#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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Proof, but no Witnesses
Neighbors
Will I ever get over it.
I Thought He Was My Friend
The Boys Club Continues
Life of Trauma
My story growing up with a secret
I called him my friend
Raped By Family Member
The Most Vivid Distant Memories
Man Raped By Man
A person to trust became my worst...
Sexually assaulted several times
My story!
Too Many Times
Not all friends are true
Family Member
I should have never meet my biological...
I Can Barely Remember
Getting Away
De Los 6 a Los 12
Silence In The Family
Blamed Myself
Simply My Story
I Came Home
Letter to My Rapist
Why?
Getting Better
Alone and Afraid
Scared and Confused
First Time
University Bar
When will it be enough?
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Afraid of Being Judged
Childhood/teenage sexually abuse
Forced, De-flowered
In The Past
Despedida
Raped When I Was 12
Multiple Sexual Assaults
En Enero de 2010
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
Raped by Him
A Year After
I Didn’t See It In Time
Perfect on Paper
It will get better
2 Years Ago
My rapist sent me a friend request...
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Disappointed
Myself
Made in America
The Boys Club Continues
Rape of My Partner
sexual assault & abuse
Sexual Assault
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
הטרידו אותי
13 and 16
Years in Denial
Blackout
rape
Trying to Survive
Holiday Rape
Friends Uncle
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
I Am Beautiful Now
כמוני כמוך
Raped by Him
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Finally ready to tell my story
Too naïve
I am 1 in 4
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Mi Historia
Date Rape
A Letter to My Rapist
When I Was Three
Never Wanted to Believe
Rape
Two times. One year.
He Was My Boyfriend
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Why Me?
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
I Came Home
My Husband Set Me Up!
Nothing for Nothing
My Rape
Sex doll
I still see him on campus
Braver

Rape
Ashamed
I Too Was Raped
Mi Esposa
My Horrific Nightmare
Supposed To Be There
What If I Make You?
Rape
Rock It!

School Rape
The Girl Who Went To College
By my friend
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
יש חיים אחרי אונס
My Mother Was Raped
Started With My Father
My story
I Was Only 7
Intruded
Molested
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
When I Was 7
Does the pain ever go away?
First Time
I Dated My Rapists
Drunken Rape
Learning to Live With My Rape
Twice
You are going to show me how...
Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I Am More Than It
לא יוצאים מזה…
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Afraid of the Truth
Abuse and Rape
Rape
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Sexual Abuse
Devil In Disguise
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
How Many Times?
Six months in the making..
My Side
Brothers
I Never Give Up


