#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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Spoke out and was blamed
Something so Horrible Could Make Me This...
My Untold Story
My Story
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Shattered Childhood
My husband was home
Male dancer
Amber’s Story
What’s Done Is Done
I was born for this
Not Really Love
Raped At 15
I wish I could change the past
My Story
Flashbacks
My Brother
Broken Girl
Naive College Freshman
Today, I Let It All Go
Erase and Rewind
A Victim No Longer
75 Percent Humidity
It’s OK
Attempted Rape
I didn’t say no
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I never knew he was Satan
Assaulted by my neighbor
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
The thief
The Statistics that Changed Me
So Alone
He Was My Boyfriend
Sexual Abuse
The Night That Changed Me
Spring Break Nightmare
His Charming Ways
Sexually Assaulted
“raped” by my long time bf
Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
Never Be the Same Again
Two times. One year.
Married My Rapist
My Two Days of Hell
I Was Dating Him
Glitter Girl, Gone.
The Girl Who Went To College
6 to 20
What Happened?
5 years now
Unwanted Flashbacks
No Wasn’t Good Enough
14 year old raped at school
Spring Break
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
My story
J’avais 13 ans
There Is Hope For Us
April 19th
Drugged
3 Generations
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
The Guy I Trusted
I was a kid, you were my...
I Thought I was Safe
Multiple Assaults
A Night To Remember
The Man in Uniform
It wasn’t my fault
Rape or Not?
Bringing the Stories to Light
A young mother
Who Is To Blame?
Mi Esposa
To the man who stole my independence
Stronger Than You Think
Abuse and Rape
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
When I Was 7
What Is Happening
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Despedida
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
So drunk I can’t remember
From Grief to Trauma
Survivor

My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A Meek Young Girl
No Stranger
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Ms.
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
I Was Only 7
But I Was Drunk
Family rape
Black and Blue
Growing Past Just Surviving
Life Purpose
MS13
Military Brother in Arms
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
A Stong Woman
She was 5 years old
De Los 6 a Los 12
Don’t Want to Anymore
A Part of My Twenties
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Seis Años
Sexual Assault
Rape By My Husband
Life Is Rough
Twice
I Am Brave

Ashamed
The Loss of My Childhood
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
A respectable collegue
Help!! What Can I Do?
Myself
The First Man Who Broke My Heart
Victim of Abuse
Not friends
The Devil You Know
My Fight
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Finally facing it
University Bar
Why Me, Time and Time Again
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I thought he was a friend
First Love to Long Term Abuse
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Summer 2019
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
#IStandWithHer
Freshman Year
Kidnapped
כמוני כמוך
Shame
Six months in the making..
It Wasn’t Love
army
Raped by Him
I was just 9.
A School Trip
Online dating
Child sexual abuse
After Wedding
Finding Me
He Was a Cop
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Today, I Let It All Go
I was raped by my step dad
Ex
Manipulation
Knowledge is Power
I wanted to get high
It was just a vacation
Weathering The Storm
אוףףףף
Okay, Not Okay
Afraid of Being Judged
Roofied
The Statistics that Changed Me
He Took My Virginity
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Unethical or illegal?
I am not a rape victim
Broken
לפני 14 שנים
Childhood Rape
I Didn’t Even Know Him
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Former partner would berate me
The Night That Changed My World
Girl Raped By a Girl
1 in 5
3 incidents
Rape
Red Flags
Overcoming My Story of Rape
Day at the Lake
A Lifetime of pain
One Day At a Time
I let it happen twice
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
Childhood Trauma
Darkness With Friends
Too naïve
My story growing up with a secret
Do I even belong here?
Bad Date
College Campus Rape
I Never understood
I just realized this today.
ללינור היקרה
Assault?
So Long Ago
גבר אלים וחולני
So Alone
Shopping-Me too
Raped By a Female
Rape
Is this normal?
Michelle Johnston
The Night That Changed My Life
Fear
Drunken Rape
Rape and Crisis
Dee Bhagwanji
Different face, but the same monster
…
Sexual Assault
My Brother’s Best Friend
I Was 3 Years Old
A Message from the Director
