#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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Too naïve
My Story
Rape
The Day Everything Changed
The Same Effect
I Thought I Was Safe
Multiple Date Rapes/Sexual Abuse During Teen Years...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I Was Only 7
Male dancer
I was born for this
Ketamine Rape
My First Boyfriend
Forced, De-flowered
First Frat Party
Ready to Share
Did He Rape My Mind Too
Now It’s Too Late
My Boyfriend Raped Me
J’avais 13 ans
Myself
Trapped In a Fantasy World
En Enero de 2010
Repressed Memory
My story growing up with a secret
I know when I see a rapist...
Proof, but no Witnesses
Cousin Rape
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Chaos
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Football Player
My First Memory
Unknown Abuse by Biological Father
Salted Wound
University Bar
ללינור היקרה
כמוני כמוך
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Mi Historia
Fled the Country
A Ruined Life
Betrayed By My Own Mind
weird brother
Raped by My Ex
5
Thought He Was A Friend
3x
I Thought I was Safe
Why Me Over and Over?
Was It Rape
They asked if I was lying
Did I ask for it?
Date Rape
Thank you for speaking out…
I’m so sorry
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Raped in the Air Force
A young mother
Trying to Survive
It Can Happen To Anyone
Newly Living Neighbour
Two Friends and Two Boys
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Rape
My Oldest Friend
היי לינור
Was It My Fault?
Party Time
Just a Joke
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Four Years Ago
Why Me, Time and Time Again
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
Loss of Trust
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Family
Brave
The Statistics that Changed Me
הטרידו אותי
Second Night of College
I wish I would have been smarter
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
First “Real” Boyfriend
My Mother was raped and told me...
Mi Esposa
Touching
Spoke out and was blamed
Mental Breakdown
Brock and Will
The Night It All Changed
You Must Acknowledge
Broken to Bold
Raped by stranger x2
The Statistics that Changed Me
Bad Morning
Childhood Abuse
Rape Survivor
Sexually assaulted at 4
I Was Just a Dancer
My Story
Continue to Survive
This Is Me, my fight song
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
I think my “boyfriend” raped me
Summer 2019
My Year in Hell
Isn’t Any Proof
Army
Date Rape Drug
הסיפור שלי…
raped by my own brother
Confused
My Story.
Forced to Have Sex with My Boyfriend
4 Years Ago
Shame
Not Sure It Happened
Seis Años
“raped” by my long time bf
It was my ex boyfriend
The Hole in My Heart
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
I Want to Live
My rape story
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
Off My Shoulders
Tormented
Repressed Memories x3 Abusers
Broken
Getting Away
I’m Over Reacting
Ketamine Rape
Manipulation
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
My Fight
The Girl Who Went To College
A respectable collegue
Runaway Model
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Made in America
I thought he liked me
Rape
Poetry
Happy Hell-oween
My sexual assault will not define me
I Am A Survivor
Male dancer
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
My sisters boyfriend abused me
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Warrior
Just Hanging Out
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Staying Strong
Marital Rape and the abuser in my...
Less than a Minute of my Life
Running With Bare Feet
Everyone loves him
J’avais 13 ans
Stranger
He took away my innocence
Raped
Off My Shoulders
He was my best friend
Tormented
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Stong Woman
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Prey
Doctor Nightmares
Sex doll
Breaking the Trust
LOST
My Husband Set Me Up!
Sexually Assaulted or Not?
My Story
Middle school sexual harassment
Mi Esposa
Drugged
#IStandWithHer
Grandpa
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Childhood Friend Date Rape
Rape
Every Way Imaginable
Doctor Nightmares
A person to trust became my worst...
Sexual Abuse
Restoring Innocence
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Why me?
Abuse Continued
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Rape
Still Going
Repressed Memory
Piece
Bringing the Stories to Light
3 balls, striking
Is It My Fault?
Step Daddy
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
16 times
Multiple Times
I thought he was a friend
Rape or Not?
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Make Me Proud
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Betrayed By a Loved One
Unethical or illegal?
Say Something
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Relationship does not equal consent
אוףףףף
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
I Was Raped By An Stranger
Date Rape
Student Exchange
Family Rape
My Healing Journey
Family rape
Sexual Assault
More Than Half of My Life Ago
I thought we were friends
I got away
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Just Words
Despedida
Kibbutz
my story
Shout Out
Rape & Sexual Assault
He Was Saving Me From Me
Never Lose Hope
Rape !!
Repeat Offender
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
Trapped
I was 14
A Voice to be Heard
Rape
Assaulted on a Holiday
De Los 6 a Los 12
My Boss Raped Me
Sexual Abuse
Ms.
In the Hospital
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
Raped by my step father
#MeToo I am 1
A Meek Young Girl
My survival story
My Story of a Gang Rape
Methed for Math Teacher
Mrs
My Friend’s House
Speaking It
Raped in Foster care
Rape
With Love
A young mother
Obsessed Abusive Ex
עדיין מציק
I’m Not Easy
He Was a Cop
I Choose Hope


