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Welcome to The Maverick Millennial, a space for those who know there is something deeply broken in progressive culture. Here, I explore the hypocrisies, psychological costs, and spiritual poverty of leftist ideologies, political movements, philosophical beliefs, and religious appeals.
📕 Coming October 21, 2025:
Progressive Prejudice: Exposing the Devouring Mother — my debut non-fiction book, part autobiography, part cultural critique.
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I’m Leslie Corbly. I am an attorney, author, poet, mother, and a female millennial unwilling to embody the hollow generational value of pathological approval seeking.
My work is for those dismissed by the shallow, destructive culture all too common among the progressive, millennial generation. This work is for those judged by tolerance, ridiculed for cultivating virtue, and abandoned for daring to dissent.
I was born in generational exile. I was raised in isolation by a woman who called me half-aborted, in a culture that glorified abortion as liberation, and dismissed female perpetrated emotional abuse as a justified reaction against patriarchal oppression.
The first sentence I learned was “Leslie is half-aborted.” This made philosophical exploration the most practically important pursuit of my life because, from my earliest years, I knew my life was a tragedy to the dominant social forces of the culture into which I was born.
My mother was an enigma. She obtained a master’s in mathematics in the late 1960s, long before there were programs championing women in STEM. However, in defiance of stereotypes, she was ideologically conservative. She abandoned the collegiate classroom where she taught calculus to homeschool her children, creating her own curriculum and successfully teaching seven children to earn degrees in the academic institutions in which they were cultural aliens.
Classroom was not the only space she abandoned. From work, to school, and church, she retreated from the world into the “safety” of home. By the time I was born, “friendship” was forbidden until each child’s initiation into the collegiate academy for which homeschooling was preparation.
Ironically, what was safe for my mother was dangerous for me. Behind the compassion of my mother’s dedication to homeschooling caretaking children lurked the devious motives of the Devouring Mother. The same woman who birthed and taught me, raped, manipulated, and psychologically tormented me. Love, I learned, was often indistinguishable from pain.
The cultural context of progressive spaces enables maternal abuse. From academic institutions to therapist offices, my mother’s actions were denied, minimized, dismissed, explained, or intellectualized. Behind faux compassion was an obvious question: did my mother make the right choice by birthing, rather than aborting, me? Progressives, self-righteously convinced of their superiority would never say they wished I was dead, but I knew many of them believed my death would have been preferable to my birth, and subsequent abuse.
I survived the female perversion of caretaking both personally and ideologically. Feminism’s hyper-focus on the danger of men makes many blind to the damage done by women under the guise of “compassion.” Progressive feminism not only failed to empower me, it dismissed my pain, silenced my voice, extinguished my suffering, and erased my identity.
What progressive culture could not eradicate, it attempted to reform. Behind the “compassion” of progressives who wanted to “liberate” me from victimhood was the desire to break and rebuild me in the image of their ideological ideal.
Fortunately, I have always been impossible to control and incapable of sustained silence.
This Substack exists to give language to the unspoken pain created by leftist ideologies. It examines the hidden costs of progressive, feminist beliefs, gives voice to those under the weight of progressive prejudice, and champions truth over conformity and reality over the pretense of communal belonging.
Expect posts on:
The left’s political woes
Trump’s popularity and polarity
The confusion of modern womanhood
The strength of authentic femininity
The dismissal of maternal abuse
The importance of fathers’ rights
Cultural critique through legal, philosophical, autobiographical, and poetic lenses
Why “progress” is about power, not people
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