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29/12/2025

New year new calendar graphics! 🙂‍↔️ Lots of exciting things in the new year!! 🥺

Friends, thank you for an incredible 2025!! We’re so excited to keep hanging out next year!

As a personal goal for 2026, I (xinyi) want to host more workshops because I find them to be a great way to practice public speaking in an intimate environment to foster personal development & cozy community. 🥰 So we have a few workshops on the calendar for Jan! Including…

💻 Make Your Free Canva Website Workshop (lots of friends have asked me to do graphic design/Canva workshops, so I’m gonna give this a go) 🙂‍↔️ $30pp for you to leave class with a published website (whether it’s a personal portfolio or business site) 📍

🔮 Dream WIth Us: New Years Vision Board & Sound Bowl Meditation Workshop in collaboration with $25pp (art supplies included)📍.peace

🖍️ Drawing Party $15pp (art supplies included)📍Hyphen Space for you to meet fellow creatives (all levels welcomed!)

Let us know if you want to host workshops or small hobby gatherings (hiking, crafting, etc) with us in the new year!! We are a group of introverts who prefer intimate gatherings rather than large networking events (me included). 🥹

Sending everyone so much love!

16/12/2025

Bring a wrapped book to exchange (cap $15) and read with us tomorrow night!

📍 Richardson, TX @ Wed 12/17 6:30pm

📗 Comment “book” for free RSVP!

15/12/2025

Just a few questions from our Dec monthly Conversation Game nights where we put strangers in small groups to have wholesome conversations. 🥹 These also make for good journaling prompts if you’re feeling reflective but don’t know what to write!

💬 Our next Convo Game Night is in ATX w/ this Thursday !!

📝 We actually have a cozy journaling club meet up in Dallas w/ .lisenby.__ at

Comment “RSVP” if you want to come to either of these events & I’ll send you the link!

Ps. Hi I’m XinYi (“shin-yee”) the founder of Don’t Be Strangers! I run this project part time for fun. 🙂‍↔️ Besides connecting introverts so that we all feel less alone, I love helping creatives in corporate get unstuck. I, too, am a creative stuck in corporate and have struggled with finding time/energy to pour into my own person creative projects! If this is you, I’m inviting you to travel with me to Tulum, Mexico for an Adult Spring Break to disconnect from your everyday life to reconnect with your creativity. 🌴 Comment “Tulum” if you want more info!

04/12/2025

A little reintroduction if you will. 🥰 We’re Don’t Be Strangers.

Hi! I’m XinYi (“shin-yee”)! I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾 and moved with my family to Dallas, Texas 🤠 at the age of 7. My first couple of years in school were a huge struggle. English was not my first language and entering 2nd grade after skipping almost a year of school due to the move made making friends quite difficult. But even after learning English,

I never felt quite at home... anywhere.

Culturally, I wasn’t fully American, but when my family and I visited Malaysia, I was painfully aware that I didn’t quite belong there either. 😩
When it came to my passions, I could never make up my mind on a specific creative outlet or medium to hone — not because of indecisiveness (ok, maybe a little bit), but because I find joy in the process of learning, remixing, and over-complicating mixed-media projects. But before I found pride in calling myself a creative chimera, I was hopelessly lost in how to identify my art and therefore myself. 🙈
Being aromantic meant that I couldn’t relate to 99% of the stories represented in pop culture. ❤️‍🩹

In short, I thought I was an alien. 👽 (After all, surely you’re not human if can’t understand such a basic human experience such as romantic love, right?) And I think, partially because I didn’t care for romantic love, I dearly longed for platonic love — AKA friends.

With every friend that I’ve found (who listened to me wholeheartedly and confided in me sincerely), I began to feel less and less alien and more and more at home on Earth. 🌎

I began to feel like I belonged.

This is why I’m so passionate about connecting people.
I know what it feels like to feel alone.

And that’s why you matter.

Because your existence validates someone else’s.

01/12/2025

Happy December! 🎄 Let’s finish this year soft, slow, and in good company. 🐌

We have a lot of exciting new things popping up! Let us know which one you’re coming to!

As always, spot the typos (I’m sure they exist because we always find some 🙂‍↕️)!!

Also don’t forget to tell your girlies about our trip to Tulum, Mexico! We have a few spots left and it’s going to be incredible! 🏝️

12/11/2025

You guys are the absolute best!! I adore the conversations, intention, and insights you bring to this safe space.

Extra love to for helping us to keep going. Forever love to for making Dallas possible.

If you’ve been shy, this is the place for you.

24/10/2025

Rainchecked!! To Thursday 11/6 🥹

Due to storms in the area tomorrow night, we decided to move this out! 🙏

Come hang with us at Hyphen Space for a chill time offline! Bring an off-screen activity you want to relax with (a book, a puzzle, art supplies) or come to play with the materials we will offer! 💛

How this will work: we will have 2 rounds of 45mins of silent me-time activities with 2 rounds of 15min breaks for you to connect with others (15mins to connect, 45mins of solo activity, 15mins to connect, 45mins of solo activity). 💚

If you don’t have anything you want to bring, your ticket will include access to materials for:

🧤 Slime making
🏺 Clay modeling
🎨 Watercoloring for pages and for lanterns
🖍️ Coloring pages
💎 Bracelet making

🧃🍿 Your ticket also comes with 1 canned drink or snack of your choice!

15/10/2025

Lil photodump from last Saturday to celebrate a cozy and fun hangout with the girls + our journals!

Thank you to everyone who came out and brought their good vibes! 🥹 These events wouldn’t be possible without you!

Extra love to & for hosting this event!

See you at our next one? 🙏 Comment “events” for a link to our calendar with all our upcoming hangs!

07/10/2025

Come hang with us at Hyphen Space for a chill time offline! Bring an off-screen activity you want to relax with (a book, a puzzle, art supplies) or come to play with the materials we will offer! 💛

How this will work: we will have 2 rounds of 45mins of silent me-time activities with 2 rounds of 15min breaks for you to connect with others (15mins to connect, 45mins of solo activity, 15mins to connect, 45mins of solo activity). 💚

If you don’t have anything you want to bring, your ticket will include access to materials for:

🧤 Slime making
🏺 Clay modeling
🎨 Watercoloring for pages and for lanterns
🖍️ Coloring pages
💎 Bracelet making

🧃🍿 Your ticket also comes with 1 canned drink or snack of your choice!

22/09/2025

Join us at Prairie Creek Park for journaling, nature, and good vibes with your girls! 💚💜

🧘‍♀️ Bring your own picnic mats
📝 Come ready to journal with us!
☕️ We’ll have coffee while supplies last 🤭 (thanks to !!)

Free RSVP by commenting 💜 & we’ll dm you a link!!

15/09/2025

📍Austin, TX! We hope to read and/or write with you (whatever projects you have going on!)

If you struggle with finding friends who can be quiet & productive with you, here’s your place to connect over books and projects! 📖

Comment “RSVP” for a link to join our next meetup!

28/08/2025

You know the drill — spot the typos! 🤭 Can’t believe we’re only a month out from our Healing Girl Retreat! Let us know if you wanna join in!!

Also fresh off the press:
⭐️ Free Writing Workshop with author next Saturday!
💚 Women’s Coworking Play Date Saturday 9/20

Also please write to us if you want to create a little club of your hobby and have us help you promote to bring pockets of community together!!

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