About me

I have been blogging since I was 16 years old, so it’s been almost 20 years now.

Back in the day, after school I travelled by bus for 1 hour 15 minutes out to my little isolated hometown (population 100), immediately logged onto MSN messenger and chatted with my friends until it was time to go to bed (with a short break for dinner with my family).

Between replies from my friends I would write blog posts about my experiences of life and my thoughts on the world. Whenever my friends or I published a new blog post a little dot would come up next to our name on MSN messenger. I loved clicking on my friend’s new blog posts just as much as I loved it when they read mine and left comments.

Fast-forward to the present day and I have added so many identity markers to "blogger".

To name a few: autistic/nb/straight-passing bisexual/mother/wife/research assistant/wannabe librarian/radical leftie.

But I'm still the same person underneath it all, still seeking the same experience from this art form [1]: expressing myself, contributing to discourse, and engaging with other people's work and their responses to my own work.

So if you want to be a part of this experience, please subscribe for fortnightly-ish articles (with seasonal hibernation hiatuses).

Who knows, I might even post some of those cringe blog posts from the vault ;)

~ Emmeline

PS I have disavowed myself of any illusions that my writing will save me from the financial precarity of late-stage [2] capitalism, but if you would like to support my writing with a paid subscription this option will soon be available. My bonus perk for paid members will be 1 zoom call in which I help you work out what book/s to read next, plus follow-up email correspondence on the same topic.

[1] I know it’s not cool to have a blog anymore and we are supposed to call it a “newsletter” with “articles” but I have never fallen out of love with this art form and I'm not ashamed of it.

[2] Fingers crossed!