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slide deck is an independent publication launched in January 2025 by O'Neill.

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I am a working-class trans barista from California, so theoretically I could be just about anybody. But I swear to you I am human and a living, breathing entity; I'm in therapy; am between the ages of 25 and 30; and I cite sources.

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Part of the point of all this was to sit with ideas, just long enough to feel like I was anchored on this planet and couldn't feel the earth spinning. I'm hoping it does something similar for you: meditations on this or that topic, like opening the back of the morning paper. (Light and dark tints of Newspaper, #F5F2E8, are on the website; picking from different dilutions of gray was thrilling).

I've also been reading from Too Much of Life, a collection of Clarice Lispector's crônicas, or newspaper columns, recently. No one can compare to her, but that forms the backbone of inspiration for this.

About the author

Hagsploitation star, defunct opera queen. Novelty gravedigger. Late 20's.