Dr. M. Colleen McDaniel (she/they) is an award-winning anti-violence activist and interpersonal violence prevention expert based in the Northern Virginia/DC area. Dr. McDaniel has organized for graduate workers’ rights, anti-sexual harassment, and Title IX reform with the Graduate Organizing Committee, AFT #6123 in Detroit, MI and the Alliance for Survivor Choice in Reporting Policies. Dr. McDaniel has conducted and published original psychological research on young men’s sexual aggression perpetration, Social Norms Theory, and Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory. Their public scholarship includes publications in Against the Current: A Socialist Journal, People’s World, and Spark Magazine. Their work can be found on Twitter and Instagram @violence_femme.
The Rule, Not the Exception: Sexual Assault on Campus
Against the Current No. 236, May/June 2025
Toward Communal Healing
Against the Current No. 234, January/February 2025
Toward a "Transsexualized Marxism"
Against the Current No. 227, November/December 2023
Challenging the Comfortable
Against the Current, No. 217, March/April 2022