#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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Rape
My abuse story victim to survivor
Love and Forced abortion
היי לינור
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Rape
I was a child
The Man Who Never Was
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
Rape
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
You Didn’t Break Me
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Rape Story
Disappointed
Sexual Abuse
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Childhood Abuse
No Stranger
Dear My Rapist
Raped in the Air Force
14 year old raped at school
I don’t know what to think
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
Because of You
Two Times
Survivor of COCSA
Me Too!
Just Words
Nearly 50 years later
Seis Años
Being Done
One in Four
Halloween Nightmare
My Two Rapes
Sex doll
When I was 4
Becoming a Warrior
Rape
my story
When will it be enough?
Erase and Rewind
יש חיים אחרי אונס
All Just Too Much
Why Me Over and Over?
Why does this keep happening to me?
So drunk I can’t remember
Long way back
Is this normal?
My sisters boyfriend abused me
Incest & Date Rape
A Meek Young Girl
He Was My Boyfriend
I Said No
I Said No
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
כמוני כמוך
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
עדיין מציק
Sexual Assault
Date Rape
Rape
Lasting Effects
I called him my friend
Is Healing Possible?
הטרידו אותי
Piano Teacher
Why Me Over and Over?
An Abnormal Reaction
The Night That Changed My World
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Male dancer
My Rape
#IStandWithHer
I’ve lost my trust with men
My Biggest Secret
This is MY story
First Friend at University
The First Man Who Broke My Heart
Date Rape
Twice a pattern?
Confused and Angry
Young and Innocent
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
I Was Only 7
Dear Convicted Sex Offender (Finally)
I Was Only 7
I’m Not Easy
Moving on Alone from Rape
University Bar
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Braver

Childhood Rape
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
Faded Memories
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Despedida
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Was i raped?!
Warning
3x
Drugged
Hostage
Black and Blue
innocent
My Snowball Effect
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Silence In The Family
A respectable collegue
Mi Historia
Raped by my boyfriend
It Was the Second
Frozen in fear
It was just a friend date
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
Raped Three Times
Repeat Offender
Living With Us
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
I know when I see a rapist...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Touched
raped and isolated
Pretty Girls
So Much Pain Its Overwhelming
A Night To Remember
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
The Summer of 2013
Seeing My Rapist Everday
My principal mom raped me
Date Rape
Unsure
Freshman Year
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Second Date
Unbelievable
Party Time
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
3 incidents
Mi Esposa
The Day Everything Changed
Serial Rapist
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Ms.
Happy Birthday
Him or Me
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
@ years of rape and being drugged
No Means No
I want my innocence back
so forceful
I Woke Up In The Tub
Shedding the Shame of Adolescent Peer Sexual...
My Story, My Nightmare
Party Accident
I didn’t say no
Someone You Know
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Victim Shaming
Confusion
That’s not what friend means
Healing
Date rape
Feeling Dirty
Stronger Than You Think
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
Spoke out and was blamed
It never goes away
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Step Dad
But what really happened?
I Accepted My Past
ללינור היקרה
Rape??
Rape or Not?
I am a survivor
Today, I Let It All Go
Date Raped When I Was 15
En Enero de 2010
Too many to stop it
My best friend raped me
Teatime
I was raped
Set Up
Raped by Him
Loss of Trust
Scar
Today, I Let It All Go
Growth
Still Lost :/
Too naïve
Afraid
Can Anyone Help?
Why Me Over and Over?
Summer 2019
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Not friends
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Six months in the making..
אוףףףף
Drugged and Gang Raped
My Mom
גבר אלים וחולני
Raped By My Partner
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
De Los 6 a Los 12
Justice
He’s Dead
He was my younger brothers friend
Stress
Metoo
Politeness Serves No One
Out of Control
Aftermath
I was kidnapped, beaten, knocked out and...
My Own Street
I Was Raped
Memories Are Back
I loved him
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Sexual Abuse
Another kid raped me
He Took My Virginity
Years later… meeting my rapist again
He ruined my life
The Night It All Changed
Spousal Rape
Sexual molestation as a child
Six months in the making..
Metoo
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
My First Boyfriend
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Why Me?
Endless Shame
Beyond a story
I Don’t Even Know His Name
I Said No
Planned Rape
I Thought He Loved Me
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Emotional Abuse
Date Rape
Not Guilty
Raped After Work
Abuse Continued
Suffered and Survived
Useless tears
Finding Words
Forever Silent
Through the Window
הסיפור שלי…
J’avais 13 ans
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My 21st Birthday
Brother & Sister
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Abused By A Therapist
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Confronting My Step-Father
Rape
Rape
Friends Uncle
When will it be enough?
Hard Time
Light In The Dark
The Statistics that Changed Me
Drunken rape
Incest
Raped by stranger x2
it was 1 am
Date rape
Cruel Kids
Happy Survivor
A familiar fight
לפני 14 שנים
Family members ex husband
3 Generations
Shelter My Soul
Unethical or illegal?
Multiple Assaults
I blamed myself for so long
Say Something
Stolen innocence
Where is Justice
My “Step-father”
Surviving sexual assault trauma
My 21st Birthday
Child Rape
My story growing up with a secret
The Stepmonster
#metoo
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Do you remember your first time?
My Story, My Nightmare
An Abnormal Reaction
Was It Real or Not
When I Was 7
i was a child.
blackmailed
Raped By a Friend
Sexual Assault
College Rape
Survivor
