🧡🧡🧡 Howdy! I am so grateful you found this community! You make what I do so fulfilling. So, thanks for being here.
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q: what will land in my inbox?
🍭 I will be posting when new episodes of my series Cake It ‘Til You Make It are live.
🍭 Inspired by my sporadic lists in the earlier version of this mailing list and how much this community loved them (plus the recovery of burnout that brought back my capacity to write to you) I will be publishing my chronic overshares in list form.
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q: what about what you used to write?
🍭 You can explore Queer joy by visiting episodes of my podcast, My Dad Stole My Limelight through the archives.
🍭 My earlier digital journals of a chronic oversharer, with a prompt for you to answer in the comments, are also in the archives. You can read more about the retirement of this journal here. Like the best rockstars, retirement did not mean forever.
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q: where am i? what is this?
hi, lauren deborah! — essentially my digital journal — is where I do not pretend to be an expert on anything but I do lean into the fact that I cannot shut up. Someone once tried to sass me by calling me a chronic oversharer and now I have an entire “brand” built off of it so thank youuuuuuuu for the inspo!
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q: who is lauren?
Lauren Deborah (they/she) is a former closeted lesbian and former closeted comedian. They are happy to report they are now openly both.
They are known for their Cake It ‘Til You Make It series that lives on @hilaurendeborah. In these videos, Lauren lovingly forces friends to make cakes from The Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book in the hopes to get the attention of Bake Off and become a host.
Lauren was a State Finalist in Raw Comedy 2025. Lauren travels around the world performing stand-up comedy. They are on an endless summer vacation, made possible by full-time housesitting.
Lauren’s podcast about coming out, My Dad Stole My Limelight, part of Vancouver’s 604 Podcast Network, has been seen live at Vancouver Pride, in iHeart Podcast spotlight features and Elizabeth Bank’s WHOHAHA’s featured podcasts.
Her digital journal of a chronic oversharer, hi, lauren deborah! lives on Substack. Her writing has been published in Vancouver Pride Magazine and Lauren was the Open Forum Editor for Angles Magazine Volume 2. Lauren was selected in the 2025 CrimeBits Competition and had their work published in the anthology.
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q: is it really free?
It is important to me that art is for all, that is why hi, lauren deborah! will always be free. However, if you would like to financially support the work put into this publication, you can tip me by buying me an ice cream🍦Tips give me the flexibility of more time to dedicate to this work. 🧡🧡🧡 Comments, likes, shares and kind messages are all other things I love and ways you can support me, too. I love them very much.
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LOVE YOU!
Thanks for being here!
🧡, LD (lauren deborah | they/she)
