Scholars in religion and the broader humanities who address psychological trauma are turning to testimony and witness as categories central, first, to trauma survivors’ efforts to rebuild lives worth living in the aftermath, and second, to the ability of a society to interrupt the systems that create violent conditions in the first place. Opportunities for trauma survivors to speak (testify) and be heard (witnessed) play a vital role in both survivors’ and society’s prospects for a livable future. My dissertation addresses the problem and promise of testimony and witness specifically with respect to sexual violence. Bringing approaches to trauma developed by feminist and womanist theologians into conversation with trauma theory and Freudian psychoanalysis, I argue that psychoanalytic theorization of the relations between memory, history, and trauma are vulnerable to exploitation by social logics that undermine the reliability of sexual violence survivors’ speech. I then trace this vulnerability through texts in trauma studies and religion that use the psychoanalytic paradigm to address sexual violence. In doing so, I call attention to a need for constructive intervention in theological treatments of sexual violence trauma. Addressing that need, I bring current feminist and womanist theological scholarship on testimony and witness to bear specifically on the vulnerabilities of Freudian thought. Relying also on attention to embodied practices of testimony and witness performed by sexual violence survivors with whom I work, I remap the relations between memory, history, and trauma such that a way toward rebuilding life in the aftermath of sexual harm is more securely open for both survivors and the communities in which they live. This work presents lived practice as a substantive source for theology and theorists interested in trauma. It poses questions surfaced by #metoo and its critics to theological discourse on trauma.