#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.
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A respectable collegue
Raped in the Air Force
Raped By a Family Member
He Destroyed Me
First Frat Party
I Was Only 7
Breakin Burgler
Assaulted
Was Raped
I wanted to get high
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
3 incidents
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Be Careful Who You Trust
My Story
Repeat Offender
Continue to Survive
Molested by my biological father
My Rape
I just realized this today.
To protect and serve
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Spoke out and was blamed
Identity?
Raped as a child and teen
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Feeling Alone
My Story
I’m getting Married tomorrow
My Mother Was Raped
First Friend at University
Quiet for 2 years
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I never thought it could happen to...
I thought he liked me
Unethical or illegal?
Lasting Effects
Ashamed
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
I was very dumb.
“You were lucky”
Sexual harrassment
My Own Brother
Victim of sexual assault
Friends No Longer
5 Years On
My Brother
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
My Boyfriend Raped Me
I Want to Be Brave
College Professor
Breaking the Silence
Time Heals
I like to think I won’t feel...
Need Support
J’avais 13 ans
Letter to My Rapist
In Five Years
Working Through It
He Took My Virginity
Raped as a Boy
Online dating
Stairwell
Domestic Abuse
Pastor’s Son
Finally Arrested
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
I forgot, but then I remembered
אוףףףף
So Long Ago
Still Can’t Believe It
Playing House
This Is Me, my fight song
I didn’t say no
At 13
2-4 am on January 15th
I tried to bury it for seven...
Raped at 16
Finally ready to tell my story
The Stepmonster
De Los 6 a Los 12
The pain that was never mine to...
I was 14
My First Boyfriend
My story growing up with a secret
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Recorded my Rapist
My First Time
Invictus
He was right
Domestic Rape
My Army Fiance
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
The Beach is Not Safe
Life Is Rough
Rape
Rude awakening
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Step Brother
Too naïve
I’m Still Here… Wish For Peace
הטרידו אותי
Didn’t Know Until Later
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
My Story
Gang rape and further sexual assaults
The Scapegoat of Shame an Guilt
Ended in Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
When All Hope is Gone
#metoo
Family Member
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
Scarred for life
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
My baby girl
The Party
Why Me?
More Than a Survivor
Why does this keep happening to me?
My story growing up with a secret
My Journey (sexual abuse)
You were supposed to be my friend
Erased From Memory
Piece
Rape
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Abused By My Father
I Thought I Could Trust Him
I’m Only Stronger
Darkness With Friends
Hateful
The abuser
I will never forget
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Blamed myself …
Just a Child
The Summer of 2013
Creepy Grand Uncle
Isn’t Any Proof
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Invictus
NYD
My Story
Pregnancy
Only Six
So drunk I can’t remember
My Husband Was My Attacker
Just wanted to be loved
LOST
Prescription Drugs
Why Me?
כמוני כמוך
Young and Unaware
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Mi Esposa
First Frat Party
The Same Effect
Male dancer
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Molestation
The Statistics that Changed Me
Babysitter Abuse
We met at the bar
Losing Myself
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
Molested
Thank you
My Story
Assaulted on a Holiday
Family
It Was the Second
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Scars
Sexually assaulted at 4
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Workplace Sexual Harassment
She was never the same…
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Finally Using My Voice
My Childhood
Teatime
Sex doll
Second Night of College
23 year old virgin
The Wolf and His Rabbit
Nine Years Worth of Abuse
Extremely Terrified
לא יוצאים מזה…
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
Date Rape
Drunken Rape
I was used. I got left. I...
Spousal Rape
Started With My Father
3 Different Times
Used
Learning to Live With My Rape
Just Words
Assault at 12 Years by Teacher
Myself
Why did this happen to me???
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
An Embarrassing Situation
7th Grade Assault
Not friends
Sexual Abuse
Worst Day Ever
Army
A Message from the Director
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
היי לינור
My message to all
Rape in my locked home
Obsessed Abusive Ex
An Embarrassing Situation
When i was stripped of my innocence
Keep it to myself
Forever Silent
Can’t Believe I’m Doing This
I Was Nearly Raped
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Different face, but the same monster
He was a friend
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Too drunk to remember
A story of a not so perfect...
My Fight
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Just Violated
School Does Not Care
Date gone wrong
My Daughter’s Rape
היי
my teacher grabbed me
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
“I should do this more often”
Victim Shaming
Multiple Rape
My Tramatic Experience
What If I Make You?
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Summer 2019
Over 40 years Ago
I Thought He Loved Me
I don’t know anymore
The Other Guy
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Stranger Danger
Innocence Taken
Raped by school ‘friend’
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Raped as a child and teen
Kept From Us
Unspoken
Lasting memories
Rock It!

