"Me Alone" by Valerie Paterson

rape is rape is rape

A North Carolina writer recounts her trauma of being sexually assaulted decades before the “Me Too” movement, lending her voice to the call for change, respect, and accountability.

(This episode contains passages of sexual violence.)

Valerie Paterson lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she is in a Memoir Critique Group, part of Writers Group of the Triad. She has written snippets of her life in her head, many of which are now becoming more real on paper. She loves to design and make quilts and to dance the Argentine Tango.

This story is read by Lauren Summers.
Lauren Summers is a writer and poet from Greensboro, North Carolina, a recent graduate from UNCG with a B.A. in English and minor in German. She began writing seriously early in high school in a creative writing class. She plans to pursue her MFA and thereafter publish.