#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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Not normal
My Religious Teacher
I just realized this today.
I Barely Knew Them
11 Years to Justice
Is It Really Rape?
De Los 6 a Los 12
A Message from the Director
A Family Cycle
Taken Advantage
Boyfriend Hell
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Drunk and taken advantage of
Remember as a victim you have done...
When I Was 11…
Raped in the Air Force
I Remember Being Happy
In 1978
Four Years Ago
Convincing Myself
אוףףףף
After I Was Raped
Ready to Share
No one owns your story but you
Does “No” mean nothing?
3 Times is Not Charming
I Need To Share More
My Multiple-Offender Rape
3 Generations
He was a friend
עדיין מציק
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Party Time
My Modeling Experience
Couch Surfing
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Too naïve
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Just a Child
1 in 5
Marital Rape
The Night That Changed My Life
I Thought I Knew Hi
My younger brother
A Private College; A Private Rape
Enough Is Enough
Assault, Battery, and Rape
He’s Still Out There
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
A respectable collegue
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
There once was love
My best friends dad
Still Lost :/
Unicorns
slutshamedchild
Your truth will change someones’ life.
I Really Want To Forget About It
Raped by ex boyfriend
Abusive Uncle
Girl Raped By a Girl
Knowledge is Power
Ashamed
The Statistics that Changed Me
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
High School Orientation
Need Support
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
They asked if I was lying
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Be Careful Who You Trust
Another poem about a not so perfect...
In Korea
Silence
Molested
Overcoming My Story of Rape
Raped in College
A person to trust became my worst...
It Was the Second
Lasting Effects
I wanted to get high
Felt safe in my friend group
Gray area?
Get a bf or I’ll kick you...
Finally Arrested
Date Rape
First Time
Happy Birthday
2-4 am on January 15th
Thank you
Why does this keep happening to me?
כמוני כמוך
My Daughter
my story
Day at the Lake
Left in shambles
rape
Silenced But Not Forever
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
LOST
Unhealthy Relationship
As If It Never Happened
The Statistics that Changed Me
My story!
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Repressed Memory
Rude awakening
Together, We Are Brave

Continue to Survive
I Never understood
He Took My Virginity
Raped in my own bed
My Story
Today, I Let It All Go
i was a child.
After 14 Years
This Is My Story
Unsure
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Rape
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
הטרידו אותי
Ms.
Still Think It Was My Fault
Married to Abuser
Glitter Girl, Gone.
raped by my own brother
Twice a pattern?
How I Was Raped
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Just Like Yesterday
Mi Historia
Too many to stop it
He Was My Dad
She was never the same…
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Just Words
What Is Success?
Broken down car
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
It’s been 5 years, and you still...
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
My story
לא יוצאים מזה…
Breaking the Trust
Rapist Turned Murderer
Attempted rape
Sexual Abuse
Broken
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Prom Night
Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Childhood Story
Halloween Nightmare
Seis Años
I Still Blame Myself
My Parents Didnt Do Anything
Raped By My Father
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Teenage Victim
Moving on Alone from Rape
4 Years Ago
Only I get to make choices for...
Breaking the Silence
Rape
Kidnapped and Raped
Why?
Am I Over Reacting?
The Healing Process
Bringing the Stories to Light
Sexual Assault
I guess it was rape
Date Rape
He Was A Police Officer
My Scars Do Not Define Me
Too temping, I guess
First Crush
Spring Break
Erase and Rewind
My Rape
Being Done
I Said No
Raped by school ‘friend’
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
אוףףףף
A Letter To My Abusive Brother
Living Nightmare
Life of Trauma
March 1, 2008
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
“No” is Universal
Too naïve
Hiding from the Weather
היי
Raped By My Partner
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
I can’t keep quiet anymore
Childhood rape
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
I know when I see a rapist...
I wanted to get high
Silent Rape
The pain that was never mine to...
Unethical or illegal?
I let it happen twice
Sex doll
Surviving sexual assault trauma
Freshman on Campus
The Night My Life Changed
A Picture
Still Affected
Males can be victims too
Another kid raped me
Trauma
Date Rape
#IStandWithHer
My story growing up with a secret
היי לינור
Raped as a Young Boy
Raped 14 times in 1 year
What sent me over the edge
גבר אלים וחולני
Rape in my locked home
I Didn’t See It In Time
En Enero de 2010
My year abroad
Don’t Give Up

