#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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Teatime
After I Was Raped
It Was the Second
I Never Thought He’d Do Something Like...
My story
Liar, Liar
כמוני כמוך
When I Was 8 Years Old
He Destroyed Me
You Were My Friend
Not Safe in Your Own Family
17
#IAmBrave and together, #WeAreStrong
Becoming a Warrior
#MeToo I am 1
Naive College Freshman
Unethical or illegal?
Beyond a story
Mi Esposa
What Happened?
Dream / Recall
You Must Acknowledge
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Stolen Innocence
My Safe Place
Lasting Effects
So Called Friends
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
True View
My 21st Birthday
I’m Over Reacting
Quiet for 2 years
Beyond a story
No Support
My Side
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Rape
So drunk I can’t remember
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I know when I see a rapist...
Speak Up
Say Something
Life of Trauma
Myself
Army
Raped by my boyfriend
Raped by my Stepfather
She Should Be Over It
In-Between Times
Spoke out and was blamed
Just Words
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
Don’t Be Me
Love of My Life?
Secretly Molested
It had to be my fault.
Forgiving My Rapist
The healing process
It Wasn’t Love
My story growing up with a secret
MST
היי
Betrayed By a Loved One
Ms.
Freshman Year
The Stepmonster
Confused and Angry
Incapacitated Still
לא יוצאים מזה…
I was raped
Sex doll
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Mi Esposa
Raped in the Air Force
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
My Fight
Men get raped too…
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Rape By My Husband
my story
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Why Me?
I don’t know what to think
From Grief to Trauma
Not friends
I Am More Than It
Rape without remorse
Not Real Rape
I guess it was rape
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Domestic rape
Alone and depressed
I am a Survivor
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Lessons I’m Learning Late in Life
Date Raped When I Was 15
Raped and Molested
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
Sexual Abuse
Start of grooming at 15
I Don’t Even Know
Need help
I Was 19
So Many Times
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
7 years and it still controls me
I was too young to know what...
I Saved Myself
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
The reason for my tattoo
dad and mom rape
Christmas Horror
New Years Eve Party
i was a child.
I now know
No Wasn’t Good Enough
I still don’t know
Unforgiven
Dee Bhagwanji
10 years later I realised
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Despedida
A Lifetime
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Travelling
My stepfather raped me
Dads boss daughter!!!!!!
Convincing Myself
I Am a Survivor…
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Why Me Over and Over?
Victim No More
Raped At 16, 29, 31
I lost myself before I even knew...
Hostage
This is my story
Believe Her
I Trusted Him
I am not a rape victim
Emotional Abuse
Stupid Coward
How Many Times?
I was 17 and survived
Too naïve
Trying To Help
Had Her Back
Gross
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
Childhood of assault
Isn’t Any Proof
Mrs
Rape !!
Do NOT Trust Strangers
The Night That Changed Me
I Felt So Helpless
My Best Friend
Raped by my boyfriend
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Incest
LOST
Going Through the Emotions
I should have STOPPED
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
It Happened To Me
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Rape
Spousal Rape
My experience as an intern in highschool
Friends are sharing
ללינור היקרה
I thought he was a friend
Mrs.
Returning to Mexico
If your boyfriend does it is is...
Didn’t Know I Had Been Raped
A horror that lasts a lifetime
Braver


