Bio

Donna-Marie Donaldson (Dee) is a writer, educator, and researcher whose work spans long-form reflective writing and public-facing analysis. She writes essays and memoir grounded in women’s lived experience, with a focus on harm, voice, power, and the social rules that shape what women are allowed to say.

Her observations on the impacts of gendered abuse and control are drawn from decades working within systems tasked with care, control, and protection; including as a clinical psychologist, as a police officer, and her own lived experiences.

Through a grounded voice and a wry appreciation of the absurd, Dee highlights and questions the social and cultural norms that seek to define, and confine, women.