#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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I know when I see a rapist...
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
Remember November
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
I Barely Knew Them
Sexual abuse by brother
my story
Was Told to Shut My God Damn...
Tinder Rape
I Remember Being Happy
My Brother’s Best Friend
I Was Only 14
I’m so sorry
My Rapists I Grew Up With
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
My Younger Sister
Raped Three Times
Almost Raped
Why I’m sorry
Sexual Abuse
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Story
My Evil Brother
I Was Only 7
Mi Historia
Student Exchange
University Bar
I still don’t know
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
The Beach is Not Safe
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Step Brother Raped Me
Why does this keep happening to me?
היי לינור
Not normal
Living Nightmare
My story growing up with a secret
4 short stories of sexual aggresion
Myself
Blackout
Why me?
sexual assault
Growing Past Just Surviving
My Rape Stories
The secret
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Party Time
So Young
Friend of my Husband
Did He Rape My Mind Too
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Shout Out
Rapist Turned Murderer
Second Night of College
Was It My Fault?
Secretly Molested
Rape
Shitty nights
De Los 6 a Los 12
I still feel like it’s my fault
Night Out
Does the pain ever go away?
16 times
Being a Girl Is Not Fair
Incest
Childhood of assault
גבר אלים וחולני
He Was My Friend
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
My Story
What Was It?
היי
My Rape Stories
Ms.
Married to Abuser
was raped and I don’t remember it
הטרידו אותי
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Intruded
f*ck you
I still don’t know what happened
Am I Over Reacting?
What sent me over the edge
That Night
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Spring Break
ללינור היקרה
Raped as a Boy
Just wanted to be loved
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Date Rape
i just want to tell someone.
The Statistics that Changed Me
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Ashamed
ONLY the Beginning
Not friends
he made me loose hope in love…
@ years of rape and being drugged
Speaking Up for Women
Anal Rape
Different face, but the same monster
Blaming Myself
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Victim Impact Statement
Unethical or illegal?
Male dancer
To my best friend who raped me
Stranger Danger
“My Rape” at University
Why Me, Time and Time Again
Erased From Memory
Too drunk to respond
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
I didn’t break up with him back...
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
No More Silence
My Mother’s Life Partner Sexually Harrased Me...
My Boyfriend Raped Me
3x
My Innocence Was Taken Away
I was molested and raped at 6
Flashbacks
My Year in Hell
Cavemen
Rape
Proof, but no Witnesses
Just Words
Gang Rape At 15 Years Old
I Was Nearly Raped
Why was it my fault?
Didn’t Know I Had Been Raped
3 Times is Not Charming
First Friend at University
Hundreds of Times
I wish I would have been smarter
Rape survivor
7th Grade Assault
A night gone wrong
He Was My Friend
Sex doll
With Love
College Rape
I’m Now a Statistic
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Sexual Assault and Depression
Army
The year that changed me
Brock and Will
Amusement Park
לפני 14 שנים
Life Purpose
Too Close for Comfort
Raped
A Victim No Longer
Finally Sharing
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
How can we make it stop?
Drugged and Raped
A Fun Game
Does “No” mean nothing?
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
3 years on
Beyond a story
My posting
Bad Programming
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Circumstances Collided That Night
Don’t Give Up


