“The ledger became a diary. The diary became a map of hunger— of canada dry, impulse, regret, cucumbers, late-night taxis home, and hope.”

It’s the private math of desire versus discipline. And threaded through it all was belief—unreasonable, recurring, and stubborn—appearing anyway, like a charge you don’t remember authorizing but can’t quite bring yourself to dispute.

TRANSPARENCY

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CAPITALISM

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ETHICAL

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COMMERCIALISM

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TRANSPARENCY ✳︎ CAPITALISM ✳︎ ETHICAL ✳︎ COMMERCIALISM ✳︎

The Week’s Purchases

Explore the range of transactions made on my quest to stay supportive, love blindly, and move forward with confidence… wherever I’m headed next.

Who cares, I’m already broke(n). What can he do to me now.

MORE ABOUT CHELSEA ONIK

Hello!

Chelsea Onik is a supermarket checkout clerk, comedian, strategist, and writer whose work focuses on hypocrisy, narrative design, and the cultural mechanics of power, technology, and influence. Her practice blends editorial storytelling, conceptual development, and satirical analysis to explore how misinformation shapes public perception.

Across her projects, Onik examines the language of platforms, corporate mythology, and digital identity—often using humor and tension to surface underlying structures of control, persuasion, and spectacle. Her work spans long-term short-form writing and world-building— frequently blurring the line between her own life, fiction and critique. At any time, she functions simultaneously as commentary, performance, and artifact.

Her/their approach emphasizes clarity of voice, intention, and ethical inquiry, positioning creativity not only as expression, but as a reflection… of what’s happening in rooms she should be present in.