#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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It was just a friend date
I “needed” to do this!
Too naïve
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Not friends
Losing My Virginity
With Love
Ms.
Sex doll
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I want my innocence back
Keeping Faith
Bad Morning
לפני 14 שנים
Drunken rape
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Deacon abused for reporting
Becoming a Warrior
A story of a not so perfect...
First Frat Party
Why did this happen to me???
Realization of Rape
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Raped By Family
Raped in the Air Force
Not all friends are true
So Now What?
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Mental Breakdown
My Story
Are you sure?
my story-and where i “took it”…
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
גבר אלים וחולני
Raped By a Friend
It’s my fault
Scar
Michelle Johnston
The Statistics that Changed Me
Help !
my story
Seis Años
Online dating
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Sexual Assault
Raped twice within a few hours
A Voice to be Heard
Stop
I Was 19
I Was Raped as a Child
Still Think It Was My Fault
April 19th
Finally Arrested
Nightmare
The Stepmonster
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Denial
My teacher and my step-brother
I was 11
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
A night gone wrong
Mi Historia
Throughout my teen years
Living Nightmare
Abused By A Therapist
Not like the rape you always hear...
Despedida
A respectable collegue
Knowledge is Power
Repressed Memory
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
הטרידו אותי
The Statistics that Changed Me
Prey
To this day I still feel sick…
Spoke out and was blamed
my story-and where i “took it”…
Loss of Innocence
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Healing from Incest
Sex doll
Family
First College Party
J’avais 13 ans
Date rape
Surpris à la Maison
One Day At a Time
I am a Survivor
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Rape and the Aftermath
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Letter to My Rapist
Love of My Life?
הסיפור שלי…
He’s Still Out There
The Life I Live
Murky Memories
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
I was raped and didn’t know
SA in school
Not just me
13 and 16
Drugged and Raped
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
It had to be my fault.
My Story
Drugged
The children are the priority here
Being Raped
New Years Eve Party
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
I Was Only 7
Bus Ride Of Missing Hope
Rape
Still Unable to Tell People
Sex doll
Mi Esposa
He Was Never My Friend
Tormented
This Is My Story
Drugged
Gang Raped
It’s Your Fault
Realization of Rape
Quiet for 2 years
כמוני כמוך
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Afraid of the Truth
Help
Betrayal
היי לינור
He was a friend
The Same Effect
I’m Confused
I Said No
My step dad raped me
I wish I would have been smarter
Molestation
Raped in a Psychiatric Hospital in the...
Frozen in fear
Domestic Rape is Real
Two times. One year.
How to handle it
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Raped in College
my story
Freshman on Campus
My Fight
“Trust me, take a chance”
My Ongoing Journey
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Myself
Believe Her
My rape story
Loss of Innocence
@ years of rape and being drugged
It Was My Fault
Hope for Healing
Date Rape
My Own Street
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
My Life
Multiple Assaults
My Friend’s House
Daycare friend
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
It was just a friend date
Sexual Abuse
Bad Morning
Not Really Love
Why Me?
Men get raped too…
My Story
Say Something
The Touches I Felt
Finally Sharing
Touched
אוףףףף
Kidnapped
לא יוצאים מזה…
Night walk at community center
Moving On
Violent Rape
Raped at the Air Force Academy
The thief
Raped By a Female
4 Years Ago
I Am Beautiful Now
It Started With Rape
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
Never a Victim; Only Myself
Miss
My year abroad
A Memory That Came Back
I Thought I Was Safe
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
dad and mom rape
De Los 6 a Los 12
We met at the bar
He Was My Boyfriend
Molested by my biological father
Knowledge is Power
Was It Me?
High School Rape
Innocence Taken
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Chaos
The Boys Club Continues
LOST
Time Stood Still
Unethical or illegal?
I don’t know if it’s rape
En Enero de 2010
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Happy Survivor
Every one ignored me
I still don’t know what happened
Bleeding Through My Tears
Army
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Leaving the party
All Just Too Much
Too naïve
My Story
He was family
My Mother’s Life Partner Sexually Harrased Me...
Why Me?
He Took My Virginity
Male dancer
Halloween Nightmare
היי
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
I got away
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Rape or Not?
Drugged
Please Rape Me
Just Words
Did I ask for it?
I Am Victorious!
How My Life Has Changed
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Today, I Let It All Go
Sexual Abuse
Date Rape
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Brave
One in Four
The times when rape culture has got...
Life of Trauma
Trauma
Raped By My Biological Father
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
A Literal Fight
April 2015
Dad Raped Me
His name was Kenneth
i was pulling my shorts up
Just a Child
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Survivor of COCSA
Lost in Europe
I know when I see a rapist...
Childhood Rape
Halloween Nightmare
Ashly’s story
I Am Brave!
My story growing up with a secret
Stupid Coward
When I Was Three
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Gang Rape
What If I Make You?
Quarterly Review
Domestic Rape
Two Friends and Two Boys
Don’t Give Up

