#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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No Justice
Young and Innocent
The Night That Changed Me
Roofied
I Was Told It Was Normal
Deep Scars
Why Me Over and Over?
גבר אלים וחולני
Second Date
sexual assault
לא יוצאים מזה…
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
God Saved Me
Sexually Assaulted in Cuba
I wanted to get high
Devil In Disguise
Never Even Knew
With Love
A respectable collegue
Abuse Continued
My Friend
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
lucky
Our Corrupted Country
Happy Survivor
My Mother was raped and told me...
I Prayed for Death
Abused since I was young
He had my pants down
He took it as yes
We Stand Together
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Not normal
Drunken Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Fraternity gang rape
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Brother in Law
Masked Boyfriend
I Thought I was Safe
My Story
A Meek Young Girl
לפני 14 שנים
Date Raped When I Was 15
My best friend
Never Be the Same Again
Rape Survivor
Confused for Too Long
My rape story
I Was 20
I guess it was rape
I wish I would have been smarter
Out For A Walk
Rape
Emotional Abuse
Attempted Rape
My brother let him in
I Trusted Him
Young and Unaware
I Need to Tell Someone
Sex doll
ללינור היקרה
A Silent Fighter
Multiple Times
Ex-Boyfriend
College Rape
Disappointed
Erase and Rewind
A Voice to be Heard
Lasting Effects
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Mrs
Raped at 16
An Abnormal Reaction
I’m Doing You a Favor
37 Years Ago
Spoke out and was blamed
Raped
My Best Friend
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Ketamine Rape
Male dancer
Life Is Rough
Halloween Nightmare
Victim No More
הטרידו אותי
Child Abuse
I Need to Tell Someone
Confused by Rape
Drunk and Alone
Tattoo Artist
An Embarrassing Situation
Incest
First date: Raped after school at 15
Night Out
Molestation
10 years later I realised
Raped By My Neighbour
My best friends dad
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Never Even Knew
Attempted rape
Raped in the Air Force
Babysitters
To My Rapist
Relationship does not equal consent
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
Off My Shoulders
Gang Rape
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
I don’t know what to think
Rude awakening
Sally
עדיין מציק
my toxic relationship
University Bar
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Army
Do you remember your first time?
More Witness than I Care to Live...
My Ex-husband
Just Fine
Spousal Rape
Someday Soon
My Girlfriend of Two Years
Ignored For a Lifetime
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Betrayed By a Loved One
Halloween Nightmare
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
3 years on
I Was Only 14
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Rape & Sexual Assault
I was raped last summer
I still hate him
Myself
Need Support
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
My teacher and my step-brother
So Now What?
Beyond a story
Only I get to make choices for...
Weak
My Two Rapes
Ended in Rape
“raped” by my long time bf
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
Sexual Abuse
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Three weeks, every day..
To this day I still feel sick…
This Is My Story
My Snowball Effect
7th Grade Assault
3rd Grade Terror
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
I don’t know what to do
I know when I see a rapist...
“It’s not your fault.”
Military Sexual Trauma
Seis Años
Help
Black Out
Mi Esposa
Why
Naive
Piece
How Many Times?
Survivor
Date Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped at 17
Enough Is Enough
Sexual Assault at 11
I should have STOPPED
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Twice
I wish she wouldve helped me
Blamed Myself
Never Again
Can Anyone Help?
Summer 2019
I still see him on campus
Two times. One year.
Dating For 10 Months When…
The abuser
Rape
It wasn’t my fault
Raped At 15
Why you should talk to your daughters...
I Am A Survivor
An Unknown Face & Hands
The children are the priority here
Cafeteria Food
My Story
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Stepfather
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
הסיפור שלי…
Embrace It All
Michelle Johnston
My Biggest Secret
Always the Girls Fault
Unspoken
An older, popular boy
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
April 2015
A Private College; A Private Rape
Hope after repeated rape
My Horrific Nightmare
If I Were Stronger Then
Twice
In Denial of My Rape
Date Rape
When Will My Voice Be Heard
היי
You Must Acknowledge
“No” is Universal
היי לינור
A Night I Can’t Remember
Rape
Sexual Abuse
Miss
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
The Chapter Before The End
My story growing up with a secret
My Daughter and I Both
A Fun Night
Darkness With Friends
I Was Only 7
Family members ex husband
The cycle
I’m Finally Moving On
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
My story growing up with a secret
My First Time
My abuse story victim to survivor
Can Someone Help Me!
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Broken
My First Memory
Thank you
I Don’t Even Know
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Why was it my fault?
Molested
5
Husband raped? Well people don’t call it...
I Am a Survivor
I Am Brave


