By humanizing the victim, survivor-led campaigns erode victim-blaming. They replace judgment with understanding. For instance, the #MeToo movement did not succeed because of a white paper on workplace harassment; it succeeded because millions of women finally typed "Me too," transforming a silent statistic into a chorus of lived experience.

We live in a world flooded with data. We see the numbers: "1 in 3," "every 68 seconds," "a 40% increase." These figures are crucial for researchers and policymakers, but numbers numb. Statistics inform the head, but stories change the heart.