#WeAreBrave
SPEAK OUT. SPEAK LOUD. SPEAK TOGETHER.
Welcome to a safe, carefully moderated world of testimonials from survivors of sexual assault and rape. Join our community by sharing your story or showing your support. This platform is meant to heal and not re-traumatize. Please remember to practice self-care if reading these stories is triggering to you.
The #WeAreBrave Story Platform has made BraveMissWorld.com the #1 Google search result worldwide for survivors seeking to share their stories. Yet it was born by accident. When Miss World Linor Abargil decided to step forward and speak publicly about her rape in 2008, she launched the website LinorSpeaksOut. Her mailbox was quickly flooded with emails from survivors wanting to share their stories with someone who would believe them and offer words of support. Linor met with many of the women and men who wrote to her, and included their stories in her film.
When the documentary Brave Miss World was completed and launched in 2014, LinorSpeaksOut was merged into BraveMissWorld.com, which became the online hub for survivors wanting to share their stories. With generous grants from The Artemis Rising Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, The Francis Family Foundation, and The Roy A. Hunt Foundation among others, the filmmakers and a small team of volunteers have curated this one-of-a-kind collection of over 2,500 testimonials, each carefully moderated to screen out any remarks that are disrespectful of survivors. We are committed to making sure that everyone submitting and reading stories on our site feels safe.
Our goal is to change the conversation around assault and rape. Women’s voices are finally being heard. Until now, we have not demanded that the culture be changed. We are saying no to the deafening silence that has surrounded rape and assault. We encourage members of our community to share their stories, because we believe that healing begins with speaking out and receiving support. Each story on our site receives a supportive comment from a trained advocate, as well as comments from our #WeAreBrave community. Every story is incredibly different and unique, but they all share the tremendous strength and resilience of survivors.
We know our platform works, because of the feedback from those using our site whose lives have changed in significant ways as a result of watching the film and/or sharing their story with others. Every day, new viewers and visitors discover and explore #WeAreBrave and many write to thank us for creating and maintaining this important space. For all those sharing their unique personal experiences and brave accounts of the lasting emotional impact of rape and assault, you are not alone.
Our work needs you. Your continuing support has enabled us to upgrade this site and add the ability to submit audio and visual testimonials. Please DONATE to help us make sure this resource continues to remain available to all those who need it. All donations are 100% tax deductible through our 501c3 fiscal sponsor, Los Angeles Filmforum.
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Lightening Does Strike Twice
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Justice
Moving On
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Becoming a Warrior
My secret
הסיפור שלי…
ללינור היקרה
Never Heals
My abuse story victim to survivor
Breaking the Trust
A Message from the Director

No Wasn’t Good Enough
Sex doll
I still feel “crazy”
A Close Call With Family
Stolen Innocence
Together, We Are Brave

Can Anyone Help?
Still Lost :/
Raped By My Father
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
School Rape
March 1, 2008
My Story
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Trauma
Black Girl
Okay, Not Okay
Mi Historia
Metoo
Shelter My Soul
My Best Friend’s Brother
Fell In Love With a Monster
Raped After School
When no means nothing
He Took My Virginity
Ms
Love of My Life?
Letter to…
My Daughter
Unwanted Flashbacks
3 incidents
Finally Arrested
#IStandWithHer
Mi Esposa
Never Wanted to Believe
Lost Soul
Dating & Relatives
Rape
blackmailed
15
Warning
Date Rape
Never Even Knew
Betrayed By My Husband
Unethical or illegal?
I think I was raped
A Year After
Everyone loves him
My story growing up with a secret
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Semper Fi
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
Rape & Sexual Assault
Date Rape
A letter to my rapist
My story
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Am a Survivor…
Stranger Danger, Yeah Right.
I’m Confused
Stranger Rape
Ready to Share
Not normal
My 21st Birthday
It Started With Date Rape
Drunk and Alone
Forgiving My Rapist
Hide & Seek
Raped at 17
Don’t Want to Admit It
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
13 & Alone
More Than a Survivor
היי
Bartender Lies
It Felt Like Rape
High School Rape
Just Another Night
Attempted rape
A Ruined Life
Was it my fault?
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Ms.
1 hour 3 days
He Was a Friend
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Use and Throw
הטרידו אותי
Why was it my fault?
Speaking Up for Women
Sexually abused by a 11/12 girl
The same guy
Military Sexual Trauma
Not Real Rape
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Was it Really Rape
No Justice
Ketamine Rape
Sexual Assault
Dream / Recall
Erase and Rewind
I Am Still Standing
When will it be enough?
Sexually Assaulted or Not?
The Reason I Feel Alone
Army
Freshman Year
Seis Años
My “Father”
Nashville Sweetheart
Sexually Abuse
Lied to left brain damged
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
The Touches I Felt
My Husband Set Me Up!
3 Different Times
He Was My Boss
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Never Even Knew
My Mother was raped and told me...
Rubbing my scars
A Letter to My Rapist
Blamed myself …
Roommates
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
En Enero de 2010
My Story
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
I felt like it didn’t count because...
Still Rape
Does the pain ever go away?
my story
I Was Prepared
Not Really Love
Marital Rape
Just Words
Incest
How Many Times?
Freshman Year
University Bar
Male dancer
Spoke out and was blamed
Rape
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Myself
Raped in College
Moving on Alone from Rape
Healing takes time
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Intimate Partner Violence
עדיין מציק
You Were My Brother’s Best Friend
Too Many Times
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
The cycle
My step dad raped me
Kept From Us
Surviving sexual assault trauma
It Can Happen To Anyone
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
In-Between Times
Drunk and taken advantage of
11 Years to Justice
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Rape
I Was Just a Little Girl
Fraternity Men
Rape !!
Was it my fault
Is It Really Rape?
He used me. He left me.
Happy Survivor
Rape
Rape
Politeness Serves No One
So Many Times
My First “Boyfriend”
I Didn’t See It In Time
Light In The Dark
The abuser
My Mother Was Raped
Thank You
Anxiety
A Journal of a Wayward Child
A respectable collegue
I’m Not Sure
Males can be victims too
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Raped in the Air Force
גבר אלים וחולני
He Took My Virginity
My Story of a Gang Rape
Friends?
Lying Child Molester
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
כמוני כמוך
Me too…
It Started with my Brother
He bought me chips and sent me...
Raped
I Was Raped
Drunken Rape
Sexual Abuse
Don’t Walk By Yourself
Victim No More
Be Aware
Raped At 15
Don’t Give Up
