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1 y separately published work icon Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant Sienna Rose Scully , Martin Ingle , Katharine Pollock , Dani Leever , Patrick Marlborough , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 24675081 2022 selected work autobiography

'Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant is a collection of real-life stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Contributors are Martin Ingle on OCD and sexual intimacy; Dani Leever on contamination-based OCD; Patrick Marlborough on living with OCD in NYC; Katharine Pollock on over-achievement and control of food and body; and Sienna Rose Scully on the untimely death of her mother, an event that actualised her most persistent OCD obsession.'  (Publication summary)

1 The Timeless Magic of Goth Spaces Dani Leever , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Voiceworks , July no. 115 2019; (p. 6-7.)
'I spent most of my teenage years crying, watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, and hanging at Flinders Street Station. Not because I was one of the 93,000 daily passengers accessing its fifteen train lines. Because I was part of an untouchable cultural ecosystem on the steps leading up to the train station. The goth space.'

 (Introduction)

1 Not All Glitter and Lipstick : Drag Outside the Gender Binary Dani Leever , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 112 2018; (p. 85-90)
'I was washing the sticky residue of a lemongrass soap off my hands. 
''Do you want to borrow some moustache hair?' Dani asked me while almost touching noses with their reflection, meticulously placing individual hairs on the glue on their upper lip.'  (Publication abstract)
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