#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.
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April 2015
So Many Years to Remember
Molested by my biological father
Why Me Over and Over?
Get a bf or I’ll kick you...
A Scared Little Girl
Sexual Abuse
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Was it Really Rape
He was my best friend
Blackout
Too Many Times
Second Night of College
Letter to…
Disappointed
Raped by my step father
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Broken Trust
i was 5 , 12 , 13...
Sexual harrassment
Spoke out and was blamed
Off My Shoulders
The Statistics that Changed Me
Set Up
Mi Esposa
Read This Please
Party Accident
Date Rape
Simply My Story
Newly Living Neighbour
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Raped by boyfriend
#MeToo I am 1
The Man Who Never Was
Bringing the Stories to Light
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
My Horrific Nightmare
So drunk I can’t remember
It was
Trapped In a Fantasy World
Raped by stranger x2
J’avais 13 ans
My sisters boyfriend abused me
Warning
My Sister
Touched
No More Silence
Blackout
19 years later and still thinking about...
Drunk and taken advantage of
Summer 2019
My Snowball Effect
No More Silence
Losing My Virginity
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Lost in Europe
So Called Friends
Unbelievable
My teacher and my step-brother
But I Was Drunk
My Brother
Love of My Life?
Help
Metoo
אוףףףף
New Years Eve Party
What Happened?
I Am Brave

I Was Manipulated
Sexually abused by my step brothers
A familiar fight
Why Was No Not Enough?
The Night That Changed My Life
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
An Abnormal Reaction
Rape in my locked home
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Locked Up
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Glitter Girl, Gone.
My Modeling Experience
Broken Girl
Deep Scars
I don’t know anymore
Raped in College
Sexual Assault
Male dancer
Forgiving My Rapist
ללינור היקרה
Unethical or illegal?
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Date Rape
En Enero de 2010
Raped By 6 Policemen
Last Party
Raped in my own bed
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Keeping Faith
Being Raped
Masked Boyfriend
היי לינור
Still Rape
My story growing up with a secret
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Unlucky
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
De Los 6 a Los 12
An Abnormal Reaction
My family friend
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Your truth will change someones’ life.
My Rape
Ashly’s story
His Charming Ways
I Saved Myself
Date Rape
he made me loose hope in love…
My stepfather raped me
Repressed Memory
Alcohol
The Little Girl in Green and Blue...
Perfect on Paper
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
עדיין מציק
Date Raped
Raped by Him
A Letter to My Rapist
Public Rape
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
Off My Shoulders
Black Girl
Survivor, Still Struggling
The Girl Who Went To College
Empty
Ms.
Freshman Year
Abused By A Therapist
Raped By a Family Member
I Just Started High School
To my best friend who raped me
היי
7 years and it still controls me
I know when I see a rapist...
In The Past
Let Down
Raped and Molested
גבר אלים וחולני
The Pedophiles’ Paradise
Hospitalized
Different face, but the same monster
I Need to Tell Someone
Are you sure?
Family Member
The Same Effect
These Men are More Protected Than We...
That wasn’t too bad now was it?
End of Innocence
You had no rights
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
The Night That Changed My World
Robbery
Life Purpose
Rape
A Lifetime
Raped by Him
my teacher grabbed me
I Think I Was Raped
A letter to the monster
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I’m a functioning alcoholic
Army
November ’08
Digging my own grave
Only I get to make choices for...
הטרידו אותי
He said I wanted it
First Time
You are going to show me how...
Finally Arrested
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Is Healing Possible?
MS13
I Said No
40 years
Don’t Give Up

Fiance Father of my Child
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Warrior
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
I Trusted Him…
Returning to Mexico
The Statistics that Changed Me
I Was Only 7
Lying Child Molester
Manhandling to Rape
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Second Date
Over 40 years Ago
Ashamed
My Story
He Was My Family
Rape
לא יוצאים מזה…
Glad To Say I’m A Survivor
5th Grade
Shame
Betrayed By My Husband
Alone
הסיפור שלי…
Roommates
Stolen Innocence
At the Movie’s
And It Continues
Date rape
A respectable collegue
When I Was 8 Years Old
Despedida
I Too Was Raped
Molested by Cousin
I Was Only 14
Mi Historia
My Mom
A Story
When will it be enough?
Date Rape
In-Between Times
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Metoo
Being drunk is not consent
Short Story
It just happened
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Together, We Are Brave

A Journal of a Wayward Child
Middle School
Sex doll
Weak
Christmas Horror
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Rape
Denial
Raped at 16
My Story
The Little Girl in Green and Blue...
Two Friends and Two Boys
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Junior Prom
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
4 Years Ago
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Rude awakening
Never Forget
This Is My Story
“Me too” On Facebook
Rape By Unknown
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Black and Blue
My Story
Beyond a story
Rape
I Thought He Was My Friend
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
my story
What Was It?
Freshman Year
the scary shadows
Sexual Assault
3 Times is Not Charming
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
Sexual Abuse
Breaking the Silence
