#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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My Own Street
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Tulane Law
Red Flags
Thank you for being LOUD!
Party Assault
Forgiving The Rapist
I Trusted Him…
Ex Best Friend
Too naïve
Happy Survivor
Still Need Help
Drunk and Alone
My Brothers Two Best Friends
A respectable collegue
I Thought He Cared
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Every Way Imaginable
My Last Party
Sexual Abuse
What am I doing wrong
3 balls, striking
5th Grade
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Raped By a Female
Did He Rape Me?
I Was Only 7
Scars
Family Secrets
A Lifetime
My Story
My survival story
Trauma
Don’t Want to Anymore
I Am Not Brave
I am a survivor
Short Story
הטרידו אותי
April 19th
So Long Ago
Happy Hell-oween
Feeling Alone
Sexual Assault
Stolen innocence
Childhood Rape
Why
An older, popular boy
A Nightmare
Dirty Whore
Multiple Times
Was it my fault?
En Enero de 2010
Never Be the Same Again
It can happen to boys too!
Taking Back My Life
A Silent Fighter
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Because of You
Sex doll
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
I am More than a Victim
Broken vase
Erase and Rewind
Why me
What Is Success?
My story growing up with a secret
Raped and Molested
Workplace Sexual Harassment
7 years and it still controls me
Raped and Molested
Black and Blue
I was used. I got left. I...
It Was Too Late
So Many Times
In The Concrete Jungle
When will it be enough?
My Relationship With Dad
Broken to Bold
A Private College; A Private Rape
A Message from the Director

Blaming Myself
Naïve
Third time’s the charm
I Trusted You
Does the pain ever go away?
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Still Can’t Believe It
What Can I Do
I’m Disgusted
My boyfriend
Is this normal?
7th Grade Assault
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
The Party I Will Never Forget
Inspired
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
The Life I Live
University Bar
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
One in Four
Summer 2019
Confusion
Raped By Boyfriend
I lost myself before I even knew...
Scared
An Orphanage
I Thought I Was Safe
Sexual assault
Rape by Boyfriend
So drunk I can’t remember
What Was I Thinking?
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
I Never Give Up
