#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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Exposing Rapists – A Poem
My Rapes
Erase and Rewind
He Took My Virginity
Drugged and Raped
No Power
Raped After Work
It Was Too Late
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Too much trauma
Army
Moving On
ללינור היקרה
Fenced In
היי
3 Times is Not Charming
First Frat Party
Party Time
My Rape
Spousal Rape
I didn’t fight back.
Lost Soul
It was
When I Was 8
Every Way Imaginable
First Frat Party
Domestic Rape
Hope for Healing
My case is different from yours
כמוני כמוך
Careful What You Wish For
My Story
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Unwanted Flashbacks
Too naïve
Family members ex husband
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
Extremely Terrified
April 19th
One Day At a Time
A letter to him
April 8th, 2016
The Hole in My Heart
Unknown Abuse by Biological Father
I will never forget
My First Two Times
Was it my fault
Raped by my boyfriend
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Call Me Anything But That
Close of a Brother
No Justice
Are you sure?
Man Raped By Man
I Was Just a Dancer
Breaking the Silence
Broken Girl
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Not a safe place after all
They will never know what they did...
My Best Friend’s Brother
He Was a Cop
Not Guilty
I Hate You
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
My story growing up with a secret
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
אוףףףף
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Raped in the Air Force
Too Young and Unsure
My Boyfriend
All Just Too Much
Rape
Raped in my Hostel
My Story of a Gang Rape
Waiting For Justice
My Own Family
Time To Tell
היי לינור
I am not a rape victim
Seis Años
Miss
I know when I see a rapist...
Emotional Abuse
Marital Rape
Married to my Rapist
Mi Historia
I Recorded my Rapist
Why Me Over and Over?
I don’t know what to do
The First Time
הסיפור שלי…
5 Years On
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
The Statistics that Changed Me
Braver

Scammer
A Nightmare
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Raped at age 9 & 15
Confused by Rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
It is not my fault
Never Even Knew
Speaking It
Teatime
לא יוצאים מזה…
Literal Hell
I am a Survivor
Assaulted By Family Member
My Year in Hell
Thank You
A respectable collegue
The Gentleman
Best Friends Brother
Restoring Innocence
The cycle
The Night My Life Changed
The Party I Will Never Forget
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Young and Unaware
My Life
My First Time
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
#MeToo I am 1
Identity?
In Denial of My Rape
Hope after repeated rape
Rape
23 year old virgin
The Worst Feeling
Just Words
HS Reunion
My Fears Do Not Define Me
Raped By Family Member
I Never Thought
A Night I Will Never Forget
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Choose Hope

Six Years of Denial
Ex-Boyfriend
Rape
In the Hospital
My Mother Was Raped
Beyond a story
A Message from the Director
