#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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Drugged
3 Generations
Fraternity Men
I Thought I was Safe
The abuser
In Denial of My Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My trauma and its effects
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Faded Memories
Lost Soul
“Me too” On Facebook
Victim of Abuse
The Park
1 hour 3 days
Scars That Heal
Dee Bhagwanji
My Story
Forced, De-flowered
Husband raped? Well people don’t call it...
Abused since I was young
STRONG
By my friend
Breaking the Trust
God Saved Me
College Rape
My Horrific Nightmare
My “Step-father”
Molestation
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Warning
My Daughter
Dirty Whore
Not Sure It Happened
The First Time
J’avais 13 ans
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Boyfriend Hell
One Day At a Time
So Now What?
Nothing for Nothing
Incest
When I Was 7
Date Raped When I Was 15
Myself
הטרידו אותי
I Trusted Him
Just Words
I dont know what to call it
Ex Boyfriend
This is MY story
Victim No More
James
Seis Años
A Lifetime
The Statistics that Changed Me
I am a Survivor
I’m the Slut. I Must’ve Wanted It.
Survivor, Still Struggling
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Did He Rape Me?
אוףףףף
The Woods Don’t Speak
Night walk at community center
3 years on
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Raped At 15
ללינור היקרה
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Raped in the Air Force
The Beginning
Thank you for being LOUD!
From Grief to Trauma
Kidnapped
My Tramatic Experience
I was just 9.
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Lost In Time
not the typical rape
It was in a society that told...
Unethical or illegal?
First Love to Long Term Abuse
Always the Girls Fault
Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
Welcome To Adulthood
Today, I Let It All Go
His Charming Ways
I Was Only 7
An Embarrassing Situation
Once Again
Forgiving My Rapist
Don’t Know
I Recorded my Rapist
He Was My Friend
לא יוצאים מזה…
My Story
לפני 14 שנים
Friend?
weird brother
Summer 2019
My Host-sisters friend
Freshman on Campus
Leaving the party
Over 40 years Ago
Assault
Memories Are Back
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Kidnapped and Raped
Doesn’t Define Me
First Time Sharing
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Raped by a work colleague
Mistaken Identity
Stuck
Black and Blue
Even Lawyers Get Raped
Manipulation
Since Age 6?
The pain that was never mine to...
Broken
It never goes away
Many Years Ago
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
April 19th
I trusted him
Gang molestation
Fear
My story
My Story
Drugged
Empty
What If I Make You?
“You’re both minors”
My Brother
Sexual assault
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
my story
Undertones Throughout My Life
Multiple Rapes
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Not a safe place after all
לפני 14 שנים
Raped and Molested
Multiple Times
Lightening Does Strike Twice
En Enero de 2010
Nirbhaya “ fearless”: Justice for the Brutal...
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Unspoken
Raped Three Times
What Is Success?
Never Wanted to Believe
This is MY story
Why Me?
Where did I go?
Unsure
Healing and releasing painful memories
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Pain
I was raped
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
Ms.
Together, We Are Brave
