#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 story growing up with a secret
Summer 2019
The Devil You Know
Start of grooming at 15
Assault, Battery, and Rape
A respectable collegue
My Nightmare
Ms.
Scared
So drunk I can’t remember
We Stand Together
I called him my friend
Chaos
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
intruder
Holding My Feelings In
Blamed Myself
Breaking the Trust
Metoo
Six Years of Denial
Rape…..or not?
Nothing important…
Glad To Say I’m A Survivor
First Time Sharing
Sexual Abuse
Life of Trauma
How Many Times?
Trauma
Who Is To Blame?
A story of a not so perfect...
“Trust me, take a chance”
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
16 times
Betrayed By a Loved One
“Me too” On Facebook
Once Again
It was not my fault
My story
Unforgiven
After Wedding
Overcome It
Was it rape?
Scammer
Prom’s ideals
Ashly’s story
Is this normal?
Finally Using My Voice
Why Me Over and Over?
All Just Too Much
Black Girl
Survivor

Friend of mines set me up
Ignored For a Lifetime
My Beloved Man
My Brothers Two Best Friends
Sexual Assault
The Story Of Two Rapes
Myself
Rape Is Everywhere
Ready to Share
Rape
Hidden But Not Forgotten
Scared to close my eyes
ללינור היקרה
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Dirty Whore
Online dating
Is Healing Possible?
Naive
I didn’t think she would do this
Katie Jones
New Years Eve Party
Former partner would berate me
Stronger Every Day
Nearly 50 years later
Growth
Too naïve
My first love
New Year’s Eve Party
Restoring Innocence
Never a Victim; Only Myself
Invictus
Felt safe in my friend group
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
Date Rape
Justice
High School Orientation
Was It Rape
Drugged
Years in Denial
Didn’t Know Until Later
I don’t Know, but I Know
I Was Only 7
He over stepped the mark
Michael B. raped me
My Mother’s Albatross
I can say it now
Lying Child Molester
I dont know what to call it
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
He’s Still Out There
Rape
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Multiple Rapes
Trying To Help
Did I ask for this?
The Summer of 2013
Stolen innocence
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
The Cliche
I wanted to get high
Sexual Assault Does NOT Define You
The pain that was never mine to...
The times when rape culture has got...
Just Words
עדיין מציק
My Story
Forced, De-flowered
My Mother was raped and told me...
I Never Thought
2 Years Ago
It Happens All Too Often
I Woke Up In The Tub
My First Time
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
In The Past
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
A Lifetime
היי
What’s Done Is Done
Was I assaulted?
De Los 6 a Los 12
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Only I get to make choices for...
My first boyfriend in the US
I regret not telling
To the men who hurt me
לא יוצאים מזה…
Too naïve
My Story
Childhood rape
When will it be enough?
It Started with my Brother
כמוני כמוך
Make Me Proud
Raped
Was It Rape
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Males can be victims too
My “Teammate” Raped Me
Salted Wound
My Story
A Loss to Mankind
Mi Historia
My Father’s Funeral
Twice
Spoke out and was blamed
Sexual Assault??
הסיפור שלי…
Someone so close to me
You Must Acknowledge
10 years later I realised
Erase and Rewind
Raped By 6 Men
27 Hours
What Was It?
Breaking the Silence

