Dani Kelley

Dani Kelley spends her professional time as a graphic designer currently based in northwestern Maryland. Outside the office, she works on learning how to be a better human while also hand-lettering, video gaming, blogging, and being the best dog mom she knows how to be.

This is Not The Story I Wanted—But It’s My Story of Rape

Dani Kelley

Writer Dani Kelley thought she had shed the patriarchal and self-denying lessons of her conservative religious childhood. But those teachings blocked her from initially admitting that an encounter with a man she met online was not a "date" that proved her sexual liberation, but an extended sexual assault.