#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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A respectable collegue
I Never understood
I wish I would have been smarter
My husband was molested as a child
My Mother’s Life Partner Sexually Harrased Me...
Survivor

My Ongoing Journey
Police Officer/Date Rape
Beyond a story
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Holding My Feelings In
Unspoken
Raped By My Biological Father
A Long Healing Process
Becoming a Warrior
Sex doll
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
My Story
Stayed Silence
I never knew he was Satan
My Horrific Nightmare
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Myself
I Don’t Even Know His Name
Welcome To Adulthood
My Life, My Achievement
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Rape??
ללינור היקרה
Friends Uncle
Sexual assault from my step brother and...
Raped By a Friend
Hostage
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
Ignored
I know when I see a rapist...
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
My stepfather
Domestic rape
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Close of a Brother
Childhood Abuse
It Started with my Brother
En Enero de 2010
I can say it now
“Me too” On Facebook
Today is my time to cry
Need help
Pretty Girls
The Mailman Raped Me
Freshman Year
Camp rape
Did I ask for it?
In Korea
Wanted Love But Got Rape
It still doesn’t feel real…
I was a victim of serious child...
He Was A Police Officer
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Employer rape
I Thought It Was My Fault
כמוני כמוך
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Youth Sexual Harrassment
Way Back in 1973
The Statistics that Changed Me
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
So Now What?
לא יוצאים מזה…
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
Unethical or illegal?
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
I Saved Myself
Older
We met at the bar
He Was a Family Friend
Don’t Be Me
Pedophile Neighbour
Constant fear
My Best Friend
Ms.
Hope after repeated rape
A Self Destructive Life
עדיין מציק
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Seis Años
They Laughed
Lost Soul
Sexual Assault
Friends No Longer
לפני 14 שנים
Nearly 50 years later
I Will Never Forget
Online dating
My Daughter
Some of my story
ללינור היקרה
I was 13
Raped Three Times
Enough Is Enough
Erase and Rewind
Light In The Dark
My Fault or His
Someone so close to me
Rape
7 years and it still controls me
Life Purpose
Harassment
Undertones Throughout My Life
First boyfriend raped me when i was...
Surviving, Kinda
היי
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Two Days of Hell
Life of Trauma
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Surpris à la Maison
Male dancer
Shame Destroys
Letter to My Rapist
Silence
Glitter Girl, Gone.
I Am Brave!
Need help
Too naïve
My Rape
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Date Rape
Drugged raped and failed by justice
my story
Speaking Up
Someone so close to me
Happy Birthday
Mi Esposa
Boyfriend Hell
The First Man In My Life
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
I was raped
Raped by stranger x2
The Aftermath
Why wasn’t I able to say “NO!”?
אוףףףף
My Ex-husband
Victim Impact Statement
Raped by jail guard
I’m 17 and I’m over it
Rape
The Touches I Felt
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
Raped in my own bed
Rape or Not?
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
It Was My Fault
Not Blood Cousins
A Scared Little Girl
I’m 17 and I’m over it
Incest
The Night My Life Changed
My Own Party
Unwanted Flashbacks
הסיפור שלי…
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Summer 2019
Rape
Young and Innocent
I’m Speaking Out!
Rape
You Were Supposed to Be My Protector
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
I’m the Slut. I Must’ve Wanted It.
Young and Unaware
Being Raped
I buried the pain
Nothing important…
Remember November
Now I Understand My Husband
I was assaulted twice at the same...
I Trusted Him
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
The times when rape culture has got...
I was raped
Not Alone
Date Rape
So Now What?
No Wasn’t Good Enough
The Night That Changed My World
17
It never stops changing you
Be Strong
I Too Was Raped
A young mother
This Is Me, my fight song
Raped 14 times in 1 year
I Was Manipulated
Naïve
Nobody Knew
Spoke out and was blamed
Mi Historia
Was It My Fault?
Thank you for being LOUD!
I knew and trusted him
My story growing up with a secret
Everyone loves him
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Doctor Nightmares
Stronger Than You Think
She’s a survivor
Was Told to Shut My God Damn...
Start of grooming at 15
Raped by boyfriend
Date Rape
An older, popular boy
Raped at the Air Force Academy
College Campus Rape
Youth Sexual Harrassment
Still Hurting
Domestic Rape
Army
Stronger Every Day
My story
My step dad raped me
Sexual Assault
Raped and Numbed
Rape
Help
Panic Attack
A Private College; A Private Rape
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
Despedida
Night Out
I Never Give Up

I didn’t know what to do
“No” is Universal
Moving On
My boyfriend of 2 years
So drunk I can’t remember
Sexual Abuse
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Unsure
Hundreds of Times
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
F
my toxic relationship
Dad Raped Me
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
A familiar fight
My Boyfriend Raped Me
I don’t Know, but I Know
Feeling weak
Scared Like Crazy
Childhood trauma
Kidnapped
Infatuation
My First Time
It was not my fault
You’re a Rapist
At 17yr old was raped by my...
גבר אלים וחולני
I Dated My Rapists
I Was Only 7
Second Date
Thought He Was A Friend
It is not my fault
My Rape Stories
Years later… meeting my rapist again
5 Years On
My Story
My “Step-father”
My experience as an intern in highschool
Just Words
Shout Out
Raped at the age of 16
היי לינור
A night gone wrong
dad and mom rape
I said no
Ex Boyfriend
They thought it was fun
De Los 6 a Los 12
Kibbutz
My Side
Virgin Rape
Thank you for being LOUD!
Last Party
Sleep Over
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Hated Myself
Third time’s the charm
My Brave Daughter
I Was Manipulated
A Lifetime of Trauma
He was right
Mi Historia
Different face, but the same monster
PART 1: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Confused and Angry
Love and Forced abortion
I Remember How It Felt
Manipulation
Raped in the Air Force
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Not Blood Cousins
I Am Brave


