#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.
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Shame
A Victim No Longer
Young and Unaware
I don’t know if I was raped
It will get better
Realization of Rape
Throughout my teen years
Erase and Rewind
my story
Rapist Turned Murderer
My Own Street
Bringing the Stories to Light
7 years and it still controls me
My boyfriend of 2 years
Deep Scars
I was molested and raped at 6
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Being Raped
#MeToo 5 years later…
I Am Still Standing
Drunken rape
I am a survivor
I was only 11
I Blamed Myself
Memories in the Dark
He was a friend
I Never Thought He’d Do Something Like...
My Story
Just Playing
Confused and Angry
My Snowball Effect
Halloween Nightmare
Betrayed
Forced, De-flowered
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Army
My Story
My message to all
Growing Past Just Surviving
Say Something
Let’s Fight Back With Love
The Night My Life Got Destroyed
University Bar
Family
Molested
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Just a Kid
Mi Esposa
Is this normal?
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
From Friends to Nothing
Incapacitated Still
Some Friend
Drugged and Gang Raped
Shame Destroys
That Night
Despedida
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
Rape
Not Alone
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Nearly 50 years later
The Statistics that Changed Me
Friends are sharing
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
The First Time
Summer 2019
Sex doll
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Survivor
Friend?
Hateful
Tormented
Speak Up
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Just Words
Prey
Rape Under Intoxication
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Male dancer
November ’08
Daycare Teacher
Once Again
My Ongoing Journey
The Life I Live
A Fun Night
16 and 45
No
Spring Break Nightmare
My Ongoing Journey
How Many Times?
It was normal
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Cafeteria Food
What Is Success?
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Her first job
I Don’t Trust My Father
Need advice
Ketamine Rape
Started At 12…
Drunken Rape
It never stops changing you
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
In Denial of My Rape
היי לינור
By my friend
I’m Disgusted
In The Past
My Mother’s Albatross
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A Story
Supposed To Be There
Smoke Together
Shelter My Soul
היי
My Story
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Multiple Times
My story growing up with a secret
Scars
So drunk I can’t remember
A Girl Who Cried Wolf
A young mother
I know when I see a rapist...
Is love assault?
Six months in the making..
הסיפור שלי…
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
What happened to me?
Alone and Afraid
Disappointed
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Different face, but the same monster
Enough Is Enough
Stupid Coward
#MeToo I am 1
23 with a secret
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Rape by family
Unethical or illegal?
Myself
Raped in the Air Force
i was 5 , 12 , 13...
A Voice to be Heard
My Stepbrother
Help
ללינור היקרה
Mi Historia
הטרידו אותי
I Woke Up In The Tub
Raped
Twice is too much
I’m Finally Moving On
Sexual harassment
I was raped by a youtube personality...
Some of my story
No Means No
My Safe Place
#IStandWithHer
Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
11 Years to Justice
My Daughter
Scared
Too naïve
The Beach is Not Safe
One Day At a Time
No one helped me !!!
Date Rape
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
My Story
The pain that was never mine to...
Prescription Drugs
Was it my fault
Date Raped
Spring Break
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
I don’t know what to do
Welcome To Adulthood
Fraternity Men
I’m Only Stronger
Just a Kid
I still don’t know what happened
My Ex-husband
Heavy Is The Head
It had to be my fault.
J’avais 13 ans
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
The pain that was never mine to...
Forgiving My Rapist
I Was Dating Him
You Must Acknowledge
The Man Who Never Was
My Own Brother
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
A sociopath in disguise
Stronger Every Day
I was 13, he was my first...
My 11 Year Old Selfs Story
Family Ties
How Could It Have Happened
Myself
De Los 6 a Los 12
I Dated My Rapists
Sexual Abuse
Raped Husband
עדיין מציק
Alcohol
17
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
Babysitters
Cavemen
My Fight
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
He Loved Me
Spousal Rape
Letter to my offender part 2
It never stops changing you and thats...
כמוני כמוך
Friend of my Husband
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
I Blame Myself
My principal mom raped me
En Enero de 2010
Together, We Are Brave

Seis Años
Raped By My Biological Father
Set Up
A Life of Pain
You are going to show me how...
Dirty Whore
לפני 14 שנים
He took away my innocence
My Modeling Experience
My Story
Drugged
Empty
Parental Incest Is Rape
My Story
Be Careful Who You Trust
Fear Became a Part of My Life
Ms.
A respectable collegue
Stockholm
5 years now
Growth
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
They asked if I was lying
When I Was 16
Rape By My Husband
I don’t know what happened
My Childhood
אוףףףף
It’s Your Fault
Took Me, Took my Wedding
Secrets
Holding My Feelings In
Rape or Not?
Normalization
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Was Raped By An Stranger
Need Support
Never Be the Same Again
My story
I was very dumb.
I Was Only 7
I am a Survivor.
Dirty Whore
Still Going
Hotel
Brock and Will
My Story
It’s OK
Not Really Family
Rock It!
