#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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לא יוצאים מזה…
I Feel So Betrayed
SA in school
The Devil You Know
2 Years Ago
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Virgin Rape
Forced, De-flowered
No Stranger
My Modeling Experience
Few People Know
My Horrific Nightmare
Why Me?
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My Interview
First Frat Party
Just a Kid
Incest
Junior Prom
Me too.
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Did I Deserve It
Unethical or illegal?
He took everything
Family rape
הטרידו אותי
Justice Didn’t Help Me
My Boyfriend
Nine Years Worth of Abuse
I Never Thought He’d Do Something Like...
So drunk I can’t remember
An Intruder
“No” is Universal
Rape
לפני 14 שנים
My little girl
Knowledge is Power
Piano Teacher
Mother and Son
I never knew he was Satan
עדיין מציק
i was sexually abused
Childhood abuse and acquaintance rape
You Must Acknowledge
Sexual Assault
Quarterly Review
Male dancer
Summer 2019
A respectable collegue
It’s Your Fault
Piece
My husband was molested as a child
En Enero de 2010
Date Rape
Still searching for any type of answer....
Just Another Night
Woke up violated and confused.
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Denial
Drunk and Alone
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Cavemen
Survivor, Still Struggling
Family
17
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
The Night That Changed My World
Hostage
Lost Soul
Military Man
Just wanted to be loved
Just a Child
Broke me
Do NOT Trust Strangers
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Incest
First Friend at University
One Day At a Time
I Thought I was Safe
Light In The Dark
Does he know?
Why Me?
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Mi Historia
Never Be the Same Again
Digging my own grave
Betrayed By My Husband
No Support
Every Time I Said “No”
ללינור היקרה
Father Figures
Lied to left brain damged
I Prayed for Death
I Need to Tell Someone
Being Done
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
Start of grooming at 15
So Now What?
Beyond a story
My First Time
Happy Birthday
I Thought I was Safe
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Living With Us
Life Purpose
Confused by Rape
Touched
כמוני כמוך
Kidnapped and Raped
Anxiety
Drug raped
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Child Molester
More Witness than I Care to Live...
My Sister and I were Abused
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
I thought he was my friend
I Was Only 7
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
First Time
When I Was 8 Years Old
Politeness Serves No One
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Step Dad
Over 40 years Ago
I Am a Survivor
She wanted me to prove I loved...
Started With My Father
Raped and Numbed
Assault In the Family
Kidnapped
Brother & Sister
Trader Joes
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Family members ex husband
Out For A Walk
Raped as a Boy
my story
Spousal Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
3x
Shattered Childhood
I didn’t even know what was happening
Be Aware
First Date
Rape
A Meek Young Girl
No one owns your story but you
I Dated My Rapists
Six Years of Denial
Raped because of who I loved
East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer – Joseph...
I Thought I Was Safe
Nothing important…
3 Different Times
Raped By 6 Policemen
Our Corrupted Country
The First Time
4th grade
You Were My Friend
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My experience
April 19th
Rape
The Party
Masked Boyfriend
Childhood
Mi Esposa
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Was It My Fault?
5
Raped After School
Child Molester
Cousin Rape
Seis Años
What Happened?
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Twice
Help
Metoo
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
They thought it was fun
My First Boyfriend
Why Me?
10 years later I realised
An Abnormal Reaction
Three Times in a Row
Respect Our Elders
Sex doll
Holiday Rape
Politeness Serves No One
Seis Años
My rape story
Friend of my Husband
My Best Friend’s Brother
Incontrovertible
I was raped and I didnt know...
Assault?
I don’t know anymore
sexual assault
Molested by my biological father
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
When will it be enough?
Unknown Abuse by Biological Father
Metoo
Thank you
I forgot, but then I remembered
My so called “best friend”
A Night I Can’t Remember
Shelter My Soul
I think my “boyfriend” raped me
Letter to…
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
My first love
I Don’t Know My Story
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Why Me, Time and Time Again
A Business Partner
You Didn’t Break Me
Raped
It was someone I knew and I...
Raped by ex boyfriend
אוףףףף
My babysitter
Not Really Family
Raped in the Air Force
Multiple Times
Survivor

