#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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I Felt So Helpless
Someone Close to You
כמוני כמוך
Hostage
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Brother & Sister
היי לינור
I Recorded my Rapist
Freshman on Campus
My sisters boyfriend abused me
Confused and Angry
Seis Años
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A story never told
I thought he was a brother
Sexual Abuse
To my best friend who raped me
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
A Private College; A Private Rape
This Is Me, my fight song
Roofied
Incest
My Story
06.05.2006
Why Me?
To my best friend who raped me
In Korea
Sexual abuse by step father
Rape
Was It My Fault?
I regret not telling
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
My Horrific Nightmare
He Was My Friend
My Fight
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Rape
Going to be His Girlfriend
Be Strong
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Raped By 6 Policemen
I Too Was Raped
I Was Only 7
Holding My Feelings In
Myself
Multiple Rapes
Are you sure?
MY Inspirational Story
Just Playing
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
First Date
Six months in the making..
The First time I shared…
Twice
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
הטרידו אותי
I don’t know who I am
A Night I Will Never Forget
75 Percent Humidity
I am J. D. R., and I...
Drunken rape
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
A Story
It Was Too Late
Molested While Sleeping
היי
Friends are sharing
Victim of Abuse
Holding It In
Remember as a victim you have done...
Lost Dignity
Taken Advantage
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Mental Breakdown
Raped At 15
Not A Trustworthy Man
Never Seemed Worth Telling
A young mother
I Was a Virgin
My Horrific Nightmare
Be Careful Who You Trust
Sex doll
Ms.
Abuse of Men and By My Mother
I’m letting go
Too naïve
Alcohol
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Sharing again
The Man Who Never Was
Just Words
I want my innocence back
Salted Wound
Do I say thank you?
Night Out
Young and dumb?
Confused
An Embarrassing Situation
Staying Strong
Repressed Memories
An Uber Driver Raped Me
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
I Didn’t See It In Time
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Stuck
Assault In the Family
I was very dumb.
I forgot, but then I remembered
De Los 6 a Los 12
Shelter My Soul
A Letter to My Rapist
Date Rape
Mi Esposa
I blamed myself for so long
Hundreds of Times
3 incidents
Unhealthy Relationship
Shelter My Soul
When I Was 8
Self Worth
An Abnormal Reaction
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
I Dated My Rapists
Innocence Taken
Will I ever get over it.
The Statistics that Changed Me
School Bathroom
The Reason I Feel Alone
Mi Historia
Last Party
A respectable collegue
Just a Child
Spoke out and was blamed
Why Me?
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Invictus
What’s Done Is Done
Trying To Help
Sexual Assault
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Think About It Everyday
My Story
Sexually assaulted at 4
Set Up
The Party I Will Never Forget
Black and Blue
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Rape
Family Member
Date Rape
My boyfriend of 2 years
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Forced to Have Sex with My Boyfriend
Emotional Abuse
It was never…..That
The reason for my tattoo
לא יוצאים מזה…
Naive
Erase and Rewind
Hotel
Rape & Sexual Assault
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Breaking the Silence

Forced, De-flowered
My Two Rapes
Becoming a Warrior
My Daughter and I Both
So Young
Light In The Dark
Mistaken Identity
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Trauma
Speaking Up for Women
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Innocence Taken
ללינור היקרה
Not just me
Summer 2019
My best friends dad
My Own Street
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Innocence Was Taken Away
He doesn’t even know he raped me
I Was 9
Being Molested as a Young Boy
Manipulation
My Untold Story
Not all friends are true
Scared and Confused
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Being Raped
Politeness Serves No One
I don’t know what to do
Since Age 6?
Shout Out
Child Rape
My Best Friend
He Took My Virginity
My Snowball Effect
Drunk and taken advantage of
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
You Were My Friend
A Meek Young Girl
I don’t Know, but I Know
It’s OK
Liberating Moment
Raped By Boyfriend
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Daughter and I Both
I know when I see a rapist...
Why Me Over and Over?
Confused
…
I Am Brave!
It’s A Long Story
I wish I would have been smarter
Multiple Times
It was not my fault
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
My Story
In NYC
I am still running
No One Is Who They Appear To...
Hateful
At 13
Alone and depressed
Halloween 2014
Hidden But Not Forgotten
Army
I met evil at a young age
April 19th
My Rape Stories
First Love to Long Term Abuse
Junior Prom
Abuse and Rape
What’s Done Is Done
Sexual Abuse
Mi Historia
Halloween Nightmare
3 years later i still wonder if...
Teatime
הסיפור שלי…
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
Remember November
Trapped In a Fantasy World
לפני 14 שנים
Raped because of who I loved
Monster dad
My biggest mistake
Drugged raped and failed by justice
My Army Fiance
My Cousin
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
School Prom
Dead Inside
I Didn’t Know
How can we make it stop?
Okay, Not Okay
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Drugged
Stepfather
גבר אלים וחולני
What Is Success?
Fenced In
Bad Morning
I thought he was a friend
My 21st Birthday
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Unethical or illegal?
It Was My Fault
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
He’s Dead
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Despedida
Who I Once Called My Father
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
En Enero de 2010
I Choose Hope
