#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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Raped
Victim No More
The same guy
Raped in my own bed
I Thought I was Safe
I don’t know anymore
I Said No
A Meek Young Girl
Breaking the Trust
Sexual Assault
I Am a Survivor…
I can’t remember if I said yes...
23 year old virgin
My Younger Sister
לא יוצאים מזה…
My teacher and my step-brother
Who is Responsible?
I Was Only 7
Dating For 10 Months When…
I blamed myself… Twice
Too naïve
“I should do this more often”
That wasn’t too bad now was it?
Kibbutz
I’m Not Easy
They asked if I was lying
Child Rape
I Don’t Even Know
My Husband Was My Attacker
So drunk I can’t remember
I’m so sorry
Sexual Abuse
Gang Rape
Letter to my offender part 2
Just Words
I Remember How It Felt
Why Me Over and Over?
Scammer
I should have STOPPED
Babysitter Abuse
A respectable collegue
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Husband Set Me Up!
Raped Husband
Finally Healing
What If I Make You?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
אוףףףף
my story-and where i “took it”…
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
Neighbor Trust
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
My Story
It never stops changing you and thats...
Worst Day Ever
The Devil You Know
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Bringing the Stories to Light
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
#MeToo 5 years later…
School Rape
An older cousin
LOST
Thick Mud
Date Rape
Off My Shoulders
Justice
My Story
My Step Father
I was raped last summer
Just Hanging Out
The Life I Live
The Stepmonster
Mistaken Identity
Unspoken
Mrs
Raped by my ex-boyfriend
Mi Historia
You were supposed to be my friend
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Today is my time to cry
גבר אלים וחולני
My story of my date rape
I Dated My Rapists
Not Safe in Your Own Family
“My Rape” at University
23 with a secret
Useless tears
Date gone wrong
My Evil Cousins
It Was My Mom
When I was 4
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
Sexual Abuse and Rape
7 years and it still controls me
Piece
Made in America
Raped at age 9 & 15
A Voice to be Heard
Knowledge is Power
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Drunken rape
ONLY the Beginning
Manhandling to Rape
Scarred for life
Family of Lies
Rape by Boyfriend
April 19th
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
An Embarrassing Situation
My Daughter and I Both
Raped After Work
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
My Snowball Effect
…
When will it be enough?
Raped by boyfriend
He Never Apologized
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Time Heals
Rape
Ashamed
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Myself
Rape
Roommates
My Story
He Took My Virginity
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
It was my ex boyfriend
Sex doll
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Not friends
Please Rape Me
Shame Destroys
A Big Man
Spoke out and was blamed
Learning to Live With My Rape
Love of My Life?
Summer 2019
Pain
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Tinder Rape
Rape inside marriage is still rape…
Nearly 50 years later
Help!! What Can I Do?
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
So Now What?
In NYC
Ms.
My Safe Place
היי
I still see him on campus
My Mother’s Albatross
Stronger Than You Think
Welcome To Adulthood
Unethical or illegal?
Metoo
Michelle Johnston
Victimization
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Confused
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Ignoring only gets so far
“raped” by my long time bf
Lost Soul
I was assaulted twice at the same...
Never Be the Same Again
לפני 14 שנים
I Was 16
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
I guess it was rape
Raped
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
My boyfriend
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
En Enero de 2010
Raped by my boyfriend
Noah
My First Memory
Seis Años
When I Was 8
I Don’t Trust My Father
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
The children are the priority here
More Witness than I Care to Live...
ללינור היקרה
I know when I see a rapist...
Over 40 years Ago
Miss
I don’t know what to think
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
Mistaken Identity
Nearly 50 years later
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
The Cliche
My 21st Birthday
Abused By A Therapist
Cavemen
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
My Own Street
Erase and Rewind
My First Time
Years later… meeting my rapist again
What’s Done Is Done
I Need to Tell Someone
Story Subject: * I thought he was...
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
The Statistics that Changed Me
Teenage Victim
Victimization
A person to trust became my worst...
My Story of a Gang Rape
At 17yr old was raped by my...
Rape
Ready to Share
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Dating & Relatives
The First Time
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
Overcome It
Second Night of College
My Two Days of Hell
Mi Esposa
A letter to my rapist
Raped by a so called friend
First Friend at University
my story
It had to be my fault.
A Journal of a Wayward Child
I Didn’t See It In Time
Years in Denial
#MeToo I am 1
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Trying To Be Better
Rape
Halting The Pain
He Was My Best Friend
Brothers
Male dancer
True Tales No One Knows
Speak Up
He Was My Father
This is MY story
Kept From Us
Teen-ager Trauma
No
I think I was raped
Hostage
I Thought I was Safe
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Raped by school ‘friend’
Okay, Not Okay
It was not my fault
More Than a Survivor
So Alone
Nearly 50 years later
I was sexually assaulted
Rape
J’avais 13 ans
The Night That Changed My World
Stolen Innocence
My dad
Taking Back My Life
Rape
Date rape
I was carrying his daughter.
Sexual Abuse
Feeling lonely and isolated
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Dad Raped Me
Convincing Myself
“No” is Universal
Rock It!

