I am a writer and social advocate based in Massachusetts and I am also the founder and director of THE HEMLINE; A supportive community that exists to help you connect with who you are on a deeper level, inspiring storytelling and listening.

I created The Hemline because I needed a place to rest.

A place to archive softness. To name silence.

To remind myself—and others—that being whole is not a performance, but a remembering.

I grew up learning how to survive before I learned how to speak.

Before I had the words for care or ritual or grief, I knew what it meant to carry too much and be seen too little.

But I also knew this:

There is power in tending to what the world overlooks.

There is clarity in the quiet.

And there is beauty in being difficult to define.

I am Diamond Smith.

A writer, an artist, and the quiet founder of The Hemline—

a platform made not for attention, but for connection.

Between you and your story.

Between your past self and the one you’re still becoming.

This space isn’t about perfection, or performance.

It’s about presence.

It’s about saying, this is mine to hold.

It’s about creating a community where people—especially those who have been historically ignored—are allowed to be full, to be soft, to be brilliant and boundaryless.

My background is in socially engaged journalism and advocacy—but more than that, I’m someone who has lived inside the ache.

First-generation means I come from the in-between—raised by the resilience of those who stayed, those who left, and those who didn’t get to choose.

Who has loved through the rupture.

And who knows what it means to carry your family, your schooling, and your soul—sometimes all at once.

I didn’t start The Hemline to teach people how to fix themselves.

I started it to say:

You are not broken.

You are already becoming.

Let’s document that.

This is our archive.

Our altar.

Our proof that softness survives.

And that you—exactly as you are—deserve to be held.