#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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These Men are More Protected Than We...
My Story, My Nightmare
The Woods Don’t Speak
It was just a vacation
So Many Times
Raped by my boyfriend
I can say it now
The Elevator Man
I Woke Up In The Tub
Victim No More
I know when I see a rapist...
Brave
My Mother was raped and told me...
16 times
Stolen innocence
Too naïve
The Statistics that Changed Me
Rape
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
Sexual molestation as a child
Roofied
Male dancer
היי
My Rapists I Grew Up With
Piano Teacher
Just Words
Brothers
Drunken Rape
Once Again
Family rape
Betrayed By My Husband
At 17yr old was raped by my...
Raped By a Female
De Los 6 a Los 12
More Than Once
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
All-time low
I Trusted Him
Rape
Sex doll
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Was It Rape?
Father Figure
Erase and Rewind
Finding Words
Multiple Times
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
Spoke out and was blamed
Innocence
Army
Domestic Rape
Forgiving The Rapist
My story
Obsessed Abusive Ex
not the typical rape
אוףףףף
April 8th, 2016
כמוני כמוך
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I Still Blame Myself
Sexual Abuse
Nothing important…
Despedida
Too naïve
In-Between Times
He said he loved me
Stress
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
My Rape
Abused at the Age of 4
Why
Happy Hell-oween
I don’t know if I was raped
I Barely Knew Them
Sexual Abuse
10 years later I realised
Raped by Brother
Shout Out
To serve and protect, but who will...
Raped 14 times in 1 year
One Of Many
7 Months
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
37 Years Ago
En Enero de 2010
Second Night of College
7 years and it still controls me
Once Again
It never goes away
Summer 2019
Black and Blue
Unethical or illegal?
my story
I thought we were friends
Raped By My Therapist
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
It Started with my Brother
At the Movie’s
Molestation
Secret overload
I don’t know who I am
Myself
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Under Age drinking
Remembering
The pain that was never mine to...
Losing My Innocence At Fifteen
Doesn’t Define Me
Lasting memories
I still hate him
I blamed myself… Twice
Gang Rape
Third time’s the charm
My First Two Times
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
Bringing the Stories to Light
It’s OK
Deep Scars
My Husband Was My Attacker
My Story
“raped” by my long time bf
I thought he liked me
Remember as a victim you have done...
Drunken rape
No Support
I didn’t even know what was happening
Rape
Innocence Taken
I Recorded my Rapist
75 Percent Humidity
His Masterpiece
Raped After School
lucky
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Not Alone
You had no rights
Finally Healing
The Stepmonster
My story growing up with a secret
גבר אלים וחולני
Multiple Rapes
I Trusted Him
Still Confused
Freshman Year
Letter to My Rapist
Thank you
I was 11
A Scared Little Girl
His Charming Ways
Male Rape Victims Suffer in Silence
No
Never Seemed Worth Telling
Lost In Time
He was a friend
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Not Alone
Mi Esposa
Overtaken Twice
Ex
Sexual harassment
Scared Like Crazy
People You Do Not Know
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
Unsure
I Am Still Standing
Daycare
Halloween Nightmare
My 21st Birthday
My Uncle
Bringing the Stories to Light
Molested by my biological father
Seis Años
Raped in the Air Force
Date Rape
My story
Afraid of Being Judged
Drugged
Scared and Confused
He’s Dead
Victory
לפני 14 שנים
Letter to…
I don’t know what to think
This Is My Story
Overcoming My Story of Rape
There Is Hope For Us
Stranger Rape
After Wedding
Rape
Family
I Said No
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
I Thought I was Safe
Speaking Up for Women
Raped Multiple Times
Fenced In
Doctor Nightmares
Let’s Fight Back With Love
I was just 9.
NYD
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Ms.
My Story
A Lifetime
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I like to think I won’t feel...
Moving on Alone from Rape
What Is Success?
Scars
I will not stay silent
Dream / Recall
My Step Brother Raped Me
Nashville Sweetheart
Stayed Silence
Ready to Share
Aftermath
Inspired
Dad Raped Me
Letter to…
I Want My Life Back
Powerful
My best friends dad
Supposed To Be There
University Bar
You are going to show me how...
My boyfriend of 2 years
Unknown
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Spoke out and got fired
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
He doesn’t even know he raped me
He used me. He left me.
Diana Oakley’s Story
Red Flags
לא יוצאים מזה…
היי
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
A respectable collegue
The Cliche
He Took My Virginity
הטרידו אותי
An Intruder
Raped by ex boyfriend
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
Raped by my boyfriend
Two Friends and Two Boys
Sexually assaulted at 4
The preacher’s son
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Myself
The Summer of 2013
עדיין מציק
06.05.2006
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Am I
I guess it was rape
They asked if I was lying
A person to trust became my worst...
A young mother
Mi Historia
הסיפור שלי…
My Mother’s Albatross
Rock It!

