#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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The Statistics that Changed Me
Naive
Rape
My Boss Raped Me
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Learning to Live With My Rape
Finding My Voice
Friends Uncle
Panic Attack
גבר אלים וחולני
Ex-Boyfriend
I Want to Live
Unhealthy Relationship
A Self Destructive Life
Finally ready to tell my story
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
My story growing up with a secret
Continue to Survive
My Ongoing Journey
Just a Joke
Childhood rape
I am a survivor
“I should do this more often”
*rape
College Rape
הטרידו אותי
Beyond a story
April 19th
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
When Does It End
Date Rape
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
#MeToo 5 years later…
I Barely Knew Them
Being Done
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Summer 2019
Blamed Myself
Enough Is Enough
My Mother’s Albatross
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Football Player
Two Times
This Is My Story
This is my story
Spoke out and was blamed
My Rape Stories
Healing from Incest
Gang rape
Raped by my step fathers
23 year old virgin
J’avais 13 ans
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Sexually abused by my step brothers
The children are the priority here
Ashly’s story
I should have STOPPED
Raped and Molested
Find Your Strength
And It Continues
Rape in supported accomodation
At the Movie’s
A Private College; A Private Rape
silent rape
Alcohol
Army
3rd Grade Boys
I didn’t say no
My “Step-father”
Life Purpose
Football Player
Years later… meeting my rapist again
My First Time Speaking Up
Speaking Up for Women
3 Times is Not Charming
De Los 6 a Los 12
Always the Girls Fault
Relationship does not equal consent
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Not normal
He Was a Cop
I Thought I Was Safe
I was 17 and survived
Sex doll
A respectable collegue
Childhood Rape
כמוני כמוך
My Brother
Hidden Emotions
I Never Thought
3 Times is Not Charming
My Brother’s Best Friend
Messed Up
Will I ever get over it.
Does “No” mean nothing?
Halloween 2014
Online Dangers
My Daughter
Broken to Bold
It Kills Me
I Trusted Him…
“No” is Universal
Freshman on Campus
Raped in the Air Force
After 14 Years
They will never know what they did...
Not just me
Mi Historia
Identity?
My Story
Don’t Want to Anymore
Twice
Male dancer
Harder Than Expected
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
Just Words
Repressed Memory
Six months in the making..
my story-and where i “took it”…
Seis Años
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Drugged
Because of You
I Feel So Betrayed
All Just Too Much
Molestation
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
Shame Destroys
When I Was 4
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
April 19th
My Story, My Nightmare
So Now What?
Bartender Lies
Alcohol
In NYC
I was raped
Pretty Girls
The Night That Changed My Life
I know when I see a rapist...
Sexually assaulted at 4
Methed for Math Teacher
I Never Give Up

