#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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I can’t remember if I said yes...
Around 9 PM
LOST
My Boyfriend
My Friend’s House
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Black and Blue
Don’t Want to Anymore
No one owns your story but you
First Friend at University
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
לא יוצאים מזה…
Too Scared to Share With My Family
Friends?
Holding It In
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Date Rape
Incest
I don’t know anymore
Trying To Help
I don’t Know, but I Know
Rape
weird brother
I Was Only 7
Denial
It’s A Long Story
Sexually abused by a 11/12 girl
Males can be victims too
Army
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Young and Unaware
He Was a Family Friend
LOST
My Ongoing Journey
My Brother’s Best Friend
Ended in Rape
He Was My Boyfriend
My Story
Life of Trauma
Raped Multiple Times
I Thought I was Safe
Afraid of Being Judged
How Could It Have Happened
Innocence
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
הטרידו אותי
Longest Prayers of My Life
Endless Shame
7 years and it still controls me
My so called “best friend”
Guilt and Shame Almost Killed
I Thought I Was Safe
Summer 2019
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Own Sister
Raped
Speaking out for the first time in...
More Than a Survivor
My biggest mistake
The Statistics that Changed Me
No Longer Keeping the Peace
Ashly’s story
Why I Hate My Family
A Lifetime of pain
He Stole Something From Me
אוףףףף
I know when I see a rapist...
Rape survivor
Me Too!
My Journey as a Rape survivor from...
My Daughter
I am a survivor
Alcohol
Not A Trustworthy Man
Over 40 years Ago
כמוני כמוך
גבר אלים וחולני
ללינור היקרה
Trusted Friend
He Took Advantage of Me
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Raped After School
Proof, but no Witnesses
Can Someone Help Me!
Rape?
My Story
It started with you.
Despedida
This Is My Story
Raped by my boyfriend
It will get better
Stranger
Sexual Assault
Afraid of Being Judged
My Mother’s Albatross
Prom Night
Just Another Night
Public Rape
לפני 14 שנים
My Own Brother
I Am Brave
I can say it now
I still see him on campus
LOST
Abused at the Age of 4
So drunk I can’t remember
עדיין מציק
Piano Teacher
i was pulling my shorts up
Digging my own grave
Was It Rape?
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Metoo
Spoke out and got fired
37 Years Ago
When I Was 8 Years Old
Night Out
Rock It!

Rape
I didn’t break up with him back...
A Journal of a Wayward Child
היי לינור
To protect and serve
Unethical or illegal?
Growing Past Just Surviving
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
Keep it to myself
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Our Corrupted Country
Sex doll
Michelle Johnston
Years later… meeting my rapist again
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I didn’t break up with him back...
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
My story
One week and three days
My Life, My Achievement
Ketamine Rape
An older, popular boy
Rape
Still Rape
My survival story
Silent Rape
Drugged
Brave
My posting
Not Okay
לפני 14 שנים
I am not a rape victim
Through the Window
In Front of My Girls
3 incidents
Mi Esposa
Rape
It never goes away
En Enero de 2010
You Were My Friend
So Many Times
Drunken Rape
What’s Done Is Done
I dont know what to call it
Sexual Assault
I got away
My story growing up with a secret
De Los 6 a Los 12
“Me too” On Facebook
I met evil at a young age
Never Even Knew
Last Party
I didn’t fight back.
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Just a Child
Broken
This Is Me, my fight song
My Cousin
I’m Confused
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Virgin Rape
Sleepraping
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
Speaking Out
He’s Dead
Stayed Silence
Ms.
Too naïve
Raped in the Air Force
Unsure
I Never Thought
Graduation Night
Weathering The Storm
Was it rape?
My Rape
הסיפור שלי…
My Best Friend’s Husband Raped Me
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Happy Birthday
Growth
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Just Words
Seis Años
Childhood Trauma
Lesbian After Assaults
היי
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Stong Woman
My Daughter
Spousal Rape
Deja Vu
The Hole in My Heart
יש חיים אחרי אונס
My Story
Date Rape
Goodbye Virginity
I wanted to get high
Trapped
My Rape
Someone so close to me
Running With Bare Feet
Never Be the Same Again
A Different MeToo
Brock and Will
In Korea
MY Inspirational Story
Raped By 6 Policemen
School Prom
Relationship does not equal consent
Harder Than Expected
Is It Rape When It’s Your Husband??
I Trusted Him
I’m Disgusted
Didn’t Know I Had Been Raped
High School Orientation
Spoke out and was blamed
No one owns your story but you
Date rape
An Unknown Face & Hands
Naive
I didn’t say “no”
Kind of Asking For It?
Help
Moving on Alone from Rape
New Years Eve Party
I Never Give Up
