Your voice is the only thing they could never truly take.
CommunityQuote
Featured stories
Recently told, the silence broken
Feature a story in slot 1
Feature a story in slot 2
Feature a one-sentence story in slot 3
1 in 6
women in the U.S. has been the victim of attempted or completed rape.
1 in 33
men in the U.S. has experienced attempted or completed rape.
68%
of sexual assaults are never reported to the authorities.
Our mission
Our stories have power.
For years, that power worked against us. It kept us small. It kept us silent. It kept us carrying something the world could not see.
But a story’s power can change hands. Told, it becomes passion. Told, it becomes purpose. And told alongside others, it becomes proof of the thing we most needed to know: we are not alone.
The world knows what sexual abuse is. It hardly knows what it is to live with it — not the moment, but the years. Not the event, but the life that follows. That is the story we tell here.
I tell my story so there is one less story to tell.
Jean Dorff — founder
A note from the founder
I started this mission to show the world how many of us carry a story.
I told mine. I could spend my life trying to tell yours too — but nothing I write will ever be as powerful as your story, told in your own words. Anonymously, if that is what safety asks of you. The words matter more than the name.
Because the world cannot respond to what it does not know. And if the world is not listening yet — maybe we are simply not loud enough.
— Jean Dorff
Bestselling author of Broken Silence
Awareness
Articles, statistics, and news about life after.
A working resource for survivors, families, journalists, and researchers — grounded in what survivors themselves tell us.
The vow that made this place
“I tell my story so there is one less story to tell.”
— every survivor who has spoken here