Queer, neurodivergent mom and researcher exploring leftist contradictions on the path to collective liberation. How do we survive and even thrive in a capitalist society, while working to create a more radical future?
Pronounced Mad-eh-line (rhymes with pine). Queer, neurodivergent mom, activist and researcher based in Seattle and working in tech. I'm here to explore the contradictions of living a radical, nonconformist, abolitionist life in a capitalist society.
This is a space for reflection and reckoning. It looks at the world and the self in the same breath, tracing how culture, power, politics, and personal experience collide to shape who we are. Each piece seeks clarity in the chaos, finding meaning
Writing that zooms out. New Means discusses politics in the broadest possible ways, from our neighborhoods to our workplaces to our religious lives to organizing to the ways we collectively think.
Finding grace in the ordinary, unsexy parts of life, like reading, walking, and folding the laundry. Sometimes the essays are about the sexy parts, as well.
A newsletter about healing trauma & coming home to our queer and autistic selves.
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