#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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An Unknown Face & Hands
Disappointed
I was raped by a youtube personality...
He used me. He left me.
STRONG
Just Playing
Fiance Father of my Child
Brother & Sister
Raped at the Air Force Academy
My Story
I Was Only 7
Still Rape
Just Fine
Mi Historia
Blaming Myself
Child sex abuse
Mi Esposa
Anal Rape
It’s A Long Story
En Enero de 2010
Date Rape
In Five Years
I should have STOPPED
14 Years, He Was Like A Brother
My best friend raped me
Do NOT Trust Strangers
My Brother, My Rapist
He Was A Police Officer
What am I doing wrong
ללינור היקרה
Erased From Memory
Raped By My Father
16 Years Later
Not normal
Politeness Serves No One
I Trusted Him
A Different MeToo
Family
He Was My Father
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Rape
My Best Friend’s Brother
Repressed Memory
Rude awakening
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
It was someone I knew and I...
The Cliche
גבר אלים וחולני
i was a child.
Feels like i am drowning
Knowledge is Power
Rape
I let it happen twice
Metoo
Memories
In The Past
Supposed To Be There
Endless Shame
The Stepmonster
My Tramatic Experience
Twice
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Sexual Abuse
No Support
Happy Birthday
College Professor
These Men are More Protected Than We...
A Beautiful Trap
Denial
Army
אוףףףף
I Thought I Was Safe
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
I Want to Live
Sexually Assaulted Abroad
Realization of Rape
Too drunk to respond
Keeping Faith
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Lasting Effects
Molested By My Cousin
לא יוצאים מזה…
Despedida
My story of my date rape
Drugged and Gang Raped
The year that changed me
She sent a Warning, and Paid for...
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A learning experience
Seis Años
I just wanted to give him a...
I can say it now
Because of You
Off My Shoulders
I wish I would have been smarter
Rape and Not Believed
Fear
Paris Nightmare
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Intimate Partner Violence
Sleep Over
Thank you for speaking out…
No More Silence
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Molested
Over 40 years Ago
More Witness than I Care to Live...
הטרידו אותי
Years later… meeting my rapist again
But I Was Drunk
Too drunk to remember
A Message from the Director
Happy Survivor
Because of You
So Many Times
I was a victim of serious child...
3 Strikes and No More
Father Figures
The same guy
What now…?
You Must Acknowledge
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Story
I Too Was Raped
Its Got To STOP!
Light In The Dark
I Never understood
Pregnancy
Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
6 to 20
Spoke out and was blamed
My Boss Raped Me
Why Me?
הסיפור שלי…
Secret overload
Too Afraid To Tell
Too drunk to respond
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Home from School
The Trauma That Made Me
The reason for my tattoo
De Los 6 a Los 12
Violated
Michelle Johnston
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Raped in a Psychiatric Hospital in the...
Rape
That’s not Me, it’s Her
My Father
So drunk I can’t remember
so forceful
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
My rape story
I know when I see a rapist...
Sexually Assaulted as a Child
3 incidents
I Really Want To Forget About It
Just Words
Was it my fault?
A Private College; A Private Rape
Never Got Over It
Broken Trust
Molestation
University Bar
4th grade
My Fight
Rape
A letter to my rapist
Red Flags
my story
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Why did this happen to me???
Bleeding Through My Tears
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Creepy Grand Uncle
Sex doll
I blamed myself… Twice
My step dad raped me
Let’s Fight Back With Love
My Story
He Was My Best Friend
It’s Been 10 Years
Think About It Everyday
The Statistics that Changed Me
Prom Night
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
Nightmare
Raped By My Therapist
My story growing up with a secret
Repressed Memory
Perfect on Paper
LOST
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
We go to the same church
Unethical or illegal?
Raped Husband
She Should Be Over It
Marital Rape
I was too young to know what...
Be Aware
Raped
My Ex-husband
Father, Brother, Brother
Innocence
So Many Years to Remember
Your truth will change someones’ life.
A Silent Fighter
Continue to Survive
Becoming a Warrior
I thought he liked me
Ms.
The Night That Changed My Life
Confused by Rape
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Raped in the Air Force
Summer 2019
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
School Rape
Never Even Knew
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
April 8th, 2016
I was raped and didn’t know
Can I Call It Rape?
To My Rapist
dad and mom rape
Pastor’s Son
April 19th
יש חיים אחרי אונס
The Night That Changed My World
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Camp rape
Groomed
Rape
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
היי
Molested at 3
A respectable collegue
When I Was 8 Years Old
Halloween Nightmare
J’avais 13 ans
I didn’t even know what was happening
#MeToo, too
my rape
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
My Journey Back to Life
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
כמוני כמוך
Drugged and Gang Raped
i was a child.
I am a survivor
How can we make it stop?
Who Is To Blame?
I Want My Life Back
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
My Story
Molested
The Boys Club Continues
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Inspired
I Slept Next to Him
I Thought I was Safe
Memories
My Multiple-Offender Rape
It Kills Me
His opportunity
Use and Throw
High School Rape
Secret Sorrow
What Happened?
Help
Myself
You Were My Friend
“Me too” On Facebook
Braver

