#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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Just Words
My Best Friend
Rape?
Touching
My Story.
He raped me. I hugged him goodbye...
Family Ties
My experience as an intern in highschool
Sexually Assaulted Or Not?
Life Changer
Was it rape ?
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
My Story
Raped
I Thought He Was My Friend
Ended in Rape
Years later… meeting my rapist again
The Little Girl in Green and Blue...
Proud
Raped in the Air Force
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Un-Silenced
I am More than a Victim
לא יוצאים מזה…
Gang rape
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
The First Time
The Power of Victimization
Cruel Kids
Was led by the quarterback
De Los 6 a Los 12
Travel
More Than a Survivor
My Story
Rape
עדיין מציק
Together, We Are Brave

Just little girls
Rape of My Partner
A respectable collegue
Surviving my father
My Relationship With Dad
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
It wasn’t my fault
Bartender Lies
Rape
My Year in Hell
Confused for Too Long
Spousal Rape
Rape
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Don’t Give Up

The pain that was never mine to...
Summer 2019
Family Secrets
I think I was raped
You Must Acknowledge
Halloween Nightmare
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I “needed” to do this!
Blackout
Family rape
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Nobody Knew
Denial
My Life History
Breaking the Trust
One Bad Decision
Rape??
Working Through It
Erase and Rewind
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
The year that changed me
Boyfriend Hell
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
How to handle it
My Brother
Six Years of Denial
Men ruined my life
Short Story
My Past
Survivor

Family Ties
Twice
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Love of My Life?
Piece
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
I didn’t break up with him back...
Nearly 50 years later
In Korea
Rock It!

Ashamed of myself
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Sexual Assault
Growth
So drunk I can’t remember
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Roofied
Never Lose Hope
More Than a Survivor
Step Dad
Third time’s the charm
13 and Raped
My Story
Think About It Everyday
It’s A Long Story
Molestation
Locked Up
A Different MeToo
Multiple Times
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Help
Through the Window
Gang Raped
Raped by my grandfather
My Snowball Effect
Multiple Sexual Assaults
A Scared Little Girl
That Night
My boyfriend of 2 years
Are you sure?
Night of Psychedelic Horror
My Last Party
היי לינור
Two times. One year.
University Bar
Afraid of Being Judged
Just Hanging Out
Piano Teacher
Roommates
Rape
A story of a not so perfect...
Naïve
Continue to Survive
Seis Años
I don’t know what to do
Frozen in fear
The Devil You Know
Nothing important…
Cousin Rape
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Army
Help
Mi Esposa
Hidden Emotions
Date rape
Breaking the Silence

