Violet Budd previously lived in a seaside town of Tropical Far North Queensland where she completed her tertiary education as a mature aged student and worked full-time as a secondary school English and Humanities teacher. She first studied her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature and was profoundly influenced by the provocative and illuminating voices of the Contemporary French Feminists of the late 1990s. At that time, she realised that core concepts of feminist writers were commonly rejected by the male scholars. From there she completed a postgraduate Diploma (Secondary) in Teaching. Determined to maintain a strong feminist approach to education, and to protect her students from harm, she held that people could learn to unlearn sociocultural constructs of language, such as gender constructs wherein men and women are expected to fulfil distinct and separate roles in society.