#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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Drunk and taken advantage of
Help!! What Can I Do?
Did I ask for it?
Trapped
My Rape
De Los 6 a Los 12
Raped by best friend’s boyfriend
Just Another Night
The Hole in My Heart
Trusted Friend
Date Rape
In Five Years
I Remember How It Felt
Do I even belong here?
Blaming Myself
7 years and it still controls me
My Best Friend & His Friend Raped...
Miss
I still don’t know what happened
Fenced In
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
It Was the Second
Set Up
Six months in the making..
Bringing the Stories to Light
A respectable collegue
Living Nightmare
My Story
Scar
That wasn’t too bad now was it?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
No Wasn’t Good Enough
I Had No Idea…
Not My Friend
Not Okay
Second Date
Just Words
My sisters boyfriend abused me
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
I Remember Being Happy
Blaming Myself
Confused
So drunk I can’t remember
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Army
Multiple Times
Being Raped
Justice Didn’t Help Me
Today is my time to cry
Life of Trauma
University Bar
One Day At a Time
Raped in the Air Force
The Boys Club Continues
Too Afraid To Tell
I Don’t Trust My Father
Torn
My Friend’s House
Is There Still Hope
Over 40 years Ago
Unicorns
J’avais 13 ans
Sexual Assault
Wrong Choice
Effort To Survive
Still Going
Last Year
My Last Party
The Same Effect
Set Up
I didn’t break up with him back...
It’s my fault
My childhood
גבר אלים וחולני
היי לינור
Lasting Effects
Scarred for life
I Thought I was Safe
It never stops changing you and thats...
Rape
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
A Loss to Mankind
Sexual Abuse
I didn’t know
Lesbian After Assaults
was raped and I don’t remember it
i hate myself for thinking its my...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
7 Months
Raped by my boyfriend
Trapped In a Fantasy World
My Fault or His
He Took My Virginity
Erase and Rewind
This is MY story
My Life Changed
Was I really raped?
הטרידו אותי
Three weeks, every day..
My Story
my story
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Rape by family
Tulane Law
He Was a Cop
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Sex doll
Stranger Danger, Yeah Right.
He took it as yes
Shedding the Shame of Adolescent Peer Sexual...
I Recorded my Rapist
Did I ask for it?
The Night That Changed My World
Assault?
I Want to Live
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
Blamed myself …
I was used. I got left. I...
Unethical or illegal?
The Party
My rape story
Rape
Thank You
Ashamed
Raped by Him
Metoo
Broken Trust
Victim No More
Had Her Back
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT WORK
I am a Rape Survivor
Sexual Coercion
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
First Crush
Dad Raped Me
Life of Trauma
Two times. One year.
Sexual harassment
Myself
No Longer Silent
The Boys Club Continues
Summer 2019
Rape Shaming
Literal Hell
Lotus
Too naïve
Choir Camp
Just Wanted to Escape
Ms.
Not safe in my own skin
I am not a rape victim
Rock It!

The Girl Who Went To College
My best friend
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Life of Trauma
Why me?
Family
My Father
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Still Going
I regret not telling
Drugged
army
I don’t know anymore
My story growing up with a secret
Be Strong
In Denial of My Rape
Incest
Trying to Survive
Lost Soul
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
A Literal Fight
My story!
Fear
Isn’t Any Proof
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Together, We Are Brave

My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Best Friend
Help
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
הטרידו אותי
What Can I Do
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
Digging my own grave
Broken
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
sexual assault & abuse
Scars
I know when I see a rapist...
4th grade
Shelter My Soul
The Terrible 4
Teatime
Blackout
הסיפור שלי…
In Denial of My Rape
עדיין מציק
We were both 10.
What Is Happening
Family
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
sexual assault
Chaos
My step dad raped me
My Snowball Effect
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Its Got To STOP!
Someday Soon
Date Rape
Despedida
Deep Scars
My first boyfriend in the US
Not Sure It Happened
Drunken rape
It Wasn’t Love
This is MY story
Boyfriend Hell
Hope after repeated rape
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Afraid
Thank you
Life Purpose
Molestation
Less than a Minute of my Life
If I Were Stronger Then
17
Why you should talk to your daughters...
College Campus Rape
Mental Breakdown
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
לא יוצאים מזה…
Just Friends
Be Careful Who You Trust
Seis Años
He Loved Me
לפני 14 שנים
Keep it to myself
Rape
Thank you for being LOUD!
blackmailed
Thought He Was A Friend
3x
Family members ex husband
The Setup
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
he made me loose hope in love…
When Will This Nightmare End
Sexually assaulted several times
Raped as a child and teen
What Is Success?
Spoke out and was blamed
Male dancer
A horror that lasts a lifetime
Drunken Rape
Gang Rape
raped by my own brother
Was Once a Best Friend
Six Years of Denial
Mi Esposa
Don’t Know
3x
Impacted Forever
Marital Rape
I Too Was Raped
My ex’s best friend
I think I was raped
The Night That Changed Me
כמוני כמוך
I Was Only 14
אוףףףף
Breaking the Silence
