L.Y. Marlow is the third generation of her family to have
been a victim and survivor of domestic violence: a
violence that almost took her own life and the life of
her unborn child. In her award-winning Color Me
Butterfly, she tells the poignant and evocative story of
four generations of mothers and daughters: the true
story of her grandmother, her mother, herself, and her
daughter; and the toll intergenerational domestic
violence and abuse has had on her family for over
sixty years.
But the story does not end there. In the fall 2007, Ms.
Marlow discovered that her 22 year old daughter was
trapped in an abusive relationship--one in which the
abuser not only tried to kill her daughter twice, but
threatened the life of their baby girl named Promise.
When the system failed to protect Ms. Marlow's
daughter and granddaughter, she decided to turn her
pain into a Promise for Change. She founded the
Saving Promise Campaign, a national grassroots
domestic violence movement to finally put Domestic
Violence Awareness on the map in the same way
Breast Cancer Awareness has been made a national
priority.
Go to L Y Marlow's website located at
http://www.colormebutterfly.com/
