#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 by Boyfriend
Does the pain ever go away?
I never knew he was Satan
A story never told
my story-and where i “took it”…
He ruined my life
הטרידו אותי
I Was Only 7
Infatuation
My Step Father
Say Something
A Night I Can’t Remember
Incest
Why Me?
My Friend
Drunk and Alone
An Abnormal Reaction
Last Party
Metoo
College Rape
Let Down
I Was Raped as a Child
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Under Age drinking
Asking for advice
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Messed Up
Summer 2019
4 Years Ago
En Enero de 2010
Unethical or illegal?
Healing takes time
Mi Esposa
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Cavemen
My Story of a Gang Rape
Male dancer
A young mother
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
כמוני כמוך
Party Time
יש חיים אחרי אונס
De Los 6 a Los 12
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
What am I doing wrong
You Were Supposed to Be My Protector
Gang Raped
Creepy Grand Uncle
Child Rape
Memories Are Back
My message to all
Literal Hell
My life changed on the day I...
Thank You
Shelter My Soul
The Time I Was Raped
Hospitalized
The First Time
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Scared and Confused
Trying To Help
My Horrific Nightmare
I don’t know who I am
Only Six
Daycare
I Didn’t See It In Time
Broken Girl
Life of Trauma
Growing Past Just Surviving
I Am a Survivor…
Living Nightmare
Blaming Myself
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Unsure
Remember November
How Many Times?
I still see him on campus
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
It Lead to More Memories
Metoo
Never Going To Happen To Me
Online dating
Restoring Innocence
My Trauma(s)
Rude awakening
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
This Is My Story
Too good to be true
Happy Survivor
Dear Coward
Hidden Emotions
Enough Is Enough
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My Story
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
It Was the Second
The Party I Will Never Forget
I was 13
Family rape
One in Four
sexual assault & abuse
Moving on Alone from Rape
To serve and protect, but who will...
Not Alone
Some of my story
Holding My Feelings In
A Beautiful Trap
Raped at 16
My First Time
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Raped in the Air Force
Online Dangers
Different face, but the same monster
Still Haven’t Healed
Rape
Confused for Too Long
ללינור היקרה
Unknown
3 Generations
Weak
It’s my fault
I’m so sorry
A Life of Pain
Shelter My Soul
Drunken Rape
Never the Same
My Story
An older cousin
Too naïve
3 Times is Not Charming
Don’t Know
It never stops changing you
Inspired
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Once Again
היי לינור
Workplace Sexual Harassment
A Victim No Longer
Raped
Childhood abuse and acquaintance rape
I was raped
I Thought It Was My Fault
The Statistics that Changed Me
Attempted Rape
We go to the same church
Raped by my step father
Worst Day Ever
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
Victimization
Start of grooming at 15
Raped by Brother
blackmailed
Over 40 years Ago
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Middle school sexual harassment
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
היי
Rape or Not?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Forever Silent
Thank You
Domestic Abuse
Think About It Everyday
ללינור היקרה
I lost all the important people in...
I thought he was a friend
Molested by my biological father
Mi Historia
It can happen to boys too!
Freshman Year
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Football Player
3 Different Times
Repressed Memory
Nobody believed me
Your truth will change someones’ life.
I Am Brave
There is hope
Rape Shaming
An Embarrassing Situation
Sexually Assaulted or Not?
A Year After
I Was Dating Him
Raped by my boyfriend
Afraid of Being Judged
my story
Rape at 15
Roommates
Raped By 6 Men
lucky
Sex doll
It’s my fault
Girl Raped By a Girl
Brother in Law
What Was I Thinking?
It’s my fault
לא יוצאים מזה…
Tormented
Blamed myself …
Help!! What Can I Do?
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
J’avais 13 ans
Twice a pattern?
My secret
Seis Años
Molested as a Child
It never stopped
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Being Raped
Raped By 6 Policemen
Sexual Assault
Kibbutz
Sleep Over
Night of Psychedelic Horror
The Statistics that Changed Me
Date Raped
I was carrying his daughter.
Michelle Johnston
Broken
Gang Rape
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Deceit of family friend
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
This could never happen to me
Spoke out and was blamed
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Sexual Assault
Isn’t Any Proof
Did I ask for this?
Why Me?
A respectable collegue
The Night That Changed My Life
My Rape
Multiple Rapes
Raped By My Therapist
Raped by my Step Brother
אוףףףף
Despedida
I was 4 yrs old
Another kid raped me
I know when I see a rapist...
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Rock It!


