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And if you are an ally, your job is not to speak for the survivors. Your job is to hold the microphone steady, turn the volume up, and get out of the way.

We live in the age of the "awareness campaign." Pink ribbons, hashtag avatars, and the silent shuffle of a photo slideshow set to a piano ballad. At the heart of these campaigns is a single, sacred artifact: the survivor story. We are told to listen, to bear witness, to amplify. But a shadow hangs over this transaction. In the clean, strategic machinery of a non-profit or a public health initiative, what happens to the jagged, unscripted, often uncomfortable truth of what survival actually means?