#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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My Story, My Nightmare
Raped and Molested
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Molested
My Story
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
ללינור היקרה
A respectable collegue
My teacher and my step-brother
The Statistics that Changed Me
By my friend
Living Nightmare
I Thought I was Safe
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
Worst pain of my life
When I Was 8 Years Old
I Am Still Standing
Bringing the Stories to Light
Choose healing over silence
Raped by a so called friend
lucky
Dream / Recall
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Happy Birthday
I forgot, but then I remembered
Verbal Abuse and Attempted Rape – A...
Myself
I Thought He Loved Me
The Trauma That Made Me
College Rape
I don’t know what happened
Rock It!

Why did this happen to me???
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
It Wasn’t Love
My Ex-husband
First date: Raped after school at 15
I was too young to know what...
Call Me Anything But That
I was raped last summer
Sexual Abuse
This is my story
Males are Victims Too
גבר אלים וחולני
Pedophile Neighbour
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
The pain that was never mine to...
Miss
An Orphanage
Afraid of Being Judged
Raped in the Air Force
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Naive
Raped twice within a few hours
Party Time
I Am Beautiful Now
I Was 19
Dream / Recall
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I didn’t know
The Cliche
NYC Vacation
Embrace It All
Metoo
All Just Too Much
אוףףףף
Not Sure It Happened
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Spring Break Nightmare
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Scared
I Barely Knew Them
Rape, Sexual Abuse
This Is My Story
Just Words
But I Was Drunk
I Thought It Was Normal
My Coach My Rapist
Drunken rape
Manipulation
Summer 2019
A person to trust became my worst...
Raped On My Bday
They thought it was fun
Two Times
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Daycare friend
Finally Arrested
Sexual Abuse
Set Up
After Wedding
Why Me, Time and Time Again
Is It Really Rape?
Sex doll
Assaulted on a Holiday
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
Bringing the Stories to Light
I Thought He Loved Me
I Recorded my Rapist
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Forgotten Memories Submerge
#IStandWithHer
I was raped and I didnt know...
One Day At a Time
Brother & Sister
Be Careful Who You Trust
When I Was 7
Young and Unaware
My Story
BFF’s Husband
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Unhealthy Relationship
Stupid Coward
Shattered Childhood
Fenced In
Rape
Ms.
Why
Child Rape
Broken Trust
Confusion
Drugged
Halloween Nightmare
Close of a Brother
Struggling to Survive
My little girl
First Frat Party
My Husband Set Me Up!
Man Raped By Man
I Trusted Him
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
When I Was Three
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
6 to 20
They Laughed
I know when I see a rapist...
My Life
Proud
It Lead to More Memories
En Enero de 2010
Sexually abused by my father
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Mi Esposa
I Was Raped By An Stranger
I am J. D. R., and I...
Rapist Turned Murderer
My First Time
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Holiday Rape
Survivor
Still Terrified
“I should do this more often”
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Used
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
To My Rapist
הסיפור שלי…
Happy Survivor
Repeat Offender
blackmailed
Keeping Faith
Warning
A Dating Experience and My Parents’ Attack
7 years and it still controls me
Family Member
Date Raped When I Was 15
Scared
Male dancer
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
הטרידו אותי
He Took My Virginity
Teenage Victim
That “man”
Kept From Us
Girls Without Parents
When Does It End
my story
Holding My Feelings In
I can say it now
עדיין מציק
It had to be my fault.
Almost Raped
Army
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
Too naïve
Dee Bhagwanji
J’avais 13 ans
Friends Uncle
I was just 9.
I am a survivor
A Message from the Director
Finally Sharing
High School Rape
One Day At a Time
Unethical or illegal?
Army
Effort To Survive
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
My story!
I called him my friend
My Daughter’s Rape
My Daughter
My story growing up with a secret
Bad Date
Doctor Nightmares
Asking for advice
Set Up
James
College Rape
Survivor
Unsure
I don’t know what to think
Liar, Liar
My Journey (sexual abuse)
Thank you
Childhood Horror
I Didn’t Want to Do It
The thief
Nothing important…
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
Just wanted to be loved
I Lost My Teenage Years
I want to be better
The Same Effect
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
After 14 Years
Spoke out and was blamed
My Year in Hell
Rape & Sexual Assault
Raped by stranger x2
“No” is Universal
Extreme Blessings
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
Seis Años
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
That Night
From Heaven to Hell
Scared to close my eyes
He was a friend
After I Was Raped
Your never stop hurting me till your...
לפני 14 שנים
A Long Healing Process
I Was Prepared
No
Halloween 2014
Together, We Are Brave

