Last Night the Grammys Reached Out To Victims of Domestic Violence

We know that the Grammys are not usually a nerd hotspot of viewing, but the dedicated segment on domestic violence, which gave abuse survivor Brooke Axtell a national stage for a stirring speech about her experiences, is definitely up our alley. Axell’s speech lent a personal perspective to the proceedings, along with President Obama’s Grammy Awards message, that ran during the previous commercial break:

The Grammys still have some of their own housecleaning to do vis a vi ignoring/tacitly rewarding abusers, but as somebody on Twitter last night pointed out, Axtell was speaking to a captive audience of America’s recording industry elites, as least some of whom, we can hope, were made distinctly uncomfortable by the idea of a woman speaking out on this issue.

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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