#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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Sexual Assault at 11
Rape
Too Far
Who Is To Blame?
So Now What?
Afraid of Being Judged
Say Something
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I was raped
“Trust me, take a chance”
Shame Destroys
Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Prom Night
Erase and Rewind
Two Times
My secret
Mi Esposa
A Life of Pain
כמוני כמוך
Jules story
Gray area?
Only I get to make choices for...
I Thought He Loved Me
Proof, but no Witnesses
Party Time
Sexual Abuse and Rape
College Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Rape By My Husband
My Mother was raped and told me...
So Many Years to Remember
He Was a Cop
My 21st Birthday
I Am A Survivor
Assaulted on a Holiday
The Statistics that Changed Me
Father Figures
No Wasn’t Good Enough
גבר אלים וחולני
Broken Girl
Un-Silenced
אוףףףף
My teacher and my step-brother
My Brothers Two Best Friends
Kibbutz
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
Was It Rape?
Child abuse
We met at the bar
הטרידו אותי
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
To my best friend who raped me
Kept From Us
My Story.
The Statistics that Changed Me
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
I am a survivor
Was it Really Rape
What even happened
Not Really Family
In My Home
Stayed Silence
Unwanted Flashbacks
De Los 6 a Los 12
Spoke out and was blamed
My First Two Times
So Many Times
The Night My Life Changed
Feeling Dirty
Finally Sharing
I don’t know who I am
The Story Of Two Rapes
Being Raped
Drugged
I am J. D. R., and I...
Thank you
Remember November
Hostage
Incest
Self Worth
the scary shadows
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Ms
Male dancer
A Lifetime of pain
I’m Not Sure
I Trusted Him
Multiple Times
Raped By a Friend
f*ck you
Mine Was Different
Raped in the Air Force
Friends are sharing
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
This Is Me, my fight song
Molested By My Cousin
When does it end?
Child Rape
I Feel So Bad For Him…
Still Hurting
Prisoner of Love
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
Incapacitated Still
היי לינור
Child abuse 9yo now 45 yo never...
Chaos
Drugged
It never stops changing you and thats...
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Date rape
I am More than a Victim
I Woke Up In The Tub
Drugged
Was Raped
My story growing up with a secret
James
You Can’t Trust Anyone
4 Years Ago
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Rape Survivor
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
Something I’ve Never Shared
Another poem about a not so perfect...
Life Was Ruined
Alcohol
It’s OK
I want my innocence back
Army
My Mother was raped and told me...
It Happened More Than Once
Victimization
Sexual Abuse
A Co-Worker
My Story, My Nightmare
Ms.
Blamed myself …
Does the pain ever go away?
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The Statistics that Changed Me
לפני 14 שנים
Six Years of Denial
I didn’t say no
Suffered and Survived
From a Boyfriend
My Story
High School Orientation
Almost Raped
Incest & Date Rape
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Marital Rape
Raped by my ex-boyfriend
Raped By Boyfriend
Kidnapped
One week and three days
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
Raped by a work colleague
About Being Raped
Mi Historia
Literal Hell
Myself
Grandpa
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
It wasn’t my fault
Abused By My Father
It Was My Fault
Call Me Anything But That
Not Over It
En Enero de 2010
Years later… meeting my rapist again
The Night My Life Got Destroyed
My Rapists I Grew Up With
Close of a Brother
הסיפור שלי…
Drunk and taken advantage of
To the man who stole my independence
To My Rapist
Not friends
Salted Wound
Rape
If I Were Stronger Then
Rock It!
