#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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You Were My Friend
Healing and releasing painful memories
PART 1: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Sex doll
I Was a Fool for Him
Stronger Every Day
Fishing Trips
Cavemen
#MeToo I am 1
My First Time
אוףףףף
Rape
Be Careful Who You Trust
Stranger Danger
Molestation
Touching
Finally ready to tell my story
Childhood End
Raped at the Air Force Academy
On the Way Home
Believe Her
Rape
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Because of You
Mi Esposa
Letter to my offender part 2
It will get better
MY Inspirational Story
I Barely Knew Them
Keeping Faith
Just a Joke
The Night My Life Changed
Permanently Scarred
Second Night of College
A respectable collegue
Did I ask for it?
Help
Weathering The Storm
You Were My Brother’s Best Friend
Started With My Father
Travelling
We met at the bar
First Time Sharing
sexual assault & abuse
Manipulation
Shout Out
Raped By My Father
Third time’s the charm
I don’t know anymore
My Mother Was Raped
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
Smoke Together
Date Rape
Three Times in a Row
Torn
Raped by a US Marine when I...
Wide awake
Spoke out and was blamed
A Night To Remember
My Story
My Own Brother
Say Something
An Embarrassing Situation
Me too.
What’s Done Is Done
Raped in the Air Force
A Self Destructive Life
You Must Acknowledge
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
I am a survivor
Mi Esposa
Last Party
I Thought He Was My Friend
Beyond a story
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
Still Going
Don’t Know
היי לינור
My principal mom raped me
Still Can’t Believe It
Kibbutz
I Trusted Him
Keeping Faith
Brave
He used me. He left me.
היי
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
New Years Eve
Betrayed
Continue to Survive
Metoo
Stuck
Raped
Not just me
After Wedding
כמוני כמוך
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Kibbutz
הסיפור שלי…
לפני 14 שנים
Father Figure
I Was Raped By An Stranger
My message to all
Ms.
Drugged
I was raped
Still Need Help
Since Age 6?
But I Was Drunk
Sexual harassment
Despedida
ללינור היקרה
When Is Rape Actually Rape?
ITS BEEN 18 YEARS
My Mom
Was almost raped and no one did...
I Thought He Loved Me
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
My sexual assault will not define me
My story growing up with a secret
Molested and Confused
I called him my friend
I Am More Than It
It was in a society that told...
I Recorded my Rapist
7th Grade Assault
To protect and serve
Party Time
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
My Mother’s Albatross
Life of Trauma
Males can be victims too
2 Years Ago
So Now What?
Rape
Finally Sharing
I wish I never knew
Being Raped
Scared Like Crazy
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Only I get to make choices for...
Incapacitated Still
Unethical or illegal?
The Stepmonster
Lifetime of Abuse
Not normal
Myself
Going Through the Emotions
My First Memory
Murky Memories
25 years of fear
Bullied for Reporting Sexual Assault
Trauma
I Thought It Was Normal
Too naïve
My husband was molested as a child
Date Rape
Assault In the Family
Constant fear
When does it end?
Was It Rape
Date Rape Drug
Abusive Relationship
Rape and Not Believed
Finally Sharing
His opportunity
No
Male dancer
New Years Eve Party
Rape??
I Barely Knew Them
I know when I see a rapist...
Childhood Rape
Innocence Taken
He Was My Boyfriend
I didn’t think she would do this
I wish I would have been smarter
Nothing important…
Army
Family Ties
Drugged and Gang Raped
March 1, 2008
Restoring Innocence
I Am Brave

You were supposed to be my friend
Touched
A Long Healing Process
Summer 2019
Brother in Law
Why Me Over and Over?
Four Years Ago
A Voice to be Heard
Sexual Abuse
Love and Forced abortion
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
How My Life Has Changed
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
A Voice to be Heard
The Boys Club Continues
Help
He Destroyed Me
Finally facing it
So Now What?
It Can Happen To Anyone
He’s Dead
Can Anyone Help?
Raped by Him
יש חיים אחרי אונס
גבר אלים וחולני
Charity is it’s own reward
My younger brother
My Story
My best friend
Seis Años
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Healing and releasing painful memories
Two Friends and Two Boys
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
We met at the bar
Bad Morning
I was a victim of serious child...
Feeling Alone
…
Raped by my boyfriend
My Story, My Nightmare
From Grief to Trauma
עדיין מציק
My stepfather raped me
A Meek Young Girl
So drunk I can’t remember
הטרידו אותי
Someone I Dated
Raped by my step father
Sexual Assault
Army
Raped by my grandfather
Just Hanging Out
לא יוצאים מזה…
I thought he was a friend
Mi Historia
I was only 11
She was never the same…
I was born for this
Scars
My Mother was raped and told me...
J’avais 13 ans
Weak
Date rape
Just Words
Let Down
I Am Still Standing
Trader Joes
Metoo
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Family Member
My rape story
My Husband Set Me Up!
En Enero de 2010
Raped by ex boyfriend
Scared and Confused
No Stranger
A Night Out
Another Victim
Thank You
I Was Only 7
I was raped
St. Louis Riots
40 years
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Erase and Rewind
From Heaven to Hell
my story
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
Two Times
Losing My Virginity
Why Me Over and Over?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
SA in school
You made me feel like I was...
Forgiving The Rapist
Day at the Lake
It was not my fault
I’m Unbroken and So Are You
First Time Sharing
The First Time
It changed me
Deep Scars
The Statistics that Changed Me
Sexually assaulted as a young girl
Being Raped
Being Done
I Woke Up In The Tub
Male dancer
i was a child.
Remember November
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
My Mother was raped and told me...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My Own Brother
Different face, but the same monster
My brother let him in
I don’t know if it’s rape
Your First
My Trauma(s)
Date Raped When I Was 15
An Unknown Face & Hands
Ex
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Drug raped
No Longer Silent
Rape survivor
Forgiving My Rapist
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