about

unconditional & unsweetened is a passion project that has been a pipe dream for many years, but really started becoming undeniable and planning began in the summer of 2024.

hi, my names colson and i’m twenty-four years old. i’m from a small town called new hope in the shenandoah valley of virginia. and i’m a dual certified member of the dead parents club.

to those who don’t know me, i hope that changes. to those that do, welcome home.

in my time so far on this earth, i’ve been lovingly known & described most as an emotional support person and that has become my proudest label to wear throughout my life. in living through the hardest chapter that life has given me thus far, i’ve realized the mark i wish to leave is creating a space, for anyone who may need, that is nothing but genuine unconditional love that knows no bounds and where there’s never a need to sugarcoat the heavy, ugly, uncertain, & uncomfortable.

that’s what my mom did for the first twenty-four years of my life and that’s what i hope to be for the rest of my time here.

this site will be a hub for (hopefully) many different things, but the underlying mission is to find, create, & promote things that embrace the unsweetened.* that’s what i want to cultivate, whether that’s in my personal reflections, in the stories i both plan & hope to tell or in the things i choose to highlight in the media & entertainment. a culmination of anything that causes you to feel and find a moment for yourself. whether it’s that of being seen, feeling heard or represented, or called out (respectfully). above all else, when you take the time to tap in, i hope you find reminders throughout that you are loved for all of you in your truest authentic self, in this moment. right where your feet are at. and always will be.

¹*this connotation was added to my vocabulary from conversations with one of my best friends when we were neck deep in high tides and living off of keeping each other alive. we would ask each other “do you want my go-to answer or the unsweetened?” which meant no bullshit, the genuine thoughts & feelings behind anything, good or bad, even when we may not want to but ended up doing so because we know we were safe.