brooks brindley_brooks and Cydd Carter socialcydd bring Hidradenitis Suppurativa awareness to national television was already unforgettable. But experiencing that moment surrounded by MY NYC WARRIOR SISTAAA & Brother ? PRICELESS. 💜

To my NYC Sistaaaa, you’ve filled a space in my heart I never knew could feel this complete. We’re not just building community. We’re creating the sisterhood we once needed. 🫂

To hsconnectorg thank you for growing alongside me these past two years and allowing us to share milestones that once felt impossible.

And that vintage green rooftop? FOREVER OUR SPOT! 💚🎶 More milestones, more memories, and more moments singing “if you meet me at our spot .” IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW! 😂

FROM FEELING INVISIBLE TO MAKING SURE THE WORLD SEES US. 🥹🗽

My heart is FULL. My purpose is CLEAR. And warriors, WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED! 🚀

THIS IS SISTERHOOD. THIS IS PURPOSE. 🗽🧩💜

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