#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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It never seems like Rape to me
אוףףףף
7 years and it still controls me
Dirty Whore
My first boyfriend in the US
Spoke out and was blamed
My 21st Birthday
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
I Am A Survivor
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
I Thought I was Safe
More Than Once
I Feel So Betrayed
I Recorded my Rapist
Being weak or stupid
Seis Años
When will it be enough?
Finding Words
The Party
Respect
Age 6 abused
My stepfather raped me
Emotional Abuse
My Brave Daughter
My story
My story growing up with a secret
it was 1 am
The Courtroom
My Ex-husband
A Story
Another kid raped me
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Thank you for being LOUD!
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
כמוני כמוך
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
I want my innocence back
My step dad raped me
Rape by Boyfriend
Multiple Rape
So drunk I can’t remember
What Is Success?
Respect Our Elders
My Story.
Two Times
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I Was 20
I thought he was a friend
Not all friends are true
Was It Rape?
5th Grade
My Best Friend
So Alone
I’m Only Stronger
my story
It’s still happening
הסיפור שלי…
I Saved Myself
Erased From Memory
ללינור היקרה
One in Four
Roommates
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Seeing My Rapist Everday
Being Raped
My story growing up with a secret
Black and Blue
What If I Make You?
My Story
I should have STOPPED
Two Times
I Thought I Was Safe
The Statistics that Changed Me
Life Changed
To my best friend who raped me
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
No
Help
Confused and Angry
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
A respectable collegue
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
He wasn’t a ‘friend’
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
MY Inspirational Story
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Stockholm
Abuse Continued
I Lost My Teenage Years
Gang Rape
Date Rape
Childhood Horror
Erase and Rewind
It’s OK
Will I ever get over it.
My First Two Times
Tormented
My Life, My Achievement
Victimization
My Daughter and I Both
Just Fine
You Were My Friend
Confused
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
A Big Man
Raped more than once
Raped in the Air Force
I wanted to get high
Masked Boyfriend
In-Between Times
I Was Only 7
In Five Years
I dont know what to call it
Suffered and Survived
He Was a Friend
Too naïve
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
My Side
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
Forgiving The Rapist
Breaking the Silence

