how did we get here?
WTDS was founded by Shannon Porter and Lauren King
What They Don’t Say was born out of two survivors’ shared experience and shared need for a resource that didn’t exist. We were both sexually assaulted by the same person: a close family friend. After enduring a two-year military court process, we realized how little space existed for honest, human conversations about what survivors go through.
Out of that need, What They Don’t Say was born: a place to make conversations about sexual assault more approachable, honest, and real.
The project started as a shared effort and continues today under Shannon’s leadership, carrying forward the same mission that brought it to life.
What They Don’t Say is a survivor-led media space changing how we talk about sexual assault and healing.
Through our podcast, social channels, merchandise, and live workshops, we bring real, unfiltered conversations about consent, trauma, and recovery into spaces where they’ve been ignored for too long.
The Goal: to make the hard conversations approachable without watering them down.
We say what they don’t
So what exactly is wtds?
Let’s change the way we talk about sexual assault
Podcast
A space sharing: stories, clinical insights, lived experiences of the legal system, and ongoing missions from our guests.
We mix these insights with dark humor, hope, and raw emotion, creating a unique, untraditional and unfiltered vibe unlike any sexual assault conversation you’ve ever heard.
Social media
Building a community to interact with content surrounding the topic of sexual assault. A place where our listeners can converse about the topics on our podcast and engage with frequent posts.
Infiltrating feeds with the truths we know but don’t say.
Merchandise
Clothes that start conversations that need to be had.
Publicly declare your stance on sexual assault.
Workshops
People deserve meaningful programs around sexual assault prevention, consent education, bystander intervention, and how to empathetically responding when someone discloses they’ve been sexually assaulted.
Current programs are too cooperate, too old, too stale, and not memorable. Ticking a required box instead of creating change in the community that recieves them.