#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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So drunk I can’t remember
Sexual Assault
I know when I see a rapist...
my story
Confused for Too Long
My Story
Torn
Too many to stop it
לא יוצאים מזה…
Mi Historia
Domestic Rape
My Ex-husband
So Young
He Was My Father
Pastor’s Son
College Student
My stepfather raped me
I let it happen twice
5 Years On
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Darkness With Friends
I’m Disgusted
Black and Blue
It was not my fault
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Just wanted to be loved
Spoke out and was blamed
A Victim No Longer
My Girlfriend of Two Years
Proud
It still doesn’t feel real…
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I was just 9.
Rape
Lost Soul
Raped because of who I loved
Patient People
היי
I can’t keep quiet anymore
So Now What?
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Gang rape
You are going to show me how...
Thank you
The Story Of Two Rapes
Bringing the Stories to Light
The Story of a Boy
Realization of Rape
I Was 19
How can we make it stop?
Rape
Scammer
My Friend’s Ex-Boyfriend
Never Be the Same Again
weird brother
I Was a Virgin
I Never understood
Every Time I Said “No”
They asked if I was lying
Naive and Raped at 15
A Different MeToo
I’ve survived sexual abuse
James
Incest
Forced, De-flowered
*rape
I Am Still Standing
Too naïve
Ready to Share
Mi Esposa
Rape
Summer 2019
Molested
Sexual Coercion
Self Worth
Hostage
Just a Child
I Was Only a Child
A respectable collegue
Invictus
The Touches I Felt
Raped By 6 Men
Rape By Unknown
All Just Too Much
Sexual Abuse
I Thought It Was Normal
I thought he was a friend
Freshman on Campus
The Night That Changed My World
Twenty Years of Hell
Rape
First Time Sharing
Consent, control and consequences
First Friend at University
From Grief to Trauma
My Modeling Experience
My best friend
dad and mom rape
My sexual assault will not define me
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Help…
More Than Once
Abused at the Age of 4
The Statistics that Changed Me
Started With My Father
Speaking Out
45 Years of Being the Victim
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Set Up
Michelle Johnston
Miss
3 balls, striking
Raped By My Father
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Myself
Not Safe in Your Own Family
That’s not Me, it’s Her
It Was the Second
Workplace Sexual Harassment
When will it be enough?
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Please do not be afraid of being...
Growing Past Just Surviving
The Life I Live
I Too Was Raped
It was just a friend date
My 18th Birthday
Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Ex-husband
Alcohol
I am a Rape Survivor
Despedida
My Story
Suffered and Survived
Raped Husband
My Boyfriend Raped Me
He used me. He left me.
Males are Victims Too
Lasting Effects
Abuse and Rape
Perfect on Paper
Date rape
Seis Años
Gang Rape
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
Continue to Survive
A Scared Little Girl
He Was My Father
What’s Done Is Done
Stronger Every Day
Rape Shaming
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Freshman Year
Raped
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Help
Surviving my father
Just Words
ללינור היקרה
Abused since I was young
Dear My Rapist
I wish she wouldve helped me
עדיין מציק
My Mom
Last Party
I was assaulted twice at the same...
Was I assaulted?
כמוני כמוך
Convincing Myself
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Thought I Knew Hi
Raped in a Psychiatric Hospital in the...
When I Was 8 Years Old
Erase and Rewind
I was raped for 3 years
Knowledge is Power
April 2015
I was very dumb.
Not Real Rape
My story growing up with a secret
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
Drunken rape
Effort To Survive
Erased From Memory
I was used. I got left. I...
I am still running
Tormented
The Setup
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Abuse Continued
Raped by my Stepfather
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Is It Rape When It’s Your Husband??
Another kid raped me
Ex-Boyfriend
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
It Was My Fault
Nightmare
Childhood Abuse
My Year in Hell
These Men are More Protected Than We...
My story growing up with a secret
7 years and it still controls me
Trapped In a Fantasy World
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
I don’t know anymore
We Need Peace Too
My step dad raped me
Multiple Times
Online dating
Drugged
Justice
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Lost Dignity
Rape
3x
College Rape
Sexual Harrassment
לפני 14 שנים
Thank you for being LOUD!
I’m getting Married tomorrow
Mistaken Identity
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Prom Night
Ms.
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Story
My Mother was raped and told me...
My teacher and my step-brother
First Friend at University
Too drunk to respond
It will get better
אוףףףף
My Interview
7th Grade Assault
Hidden Emotions
I will never forget
Choir Camp
Sexually assulted by coworker
Middle School
Not Over It
I Recorded my Rapist
Unethical or illegal?
The Power of Victimization
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Too naïve
#MeToo 5 years later…
Empty
University Bar
10 years later I realised
Not Sure It Happened
Not My Friend
Memory or a dream?
Broken
I was sold to a pedophile
Disappointed
I Thought He Loved Me
הטרידו אותי
I Never Told Anyone
My Innocence Was Taken Away
Male dancer
Why Me, Time and Time Again
My Rape Stories
Sex doll
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
Raped
Don’t Give Up
