#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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The Statistics that Changed Me
J’avais 13 ans
She was 5 years old
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Life Purpose
Years in Denial
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Overtaken Twice
Never Ending
And It Continues
I Trusted Him
A story of a not so perfect...
Hostage
Rapist Turned Murderer
Ruined
My Daughter and I Both
The Man in Uniform
My so called “best friend”
It was in a society that told...
So Many Times
Left Me In Pieces
His Masterpiece
My Story
Rape
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Ms.
Dear Coward
My Best Friend
Date rape
Him or Me
No
My Story
Multiple Sexual Assaults
כמוני כמוך
Rape
So Many Times
Rape
Older
Bringing the Stories to Light
My Fears Do Not Define Me
Time Heals
Set Up
Okay, Not Okay
Living With Us
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
School Principal
Confused
A Dating Experience and My Parents’ Attack
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
Does the pain ever go away?
College Rape
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Family Rape
Raped By a Female
Believe Her
Males are Victims Too
Less than a Minute of my Life
Convincing Myself
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
They Laughed
That’s not Me, it’s Her
Scar
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
This will be painful
Don’t Want to Anymore
Spoke out and was blamed
You are with me!!
My Stepbrother
One Night Only
Two Friends and Two Boys
I am not a rape victim
הטרידו אותי
Bartender Lies
Raped as a child and teen
Just Hanging Out
I Was Raped
Long way back
I’m Speaking Out!
Was It Rape?
Victim No More
Life After Death
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Abuse Continued
I Remember How It Felt
Raped and Numbed
Sexual Assault
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I Never Give Up

Multiple Times
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Mi Historia
So Now What?
Betrayed By My Own Mind
I Said No
היי לינור
At 17yr old was raped by my...
I was raped
Still Haven’t Healed
Twenty Years of Hell
Unethical or illegal?
Miss
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Not all friends are true
Why Was No Not Enough?
How Could It Have Happened
Frozen in fear
1 in 5
Broken
Raped and Almost Raped and Harassed
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I Just Started High School
Never Got His Name
Years later… meeting my rapist again
I Said No
Erase and Rewind
My story
Rape Shaming
University Bar
People You Do Not Know
The Friend
In 1978
Need help
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Happy Survivor
Everyone loves him
A young mother
My Own Sister
Too naïve
Many Years Ago
Raped in the Air Force
לפני 14 שנים
No Wasn’t Good Enough
A respectable collegue
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Feeling Lost
I should’ve known
My Mom
Not Okay
All-time low
The Party
You Must Acknowledge
My Brave Daughter
גבר אלים וחולני
Blamed myself …
Myself
I was 4 yrs old
f*ck you
Only 12
Rock It!
