About
Rebecca

Rebecca Marlor is an Australian writer and strategist whose work examines the realities obscured by nostalgia for ‘traditional family values.'

Her upcoming memoir, Tradwives and Other Dangerous Fantasies, traces three generations of destruction shaped by domestic violence, coercive control and unchecked patriarchal authority — documenting what these systems looked like for the women and children forced to survive inside them.

The book began in early 2025 as tradwife nostalgia surged online alongside growing political attacks on women’s autonomy across the U.S., Canada and Australia.

“This is not fiction.
This happened.”

Rebecca watched people dismiss stories like The Handmaid’s Tale as fiction while simultaneously advocating for systems women had already lived through.

Drawing from lived experience alongside a background in communications strategy and complex social systems, Rebecca’s work connects personal trauma to the broader cultural, political and institutional structures that enable it.

Her essays and ongoing writing now extend beyond memoir into wider questions of invisible labour, optimisation culture, gender, power and extraction systems in modern life.

Rebecca Marlor

Current Location

Sydney, Australia