#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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So Many Times
Rape Shaming
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Respect
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
היי לינור
Why Me Over and Over?
I know when I see a rapist...
College Campus Rape
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Enough Is Enough
My Mother’s Life Partner Sexually Harrased Me...
I’m Disgusted
Too Afraid To Tell
Broken Homes, Broken Families
A Story
Erase and Rewind
My Rape Stories
I Just Started High School
Hidden Emotions
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
two years ago
Ms.
Seis Años
Throughout my teen years
Gang rape
Broken Trust
ללינור היקרה
It Can Happen To Anyone
Under Age drinking
My Rape
Stand Strong
I Still Blame Myself
James
Left Me In Pieces
Incest
Middle school sexual harassment
Getting Away
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
my story
Never Even Knew
Don’t Want to Anymore
Siblings
My Brother
It is not my fault
Freshman on Campus
J’avais 13 ans
College Rape
His Masterpiece
It’s My Fault
Too naïve
Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
I don’t know anymore
גבר אלים וחולני
Afraid of Him
Lasting Effects
I’m Disgusted
I Didn’t Let It Kill Me
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Sex doll
So Long Ago
Planned Rape
sexual assault
לפני 14 שנים
A Year After
I don’t know what happened
75 Percent Humidity
Different face, but the same monster
3 incidents
Still Unable to Tell People
Just Violated
One Day At a Time
I Thought I Was Safe
My Father’s Funeral
Enough Is Enough
The cycle
Diana Oakley’s Story
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
I Slept Next to Him
Wanted Love But Got Rape
Childhood Friend
Sexual assualt causes you not to be...
Raped By 6 Policemen
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Undertones Throughout My Life
Finally Sharing
Raped and Molested
כמוני כמוך
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Birthday Rape
Holding My Feelings In
Relationship does not equal consent
But what really happened?
עדיין מציק
Twice a pattern?
Never Wanted to Believe
I was 5.
I Was Only 7
The Statistics that Changed Me
Not my fault
Friends Uncle
So Many Times
Quarterly Review
Was it Really Rape
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Breaking The Silence
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
No one owns your story but you
He bought me chips and sent me...
James
The Devil You Know
Raped in the Air Force
My Story
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Daughter’s Rape
Mistaken Identity
My principal mom raped me
My Boyfriend
The Worst Relationship
My Fight
Just Words
lucky
Summer of ’09
April 2015
Hundreds of Times
MesS Into A mesSage
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Raped in Milan
4 Years Ago
My message to all
The reason for my tattoo
Finding My Voice
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Despedida
In Korea
The year that changed me
Rape Is Everywhere
“No” is Universal
So drunk I can’t remember
My Innocence Was Taken Away
Believe Her
Confused
My Abusers
3 Days After Arriving at College
Dear My Rapist
I was carrying his daughter.
An Abnormal Reaction
Raped by Him
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Mi Historia
I Was Manipulated
I was raped and I didnt know...
It Lead to More Memories
I Thought He Was My Friend
Dear Coward
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
I Am More Than It
My Story
Panic Attack
לא יוצאים מזה…
Salted Wound
A Nightmare
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
It Happens All Too Often
My experience as an intern in highschool
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
It’s just not fair
A Memory That Came Back
Shattered Childhood
I Remember Being Happy
He over stepped the mark
The thief
i was pulling my shorts up
I’ve survived sexual abuse
The Story of a Boy
A Voice to be Heard
The Unforgetable Party
Broken
De Los 6 a Los 12
I Recorded my Rapist
Molested
My Story
Nothing important…
After I Was Raped
Attempted Rape
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
The Man Who Never Was
My Story
He was jealous of my new friend
Why Me?
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Assault?
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
I’m Confused
Incest & Date Rape
Rape of My Partner
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Just Another Night
Victim of Abuse
Raped by my boyfriend
Victim Shaming
Things do get better
The pain that was never mine to...
My Story
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Too temping, I guess
A familiar fight
I Am Beautiful Now
J’avais 13 ans
My survival story
I Am a Survivor…
Too Far
I Am Brave
