Last October, Mount Holyoke junior Ali Safran returned to her Massachusetts hometown to hang a sign. She’d been assaulted three years earlier in the exact spot where she now posted her story, a statistic about sexual violence, and a call to action.

Now, Safran is providing other students with a platform to hang their own signs for a much bigger audience.

Reflecting on her own frustrations with the criminal justice system after her assault, “I felt that people probably had similar stories,” Safran recalls. In honor of April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she has launched “Surviving in Numbers,” a Tumblr dedicated to amplifying the voices of campus survivors by publishing pictures of posters like her own. Although reminiscent of projects ...