#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 Recorded my Rapist
Molested
15
Impacted Forever
Believe Her
לא יוצאים מזה…
So Alone
כמוני כמוך
Finding My Voice
Stand Strong
Just Words
The Power of Victimization
“Austin”
Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
My Trauma(s)
My Rape Stories
Almost Raped
Date Rape
My Own Brother
my story
I Am a Survivor
I was raped
Returning to Mexico
A Co-Worker
April 19th
The Statistics that Changed Me
Thank You
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Why?
I Didn’t See It In Time
היי לינור
First Rape
In The Concrete Jungle
Roommates
En Enero de 2010
Rape Victim
I was born for this
Noah
Suffered and Survived
After I Was Raped
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Ms.
Too naïve
My story growing up with a secret
We Stand Together
Perfect on Paper
J’avais 13 ans
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
My Childhood
I Am Finally FREE
Piece
My Daughter
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Thank You
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
My Ex-husband
Multiple Date Rapes/Sexual Abuse During Teen Years...
Sex doll
No
Keeping Faith
היי
How Many Times?
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
First Time
Lasting memories
Spoke out and was blamed
Mi Historia
Gang raped foolishly
My Two Days of Hell
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Enough Is Enough
Our Corrupted Country
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Date Rape
Freshman Year
Step Daddy
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Drugged and Gang Raped
Stranger Danger, Yeah Right.
Grooming
A Day My Life Changed Forever
My biggest mistake
I called him my friend
Two Friends and Two Boys
Deja Vu
Six months in the making..
Careful What You Wish For
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
The abuser
My Story.
I don’t Know, but I Know
I Too Was Raped
#MeToo, too
Some of my story
He had my pants down
Teen-ager Trauma
Mental Breakdown
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Still Lost :/
My story
I called him my friend
Raped By Boyfriend
I just realized this today.
Rape
Ripped Me Apart
Over 40 years Ago
Raped and Numbed
My Story
He was family
Survivor
Raped by my Stepfather
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Raped
Teatime
A respectable collegue
My Story
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Locked Up
Summer 2019
My Rape
An Abnormal Reaction
Another poem about a not so perfect...
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Sexual Assault
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Raped After Work
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
De Los 6 a Los 12
What Is Success?
As If It Never Happened
I said no – but he took...
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
Raped by my Step Brother
Sexual Assault
Ended in Rape
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Touched
Thank you
ללינור היקרה
It wasn’t your fault
From a Boyfriend
Myself
I am a survivor and got over...
Drugged
Not like the rape you always hear...
Not friends
Raped in the Air Force
Was I raped?
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
It Felt Like Rape
End of Innocence
Finding Me
Stupid Coward
Someday Soon
Started As a Child
College Professor
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Scared to close my eyes
Multiple Assaults
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
My First Two Times
Tree House
Stolen Innocence
Cradle to the grave
He used me. He left me.
17
Despedida
College Rape
Almost Raped
Stronger Than You Think
How it makes me feel 5 years...
Incest
A Child
Still Can’t Believe It
עדיין מציק
An Embarrassing Situation
#IStandWithHer
My Daughter
I Was 16
Is It Really Rape?
Sexual Abuse of Minors
I’m getting Married tomorrow
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Long way back
Masked Boyfriend
Being Raped
Incest
Tormented
This will be painful
I Was Manipulated
Cavemen
Happy Birthday
Raped as a Boy
Fear Became a Part of My Life
I’m not broken but worse. I’m dead.
My story growing up with a secret
incest
Army
My Rape Story
Empty
Blamed Myself
A learning experience
Drugged and Raped
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
A Poem
Sexual Abuse
Unethical or illegal?
Gang Rape
I Want to Live
What sent me over the edge
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Paris Nightmare
Something so Horrible Could Make Me This...
Just Wanted to Escape
Holding My Feelings In
My First Time
Unspoken
Broken Girl
Repressed Memory
I Too Was Raped
So Long Ago But Still With Me
My Story of a Gang Rape
Is this normal?
גבר אלים וחולני
Male dancer
Forgiving My Rapist
Just Another Night
Knowledge is Power
I’m Doing You a Favor
Obsessed Abusive Ex
I know when I see a rapist...
A Letter to My Rapist
Raped by a US Marine when I...
It Started With Date Rape
First Time
My Story
Never Going To Happen To Me
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Two Times
I am a Rape Survivor
Surviving sexual assault trauma
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
was raped and I don’t remember it
School Bathroom
הטרידו אותי
Don’t Want to Anymore
Its Got To STOP!
Happy Birthday
Rape
Holiday Rape
You Must Acknowledge
Just a Kid
My Story
lucky
Circumstances Collided That Night
Hope after repeated rape
My trauma and its effects
1 in 5
Tormented
They asked if I was lying
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
I still don’t know
I Choose Hope


