#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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Since Age 6?
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Friend of mines set me up
Why does this keep happening to me?
I thought he was a brother
It Was My Fault
He Lied
Mother and Son
Out For A Walk
My Rape
If your boyfriend does it is is...
dad and mom rape
My Story
Friend of my Husband
I am a survivor
Rape, Sexual Abuse
Growing Past Just Surviving
Marital Rape
I’m Not Sure
I didn’t break up with him back...
My Brave Daughter
Raped and Molested
I was raped last summer
I was 17 and survived
My Daughter
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Stronger Every Day
My step dad raped me
Leaving the party
Dee Bhagwanji
“I should do this more often”
My Story
Sexual Assault Does NOT Define You
My Step Brother Raped Me
Black and Blue
It Can Happen To Anyone
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Raped in the Air Force
Broken Hearted
Unspoken
עדיין מציק
He ruined my life
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
She Should Be Over It
One week and three days
Salted Wound
Ride from the Concert
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Young and Unaware
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
Speaking Out
An older cousin
Army
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
My Story of a Gang Rape
אוףףףף
How Many Times?
My year abroad
Raped in my own bed
Afraid of Being Judged
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
7 Months
An Unknown Face & Hands
Date Raped When I Was 15
University Bar
My Own Sister
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Never Forgotten
I Was Only 7
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Seis Años
Child sexual abuse
A night gone wrong
A Stong Woman
Lightening Does Strike Twice
the scary shadows
Shattered Childhood
The abuser
My Best Friend & His Friend Raped...
First College Party
Healing takes time
I know when I see a rapist...
Feels like i am drowning
Rape
Two Strangers in a Park
Taking Back My Life
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
4th grade
Was it rape? Or my fault?
I Trusted Him
Holiday Rape
I’ll Never Be Whole Again
When Father’s Day is Painful
A young mother
Rape and Crisis
Online dating
A Self Destructive Life
Its Got To STOP!
Lost In Time
2 Years Ago
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
Not Over It
The Hole in My Heart
הטרידו אותי
Molested By My Cousin
My principal mom raped me
My Brother
Twice a pattern?
Mi Historia
Ended in Rape
Little Girl
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
It’s my fault
Ms.
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
16 times
Justice Didn’t Help Me
Something I’ve Never Shared
He ignored me
Confused for Too Long
Multiple Assaults
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
You Didn’t Break Me
This is MY story
Never Again
Worthless
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Darkness With Friends
I Am Not Brave
Spoke out and was blamed
Wrong Choice
First Love to Long Term Abuse
Despedida
This Is My Story
Please do not be afraid of being...
I Remember How It Felt
Not normal
Make Me Proud
Rape By Unknown
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Abusers
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
Suppose to Protect Me
Male dancer
Myself
Sex doll
His Masterpiece
Finally facing it
3x
He’s Your Husband, It’s Not Rape
Being Raped
My Ex-husband
I was very dumb.
7th Grade Assault
A Victim No Longer
Senior Trip
Ex
Gang Rape
Drugged
Child sex abuse
Freshman on Campus
Not Okay
Letter to…
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
כמוני כמוך
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
The secret
My story
An Abnormal Reaction
Anal Rape
Made in America
Raped twice within a few hours
Amber’s Story
Too drunk to respond
Why Me Over and Over?
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Out of Control
surviving rape from my dad
He was right
My Mother Was Raped
Mine Was Different
4th of July
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
My Multiple-Offender Rape
He Was A Police Officer
ללינור היקרה
Don’t Know
No means yes to some
Let’s Fight Back With Love
He was 15
Feeling lonely and isolated
My secret
Raped at 13
Unethical or illegal?
A respectable collegue
I was 14
Six months in the making..
Why Halloween Is So Hard For Me
Sexual Abuse
Tel Aviv
Its been Years
I don’t know what happened
I Remember Being Happy
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
This will be painful
A Letter to My Rapist
My Best Friend
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
היי
Had Her Back
Asking for advice
More Than a Survivor
I’m Disgusted
Mi Esposa
Why Me Over and Over?
He doesn’t even know he raped me
We had sex before
I Am Brave

Did I ask for this?
Sexual Assault
15
My Story
En Enero de 2010
The Friend
Never Wanted to Believe
Thank you for being LOUD!
my story
Sexually assaulted at 4
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
My Nightmare
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
I’m finally letting my hurt out
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Childhood Horror
So Young
Life Purpose
Weathering The Storm
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
I Want to Live
To my best friend who raped me
Halloween Nightmare
גבר אלים וחולני
I am More than a Victim
I was 13, he was my first...
Don’t Give Up

