#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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Glitter Girl, Gone.
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Black and Blue
Speaking Out
I Want to Live
Raped
My Rape
A Victim No Longer
I’m Only Stronger
Family of Lies
Brother Abused
Mi Esposa
Confusion
You Didn’t Break Me
I Am Not Brave
I Thought He Loved Me
sexual assault
At 13
Growing Past Just Surviving
I know when I see a rapist...
My year abroad
Don’t Give Up

A Guy With Crooked Teeth
Only I get to make choices for...
Male dancer
*rape
Seis Años
No More Silence
It Happened More Than Once
I don’t know if it’s rape
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
University Bar
My Oldest Friend
We met at the bar
Different face, but the same monster
Rape
Incest & Date Rape
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Alone and Afraid
STRONG
My Year in Hell
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Keeping Faith
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
I Never Thought This Would Happen To...
It Started With Rape
I Lost My Virginity
Despedida
A respectable collegue
Okay, Not Okay
Is It Really Rape?
He was my best friend
I’m Alive
Sexual Abuse
It Was the Second
I Didn’t See It In Time
Are you sure?
Now I Understand My Husband
Breaking the Trust
He Was a Friend
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
37 Years Ago
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Drugged and Gang Raped
Victim Shaming
Miss
It Was the Second
Don’t Want to Admit It
Scared Like Crazy
It Was My Mom
Confused and Angry
Rape & Sexual Assault
The Boys Club Continues
Still Think It Was My Fault
Why Me?
I Was Raped By An Stranger
A Life of Pain
Out of Control
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Sex doll
23 year old virgin
Once Again
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
What Is Success?
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Years later… meeting my rapist again
It Was the Second
So Now What?
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
My Two Days of Hell
An Unknown Face & Hands
Harassment at Work
Raped in Foster care
April 2015
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
Unicorns
לפני 14 שנים
In the Hospital
Ms.
my story
So Many Times
I Was Only 7
So Young
His Charming Ways
Drugged
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
My best friend
In 1978
Un-Silenced
…
Unspoken
It’s still happening
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Mi Historia
My Two Days of Hell
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Nightmare
Raped 14 times in 1 year
My Scars Do Not Define Me
My Rape
My Journey Back to Life
Becoming a Warrior
Sexual Assault
A School Trip
My Boyfriend Raped Me
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Being Done
Rape Survivor
Raped in the Air Force
The rape apology and my reply
It was not my fault
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Confused
So Now What?
Tulane Law
Middle school sexual harassment
Someone so close to me
They asked if I was lying
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Spoke out and was blamed
Just Wanted to Escape
Staying Strong
Football Player
Started With My Father
My survival story
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Slept Next to Him
Bringing the Stories to Light
Betrayed By a Loved One
Didn’t Know Until Later
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
No
I said YES
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Just Words
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
My story growing up with a secret
A Night I Will Never Forget
Sex doll
Lost Soul
When no means nothing
Child Rape
Start of grooming at 15
The Man Who Never Was
Hundreds of Times
Still Lost :/
Does he know?
What Can I Do
Michelle Johnston
Rape
My Childhood
My Modeling Experience
Not Alone
Date Raped at 19
Football Player
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Trauma
When I Was 8 Years Old
I don’t know anymore
Molestation
Secret Sorrow
Why didn’t I do anything?
I Was 16
En Enero de 2010
Weathering The Storm
Justice a Joke
I Thought I Was Safe
This is my story
Ride from the Concert
Years in Denial
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Me too
Army
I Am Brave

Date Rape
Too naïve
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
Sexually assaulted at 4
כמוני כמוך
אוףףףף
My survival story
Rape & Sexual Assault
Acceptance
13 and 16
Hard Time
Stormy Night
Stolen innocence
היי לינור
First Time Sharing
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Males can be victims too
Not A Trustworthy Man
Where did I go?
Thank You
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I was only 11
Unethical or illegal?
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
LOST
גבר אלים וחולני
23 with a secret
Still searching for any type of answer....
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
My Innocence Was Taken Away
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
I Never Give Up
