#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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Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Child Molestation
7 years and it still controls me
Ready to Share
When Will This Nightmare End
#IStandWithHer
Raped By Family
3 years later i still wonder if...
Thick Mud
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Raped After School
Naive and Vulnerable
Lost Soul
He was a friend
One in Four
Living With Us
Rape Under Intoxication
I’m Doing You a Favor
Can’t Even Take My Medicine
Not friends
It Kills Me
Rape
Erased From Memory
I was raped last summer
Was it rape?
היי לינור
Glitter Girl, Gone.
I Am Not Brave
I lost all the important people in...
It Can Happen To Anyone
Child sexual assualt
What Should I Do?
School Rape
How My Life Has Changed
Rape
Too naïve
Finally Sharing
Just little girls
Life of Trauma
My step dad raped me
Tinder Rape
House help and cousin
In-Between Times
Love and Forced abortion
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
The Setup
I don’t know anymore
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
“Me too” On Facebook
3rd Grade Terror
My Boss Raped Me
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Night of Psychedelic Horror
He Was a Cop
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
Not A Trustworthy Man
A Week Before 18th Birthday
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Family Party
I was born for this
ptsd
I was raped by my cousin
The Touches I Felt
Childhood Rape
Drugged and Raped
Army
My Ex-husband
Be Aware
My story growing up with a secret
Drug raped
A Part of My Twenties
You’re a Rapist
Does the pain ever go away?
Sexual Assault
Left Me In Pieces
Politeness Serves No One
אוףףףף
My posting
The Day After My Little Brother’s Birthday
Erase and Rewind
My Rape
Taken advantage of
No Justice
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Testifying
Spoke out and was blamed
Warning
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Will I ever get over it.
He Was My Boyfriend
Forgotten Memories Submerge
Drugged After Junior Prom
The First Time
When I Was Three
כמוני כמוך
Life Is Rough
My best friend
לפני 14 שנים
My Story
Sexual Abuse and Rape
A Meek Young Girl
November ’08
Home from School
Married My Rapist
Fear
He Was My Best Friend
Was It Really Rape?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Kibbutz
A Journal of a Wayward Child
I Was Only 14
Holiday Rape
School Rape
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Chapter 62
A Survivor, Not a Victim
I Am a Survivor…
Male dancer
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Still Going
Ex-boyfriend rape
I was raped
לא יוצאים מזה…
Why you should talk to your daughters...
3 Times is Not Charming
My Strength
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
ללינור היקרה
His Masterpiece
Raped in the Air Force
Parental Incest Is Rape
Our Corrupted Country
His Charming Ways
Scars
When does it end?
Intimate Partner Violence
You were supposed to be my friend
I Was Only 7
I Was Only 14
Off My Shoulders
Rape in my locked home
Why Me?
Is It My Fault?
Home from School
Sex doll
An Abnormal Reaction
De Los 6 a Los 12
Just Wanted to Escape
I am a survivor
He doesn’t even know he raped me
It started with you.
Thank you for being LOUD!
In My Home
Left Me In Pieces
It was not my fault
הסיפור שלי…
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
STRONG
repeatedly
Every Time I Said “No”
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Attempt to Rape
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Chaos
Braver

Sexual Abuse
My Two Days of Hell
Sexual abuse
He Was My Boyfriend
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
Grandpa
Summer 2019
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Realization of Rape
Unknown
Date Rape
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Birthday Rape
Freshman Year
Constant fear
Drunken rape
He Was My Best Friend
My Life
House help and cousin
You Didn’t Break Me
Mi Esposa
Bringing the Stories to Light
I can say it now
Married to Abuser
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
My Daughter’s Rape
Ms.
A Long Healing Process
Unethical or illegal?
So Now What?
The Cliche
Hostage
A Cruel Time To Prevail
I was just 9.
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
The Same Effect
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Why
Molestation
Rape and Crisis
Party Time
My Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Forgiving myself
Too many to stop it
Violent Rape
It’s OK
Just Words
Date Rape Drug
Nightmare
Despedida
To the man who stole my independence
I Was 9
A familiar fight
my story
Rape
גבר אלים וחולני
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Friends?
I’m Sorry if Assaulting Me Hurt You
Raped By Family Member
A Lifetime
Hateful
Rape
The Man Who Never Was
“raped” by my long time bf
That’s not what friend means
Be Aware
Date Rape
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Date Rape?
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Unicorns
3 Days After Arriving at College
Repressed Memory
My story
In NYC
Victimization
עדיין מציק
A respectable collegue
3 Generations
It Was My Fault
So Long Ago But Still With Me
A Meek Young Girl
Smoke Together
Fled the Country
Someone I Dated
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
College Rape
There Is Hope For Us
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Rape
It’s A Long Story
Miss
Second Date
Diana Oakley’s Story
Was it rape?
I lost myself before I even knew...
En Enero de 2010
Second Night of College
Shame Destroys
My Brother
My teacher and my step-brother
Un-Silenced
My First Boyfriend
First College Party
My 18th Birthday
Being Raped
Frozen
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
My Journey (sexual abuse)
Raped in Milan
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Proof, but no Witnesses
Together, We Are Brave
