welcome to my page

hi. my name is catherine leigh schmidt. i'm a designer and writer from the united states. i'm the co-director of panacea publishing, a small, feminist press devoted to emerging queer literature.

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recently published writing

Decentralized Autonomous Occultism, Spike Art Magazine, January 2022

Many Waters Good Horoscope, January 2023

other projects

Yatra, a typeface published by Google in 2016

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fun facts

• my background is in font, web, and print design, software development, and community organizing.
• i am a child of corporate multinational expats and evangelical missionaries.
• i am interested in decolonial approaches to design, media, and technology in a globalized, neoliberal present. i think criticism is a way to imagine a utopian present.
• i write about astrology and materialist theology.
• my upper-middle class background has given me better access to institutional and financial support.
• i have lived in chile, florida, seattle, providence, mumbai, oakland, and berlin. i am currently based in london.
• i identify as a hot girl

last updated April 2023