October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Ms. Blog will be publishing a series of posts detailing the impact of domestic violence, including personal essays and more, throughout the month. Sitting here, cradling my baby in my arms, it is hard to imagine the life I once lived. The violence is etched in my brain, a tremor […]
Author: McKenna Daniel-Nelson
McKenna Daniel-Nelson is an emerging young artist, designer and author. Having studied women’s studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she is well versed in the politics of power, gender norms and ideologies, rape culture and gendered violence.
Ode to My Father–And Against Violence
Twenty-five years ago to this day, August 26, 1986, my father was murdered in his law office by a former woman client who had stalked him and repeatedly asked him to run away with her. He had rejected her offers, brushing her off as “that crazy Linda.” But on this day, when he turned her […]