Offer compensation, counseling access, and final approval of all edits to participating survivors.
We often think of awareness campaigns as logos, facts, and hotlines. But without survivor voices, awareness stays abstract. A statistic like “1 in 3 women experience violence” doesn’t move us the way a sentence like “I hid my phone in my sock drawer so he wouldn’t find it” does.
That campaign didn’t rescue me. But it gave me permission to speak.
Text: “The awareness campaign didn’t ‘save’ me. But it gave me a word for what was happening. Coercive control. Once I named it, I could fight it.” — Maya, survivor of emotional abuse
Offer compensation, counseling access, and final approval of all edits to participating survivors.
We often think of awareness campaigns as logos, facts, and hotlines. But without survivor voices, awareness stays abstract. A statistic like “1 in 3 women experience violence” doesn’t move us the way a sentence like “I hid my phone in my sock drawer so he wouldn’t find it” does.
That campaign didn’t rescue me. But it gave me permission to speak.
Text: “The awareness campaign didn’t ‘save’ me. But it gave me a word for what was happening. Coercive control. Once I named it, I could fight it.” — Maya, survivor of emotional abuse
