#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. Womenโs 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
Spousal Rape
My 21st Birthday
Say Something
Cousin Rape
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
I know when I see a rapist...
Happy Survivor
Losing my virginity
Raped by my step father
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
Childhood abuse and acquaintance rape
Raped in the Air Force
I Thought He Cared
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Rubbing my scars
ืืืื ืืจ ืืืงืจื
Why does this keep happening to me?
Sex doll
Scammer
Was led by the quarterback
It never goes away
By my friend
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
A Family Affair
2 Years Ago
I Was Raped
The pain that was never mine to...
My best friends dad
Ms.
Impact of Screening
Rape in my locked home
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Its been Years
Ketamine Rape
Just Words
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
Rape
Thank you
Suffered and Survived
A Story
Ya perdonรฉ pero nunca olvido
ืืืืจ, ืืืืื, ืื ืฆื
Couch Surfing
Charity is it’s own reward
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
Scar
Raped At 15
Fenced In
Nightmare
Lost My Virginity In Rape By Jehovah’s...
Wide awake
Why you should talk to your daughters...
My Best Friend’s Brother
Myself
Playing House
I still don’t know what happened
Sexual Assault
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Uncomfortable
My Best Friend’s Brother
My Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
Raped By a Female
Bus Ride
My Two Rapes
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
This is MY story
Raped By a Friend
Rape inside marriage is still rape…
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
6 to 20
MesS Into A mesSage
My best friend
What am I doing wrong
My Own Party
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Panic Attack
Justice
It Wasn’t Love
The Fight We Can All Win
Forgotten Memories Submerge
I was a child
Finding My Voice
Don’t Know
Becoming a Warrior
Why Me?
Molested
Abused By a Relative
Manipulation
Army
My Rape
Simply My Story
innocent
An Unknown Face & Hands
I Too Was Raped
My Year in Hell
ืขืืืื ืืฆืืง
16 times
Rape
3 incidents
My message to all
Siblings
Feels like i am drowning
Party Accident
I was raped by an ex boyfriend
Brock and Will
To my best friend who raped me
Denial
A Survivor, Not a Victim
April 19th
I Am Brave!
Sexual Assault
Constant fear
1 in 5
Unicorns
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Abusรฉe par un voisin de mes grands...
Repressed Memory
My Brother
Rape by Boyfriend
Twenty Years of Hell
So drunk I can’t remember
I Am Beautiful Now
I was molested and raped at 6
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
What am I doing wrong
He was 56
Fell In Love With a Monster
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Unforgiven
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Rape
Victimization
He Was My Dad
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
Ex-boyfriend rape
Student Exchange
Life Purpose
Abusรฉe par un voisin de mes grands...
3x
Atlantis
Cruel Kids
Left Me In Pieces
My Own Street
My stepfather raped me
All Just Too Much
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
Am I Over Reacting?
Memory or a dream?
Erase and Rewind
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Third time’s the charm
Despedida
What Is Happening
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Rape
Pretty Girls
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
My Step Brother Raped Me
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
Cavemen
Too naรฏve
I didn’t enderstand what was happening
Sex doll
University Bar
Feeling Alone
I Pretend Like I Don’t Remember…But I...
Still Confused
Abused for years on and off
Molested and Confused
When I Was Three
Young and Unaware
Sexual Assault
Politeness Serves No One
16 times
Football Player
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Light In The Dark
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My Daughter
So Many Years to Remember
Sexual Assualt Overseas
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Always the Girls Fault
Survivor
Start of grooming at 15
I didnโt know it was rape, I...
Something I’ve Never Shared
En Enero de 2010
Braver

