#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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Date Rape
The pain that was never mine to...
My story growing up with a secret
Assaulted
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Hiding from the Weather
Cruel Kids
Healing and releasing painful memories
Running With Bare Feet
Had Her Back
I Was 16
An Unknown Face & Hands
When I Was 8 Years Old
No one owns your story but you
Catfished
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
All Just Too Much
It Was Too Late
Molested and Confused
One Day At a Time
Teenaged Victims
MY Inspirational Story
Out of Control
After School
My Rape Stories
I didn’t break up with him back...
Too Far
My Sexual Assault Story
Supporting Sisters
the scary shadows
University Bar
16 times
my brother in law
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
i was a child.
My year abroad
Feeling Alone
Someone so close to me
Don’t Give Up

raped and isolated
Déja-vu
4 Years Ago
Childhood Rape
James
I was attacked at 19 years old
Day at the Lake
My First Time
Date Rape
Overcome It
Unwanted Flashbacks
Read This Please
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Why you should talk to your daughters...
לפני 14 שנים
I Was Raped?
Drugged and Gang Raped
Made in America
Raped in the Air Force
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
Panic Attack
Why Me Over and Over?
When I Was 7
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Respect
My Snowball Effect
The Statistics that Changed Me
Am i being raped?
Drugged
I Am A Survivor
Broken Girl
Drugged and Gang Raped
College Professor
Twice is too much
I Dated My Rapists
Freshman Year
Empty
Start of grooming at 15
Ms.
Manhandling to Rape
Gang Rape At 15 Years Old
Ketamine Rape
הסיפור שלי…
Sharing #MeToo’s
Rape
הטרידו אותי
Confused
First Rape
November ’08
That’s not Me, it’s Her
Someday Soon
At the Movie’s
Rape
כמוני כמוך
My Friend
Constant fear
My experience as an intern in highschool
In NYC
So Now What?
Raped
Drunk and taken advantage of
גבר אלים וחולני
De Los 6 a Los 12
Loss of Trust
3 Times is Not Charming
Raped by a US Marine when I...
Camp rape
my teacher grabbed me
Mine Was Different
Just wanted to be loved
Dating For 10 Months When…
I’m Now a Statistic
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Benefit of the Doubt
Bus Ride Of Missing Hope
Confused
היי לינור
Not just me
I Was Only 7
He Was A Police Officer
Four Years Ago
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Army
Healing and releasing painful memories
I Never Thought
Hospitalized
Digging my own grave
Two Friends and Two Boys
37 Years Ago
A Survivor, Not a Victim
אוףףףף
Lost Soul
I’m Disgusted
My younger brother
Grandpa
I Thought I Could Trust Him
I Just Started High School
Braver

Blamed myself …
Breaking the Silence
Friends?
Continue to Survive
Feeling weak
It had to be my fault.
End of Innocence
Unethical or illegal?
Multiple Times
Male dancer
Bullied for Reporting Sexual Assault
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
I Was Raped
Ashly’s story
I don’t know who I am
I Thought He Loved Me
My Ex-husband
Erase and Rewind
לפני 14 שנים
The Terrible 4
Raped At 16, 29, 31
לא יוצאים מזה…
Was It Rape?
The Chapter Before The End
A friend who is a rapist
This is MY story
Multiple Times
Sex doll
He was right
My Story
Long way back
So drunk I can’t remember
Some Friend
I just realized this today.
My Sister
He was jealous of my new friend
Wide awake
With Love
Gray area?
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Gang Rape
Lasting Effects
Gang rape and further sexual assaults
Stupid Coward
College Rape
Hotel
Halloween Nightmare
Liar, Liar
Date Rape
Close of a Brother
How it makes me feel 5 years...
The rape apology and my reply
Anxiety
Not Okay
Being Molested as a Young Boy
Rape Is Everywhere
Cruel Kids
My Strength
7th Grade Assault
I Too Was Raped
Rape Is Everywhere
Family Party
Will I ever get over it.
Still Think It Was My Fault
He turned me into a damn monster
I Choose Hope
