#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.
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My Ex-husband
Breakin Burgler
Multiple Rapes
Life Purpose
I Said No
Forgotten Memories Submerge
I Am A Survivor
Just a Kid
Male Rape Victims Suffer in Silence
Raped By a Friend
I Just Started High School
Was it Really Rape
In Denial of My Rape
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Sexual Assault at 11
5 Years On
A Loss to Mankind
More Than Once
J’avais 13 ans
Speaking Up for Women
There Is Hope For Us
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Stepfather
LOST
הטרידו אותי
My year abroad
It wasn’t my fault
Raped at age 9 & 15
Drunk and taken advantage of
גבר אלים וחולני
Metoo
3 years on
Why
My Life, My Achievement
Beyond a story
my story
Spousal Rape
Family Party
Travelling
היי לינור
Never Forget
עדיין מציק
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
So drunk I can’t remember
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
At 17yr old was raped by my...
At 17yr old was raped by my...
How I Was Raped
3x
Raped by my step father
intruder
Ms.
Four Years Ago
Blamed myself …
There are a lot of assholes on...
My Own Sister
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Young and Unaware
Set Up
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
When does it get easier?
Why you should talk to your daughters...
April 8th, 2016
En Enero de 2010
My story growing up with a secret
Thank You
Childhood Rape
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Innocence Taken
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
My Snowball Effect
My Life
Metoo
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Bringing the Stories to Light
Too naïve
Woke up violated and confused.
Seis Años
Still Unable to Tell People
My Rape Stories
You are going to show me how...
My 21st Birthday
Worst Day Ever
I was 5.
It was normal
It Was Too Late
Sexual Abuse
The Statistics that Changed Me
Rape
Emotional Abuse
Online dating
I Am Not Brave
Rape
When tears and no aren’t the answer
Summer 2019
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Devil In Disguise
Raped By a Female
Literal Hell
Think You Know
Raped because of who I loved
My Fault or His
raped and isolated
He doesn’t even know he raped me
I Choose Hope

Kidnapped
He was right
Friends?
Why I Am The Way I Am
That wasn’t too bad now was it?
Just Another Night
Repressed Memory
He Stole Something From Me
Started At 12…
I still don’t know what happened
I’m tired of hiding what you did
A young mother
Life Changer
My Journey (sexual abuse)
Stronger Than You Think
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
April 19th
Victim Shaming
My Rape
Neglected
Am I really that broken?
…
My First Two Times
Rape By My Husband
Losing My Virginity
I want my innocence back
When Will This Nightmare End
He said I wanted it
Call Me Anything But That
Workplace Sexual Harassment
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Too Scared to Share With My Family
This Is My Story
I Was Only 7
Losing My Virginity
15
Intruded
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
An Orphanage
#IAmBrave and together, #WeAreStrong
He Was My Best Friend
A Picture
Six months in the making..
Raped in a Psychiatric Hospital in the...
Unicorns
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Spoke out and was blamed
Narcissistic Ex
It Can Happen To Anyone
Moving On
Too Far
היי
I wish she wouldve helped me
Babysitters
Devil In Disguise
Despedida
Erase and Rewind
And It Continues
My Story
You Must Acknowledge
University Bar
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
Male dancer
Broken Girl
A Lifetime
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Was I raped?
Lost in Europe
Rape By Unknown
It was never…..That
Erase and Rewind
I’m Unbroken and So Are You
To this day I still feel sick…
Sexual Assault in my own bed
Scared and Confused
Someone so close to me
The Night That Changed My Life
My boyfriend of 2 years
Rape
I Lost My Teenage Years
I forgot, but then I remembered
Mental Breakdown
Just Words
23 year old virgin
Molested by my biological father
הסיפור שלי…
Not all friends are true
College Campus Rape
You Must Acknowledge
Naive
Molestation
Party Time
This is MY story
When I Was 7
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Second Night of College
My story
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Lasting memories
Beyond a story
Simple games was a way to hide...
Warning
Rubbing my scars
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Can Anyone Help?
Raped At 15
I still see him on campus
Time Heals
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Sexual abuse
‘Were you drinking?’
My best friends dad
Together, We Are Brave

Blackout
Was it rape?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
A respectable collegue
Drugged
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Sex doll
Halloween Nightmare
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Army
Multiple Times
לפני 14 שנים
Black Girl
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Halting The Pain
My Story
Date Raped When I Was 15
Ketamine Rape
Why does this keep happening to me?
Playing Games
I Prayed for Death
Gang Rape
Stress
Still Terrified
Ready to Share
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Doctor Nightmares
לא יוצאים מזה…
Still Unable to Tell People
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Date Rape
My 21st Birthday
I Was Manipulated
Touched
raped by my own brother
Leaving the party
Healing takes time
Unethical or illegal?
My first love
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Dirty Whore
Hateful
Don’t Know
I Need to Tell Someone
Friends?
Childhood Trama
2 Years Ago
ללינור היקרה
Myself
I was raped
James
My Story
Date Rape
Survivor
