#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. Womenโs 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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My story growing up with a secret
My case is different from yours
Mi Historia
My Beloved Man
When I Was 8
Weak
Don’t Know
I didn’t know
Returning to Mexico
Date Raped
Where did I go?
Grooming
It Was My Mom
ืืืืจ, ืืืืื, ืื ืฆื
5
I Am a Survivor…
Foreign City
My Fears Do Not Define Me
Army
First date: Raped after school at 15
My Story
I Was 16
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Loss of Trust
Manipulation
Remember as a victim you have done...
Michael B. raped me
Rape & Sexual Assault
Rape !!
Time Heals
Last Party
Date Rape
Afraid of Being Judged
So Much Pain Its Overwhelming
Endless Shame
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
My Daughter
My abuse
My Story
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
Lasting Effects
What If I Make You?
Why: A Poem About My Rape
ืืืื ื ืืืื
Every one ignored me
Fiance Father of my Child
Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Childhood Story
ืืื
My Story
I still see him on campus
Was It My Fault?
It Can Happen To Anyone
ืขืืืื ืืฆืืง
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Happy Survivor
Raped by my boyfriend
Fear
He bought me chips and sent me...
My Brother’s Best Friend
The Statistics that Changed Me
Raped By 6 Policemen
Too good to be true
Raped and Numbed
Okay, Not Okay
Summer 2019
Raped in my own bed
One Day At a Time
A letter to the monster
Not friends
This will be painful
Unethical or illegal?
3 years on
Braver

Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
Salted Wound
Molested
Date Rape
Holiday Rape
I Was Just a Little Girl
The Party
Be Strong
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Despedida
Every Time I Said “No”
Mistaken Identity
3 Strikes and No More
No Stranger
Is There Still Hope
I Didn’t See It In Time
Raped By My Neighbour
Trader Joes
I donโt know anymore
He Was A Police Officer
Assault, Battery, and Rape
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
I Don’t Even Know His Name
#IAmBrave and together, #WeAreStrong
Rape
Coercion is never consent
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
My Story of a Gang Rape
I was just 9.
My 18th Birthday
I never knew he was Satan
When does it end?
“No” is Universal
My Year in Hell
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Seis Aรฑos
Disappointed
The Life I Live
Raped Three Times
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Second Date
My Supervising Doctor
Mi Esposa
It’s OK
Still Terrified
A friend who is a rapist
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Do NOT Trust Strangers
En Enero de 2010
ืืืจืืื ืืืชื
Too naรฏve
Empty
Impacted Forever
2-4 am on January 15th
This is MY story
Drugged
Rape
Rape Is Everywhere
It Happened More Than Once
Pain
Memories Are Back
Help
Finally telling my story.
Ya perdonรฉ pero nunca olvido
Uncomfortable
My Mom
Sexual Abuse
My Relationship With Dad
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
weird brother
You were supposed to be my friend
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
Myself
#MeToo 5 years later…
Male dancer
We met at the bar
A respectable collegue
When will it be enough?
Disappointed
College Professor
Finally Arrested
In Five Years
That One Night
An Intruder
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
Confusion
Still Haunted By It
Survivor
The Beach is Not Safe
Why?
My Ex-husband
To the men who hurt me
Why Me?
I Thought I Knew Hi
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Short Story
Six months in the making..
Afraid of Being Judged
Assault
My First Boyfriend
My Fight
Molestation
The Guy I Trusted
Nirbhaya โ fearlessโ: Justice for the Brutal...
I dont know what to call it
My brother let him in
Broken Hearted
My sexual assault will not define me
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
Forgotten Memories Submerge
My First Time
Three weeks, every day..
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Still Hurting
My Fiancรฉ Destroyed Me
Why Me?
I donโt know anymore
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
High School Orientation
Last Party
No Support
Sexual Abuse
No Justice
End of Innocence
Abused and defeated
My Daughter
April 19th
God Saved Me
When I Was 8 Years Old
Revelations
I am a different me
my story
Life of Trauma
Attempted Rape
Getting Away
Rape in my locked home
Every Way Imaginable
Jโavais 13 ans
My Fiancรฉ Destroyed Me
The Same Effect
The Summer of 2013
ืืืื ืืจ ืืืงืจื
Raped by my ex-boyfriend
I was just 9.
When Will This Nightmare End
It was never…..That
Rude awakening
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Sleep Over
I Still Blame Myself
35 Years Ago
5
Married to Abuser
NYD
Remember as a victim you have done...
Cavemen
Finally Arrested
The Trauma That Made Me
Raped in the Air Force
Ms.
Marital Rape
The cycle
Thank you
Twice
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Throughout my teen years
He Was My Boss
Keeping Faith
Our Corrupted Country
Life and Death
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Undertones Throughout My Life
Just Words
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Remember November
Help…
I Didn’t Know
Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Mi Esposa
Years later… meeting my rapist again
My best friend
Spoke out and was blamed
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I know when I see a rapist...
Michelle Johnston
Can I Call It Rape?
The Cliche
High School
High School Rape
Living Nightmare
It was never…..That
Still Unable to Tell People
Innocence Taken
Rape Is Everywhere
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
ืืื ืืฉื ื ืขืืืืืช ืืงืืืืื
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
Abusรฉe par un voisin de mes grands...
Afraid of the Truth
Neglected
I Thought I Was Safe
Erased From Memory
De Los 6 a Los 12
Sex doll
First “Real” Boyfriend
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
My Side
Second Date
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
ืืกืืคืืจ ืฉืื…
I Blame Myself
Set Up
Raped at the age of 16
Raped at the Air Force Academy
My Strength
40 years
Beyond a story
Broken Girl
Tulane Law
Too Young and Unsure
Survivor

