: About Me

I am a 23-year-old college graduate with a BA in Communications and a minor in Women's Studies. I'm an aspiring writer who wants to change the world through my words. Experience has taught me that through writing you can enact change, raise consciousness about important issues, and find a sense of empowerment within yourself. I believe that through Helium I can do just that so please read, write, and make a change!

My passion is ...

writing, reading, living . . .

My parents always told me ...

I could do or be anything I wanted to be.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Namesake, So You Think You Can Dance, Spring Awakening soundtrack

My first job ...

babysitting (which I occasionally still do)

My best moment ...

meeting Eve Ensler (meeting Sarah Jessica Parker is a close second).

My inspiration ...

the women who surround me.

Relationships & Family > Domestic Violence & Abuse Essays: Domestic violence

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Til Death Do Us Part For many girls, the notion of marriage and motherhood is instilled from a very young age. Little girls dream of their wedding day in great detail picturing and planning what they will wear, where they will wed, and of course, who will be there to greet them at the end of the aisle. In a world where more than fifty percent of women experience some sort of abuse, marriage is not always the "happily ever after" we've dreamed up. In Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Fight Back (2000), Elisabeth Beattie and Mary Angel Shaughnessy detail the dark reality of domestic violence b...

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