This project is very special to me.

It tells the story of how my mom was sexually assaulted as a young adult.
I’d heard the story many times, my mom first told me about it when I was a teenager.

I knew she was telling me the story to warn me about what the world is like and what to be careful of. But what I learned some years later when she brought it up to me again, is that she had never had any closure from the incident. It was still nagging at her, and she wasn’t sure what to do with this memory and secret - at time of writing her assaulter or his estate had never been charged and he had not been publicly outed as an assaulter by anyone who may have had similar experiences.

I’m incredibly grateful to have a mother who was so brave to tell me and others her story, and who has come out of the other end of this project with more closure than she’s had these past 25 years. I’m also grateful that I was able to be part of such a project for someone, especially her.