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“There were points where I had to go to a hotel. We didn’t feel safe in our own home. When it started affecting my family, that’s when it really hit me hard.

“My family has been through a lot, but we are strong individuals. We don’t give up. That’s the way I was raised. We didn’t let it defeat us. In fact, I think it made us stronger in the end.”

The woman suffering all these attacks was herself a child of abuse.

“When I was five years old, I was taken away by social services, my three sisters and I, and from then on was in many living situations until they found a permanent one.”

She bounced around among her two grandmothers and her biological dad. Drever says the man who caused the original problem no longer has any contact with the family. She remains close to all family members, including her mom.

Drever says the family history gave her an abiding passion for gender equality and the fight against violence.

“I’m for raising awareness, fighting for social justice and feminist issues,” she says. “I was always a huge advocate in university, as I am now.”

All of which makes the spark that really ignited this political uproar — that album cover — seem all the more bizarre. Why would Drever, feeling as she does, pose for such a picture?

Photo by http://gatekrashor.bandcamp.com/album/fear-of-attack

“I was involved with a man in the band,” she explains. “The band approached me and asked if I wanted to be part of their album cover.

“When we did the photo shoot, they told me they wanted to save me from an attack. The name of it was Fear of Attack, so the premise of it was supposed to be them saving me.