Who is Ana Mardoll? Lockheed Martin scandal explained amid Twitter trend

Since it came out that writer Ana Mardoll worked for aerospace company and defense contractor Lockheed Martin, he has gotten a lot of attention on social media. After the activist started a debate about ableism on social media, people started to look into his personal life.

Ana Mardoll is well-known online for what he says about writing and social justice. When he said it was ableist to say that you have to read a lot to be a good writer, he became popular on Twitter. The online personality, who calls himself a “nonbinary trans boy,” got a lot of flak for being too “leftist.”

As Ana Mardoll was still being attacked online, people found out that she worked for Lockheed Martin. It is a big defense company that may have had something to do with the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Reddit user named parsleybutter also said that the group has helped to occupy Palestine. Some people on the Internet even said the company terrorized Yemen.

Lockheed Martin’s website says that most of their work is for the Department of Defense and other federal government agencies in the United States.

Netizens were mad at Mardoll for working with a defense contractor that was seen online to be pro-war.

Ana Mardoll talks about Lockheed Martin’s speech.
At the time this article was written, the author of No Man of Woman Born had turned off her Twitter account. But someone on Twitter shared a screenshot of Ana Mardoll explaining why she worked for the group.

“I got this job because other people in my family work for the same company. I stay because my health requires me to follow an unusual plan. It’s hard to find a WFH job that lets me work 10–20 hours a week and gives me health insurance.

Mardoll explained more about what he does at the company by saying that he is in charge of “software licensing and getting text editors and code compilers for other people.”

Netizens kept criticizing Ana Mardoll for working with the group, and some of them also called him out for lying about his age.

Many people on the internet thought that the author was in his 20s because he called himself a “trans boy.” But it has since come out online that the writer and activist has supposedly been working for Lockheed Martin for 15 years. When the author wrote about himself in a different way, many people felt betrayed.

Netizens also criticized the writer for asking his followers for crowd-funding even though he worked for the largest defense company in the US.

His official website says that he lives with his partner and “five spoiled cats” in Texas.

“Weaving new versions of old fairy tales and making beautiful things to make cold nights warmer.”
The rest of the description said:

Ana has written the Earthside series, the Rewoven Tales books, and many short stories that have been published. Ana likes almost every kind of game besides reading and writing, and she often posts videos of her gaming sessions on YouTube.
On his official YouTube account, where he has posted several Let’s Play videos, Ana Mardoll has more than 4.2k subscribers. His last YouTube video, “Let’s Play Honey, I Joined a Cult,” was posted eight months ago.