#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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Years in Denial
The “R” Word
Manipulation
Drunken rape
The Beach is Not Safe
Secretly Molested
What Is Success?
The Stepmonster
Step Dad
ללינור היקרה
Coping with rape during a pandemic
Rape
Army
Never Even Knew
I Thought I Was Safe
כמוני כמוך
Help
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Teenage Victim
They asked if I was lying
Impact of Screening
Ready to Share
לפני 14 שנים
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
My Husband Set Me Up!
Not Really Love
The Life I Live
Letter to My Rapist
Touched
Sexual abuse by step father
My Own Sister
Still Can’t Believe It
So Now What?
Raped After School
My Best Friend
My Fight
She was never the same…
Rape
Mi Esposa
My friend assaulted me and another
“Trust me, take a chance”
Brothers
Sex doll
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Ex-Boyfriend
The Terrible 4
Simply My Story
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Last Party
Date Rape
The Hole in My Heart
Raped because of who I loved
3 Days After Arriving at College
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Nobody Knew
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
My message to all
Broke me
Scars That Heal
I Am Still Standing
My story
You are going to show me how...
I met evil at a young age
Two Friends and Two Boys
Rapist Turned Murderer
No Stranger
I was 11
My Mother Was Raped
Weak
Gang Raped
Start of grooming at 15
Happy Hell-oween
הסיפור שלי…
A Night To Remember
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Story Subject: * I thought he was...
Braver

Mi Historia
I’m Speaking Out!
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
The thief
I Was Nearly Raped
The Boys Club Continues
weird brother
How I Was Raped
The Fight We Can All Win
Shame
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
He Was a Cop
De Los 6 a Los 12
Through the Window
He Was a Family Friend
Locked Up
College Rape
When Will This Nightmare End
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Too naïve
Incest & Date Rape
Lightening Does Strike Twice
He took it as yes
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
6 to 20
Child sexual abuse
Spoke out and was blamed
Doctor Nightmares
היי לינור
I wish she wouldve helped me
Goodbye Virginity
Family Secrets
An Acquaintance
Just Words
Not normal
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Not safe in my own skin
My Boyfriend Raped Me
I “needed” to do this!
Bartender Lies
Halting The Pain
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Speak Up
When tears and no aren’t the answer
I know when I see a rapist...
my story
Repressed Memory
Date rape
Can’t Even Take My Medicine
A familiar fight
Unsure
I was raped and I didnt know...
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Hard Time
Another poem about a not so perfect...
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Anxiety
Forced, De-flowered
De Los 6 a Los 12
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Friends?
In NYC
LOST
It’s A Long Story
My Story
My Relationship With Dad
I want to Call it what it...
Speaking It
Closure
I Had No Voice
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Metoo
Date Rape
The Summer of 2013
lucky
Why: A Poem About My Rape
I thought you loved me
My experience as an intern in highschool
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
עדיין מציק
Was It My Fault?
Erase and Rewind
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Alone
Speaking Out
An Unknown Face & Hands
Being weak or stupid
He was my best friend
I Was Only 14
Diana Oakley’s Story
Ms.
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
A Ride Home
The Boys Club Continues
My Friend
It’s just not fair
I finally said NO
It Kills Me
I said no
April 8th, 2016
גבר אלים וחולני
I Just Started High School
No
To my best friend who raped me
Too many to stop it
Dream / Recall
My abuse story victim to survivor
Pretty Girls
Still Going
After Wedding
She was 5 years old
Night Out
So drunk I can’t remember
Stronger
Fraternity gang rape
A Long Healing Process
My year abroad
A Year After
He was 56
Ketamine Rape
The Devil You Know
A Different MeToo
Online Dangers
Seis Años
Finally Sharing
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Date Rape
Shedding the Shame of Adolescent Peer Sexual...
Together, We Are Brave

