#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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I’ve survived sexual abuse
Victim of Abuse
I Was Only 7
הסיפור שלי…
Raped in College
Summer 2019
But I Was Drunk
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
was raped and I don’t remember it
I know when I see a rapist...
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Unethical or illegal?
Harassment at Work
Rape
Too Many Times
Kidnapped
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Story of My Life
My Interview
Rape
15
Breaking the Trust
Raped Three Times
I Barely Knew Them
rape
I Told Him No
Too naïve
Raped by stranger x2
Mi Historia
Short Story
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Happy Survivor
Spring Break
My story
The Hole in My Heart
היי
What Is Success?
I Didn’t Know What Happened
Did He Rape Me?
I guess it was rape
I was too young to know what...
Male dancer
Never Wanted to Believe
הטרידו אותי
I didn’t know what to do
In Denial of My Rape
Child Abuse
Empty
But what really happened?
I want my innocence back
My Daughter and I Both
Breaking the Silence

First Frat Party
If I Were Stronger Then
Erase and Rewind
Freshman Year
Scars
Sexual Assault Does NOT Define You
My Mother’s Albatross
My message to all
Thank You
How Many Times?
He Loved Me
Ready to Share
Do you believe me?
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Family
Never Going To Happen To Me
The Touches I Felt
Sexual Abuse
כמוני כמוך
Halloween 2014
Second Date
Too drunk to respond
4 Years Ago
Now It’s Too Late
Ex-Boyfriend
Sexual Assault
En Enero de 2010
Sex doll
Mi Esposa
Ready to Share
Warning
Twice a pattern?
Broken
He Was My Dad
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
Losing My Virginity
A Loss to Mankind
Drugged
25 years of fear
I Was Only 14
I Woke Up In The Tub
It never stops changing you
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Metoo
My Two Cents
My teacher and my step-brother
The Trauma That Made Me
3 years on
So drunk I can’t remember
My Rapists I Grew Up With
לא יוצאים מזה…
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Raped in Foster care
Rape
When I Was 8
Do you believe me?
Light In The Dark
Someday Soon
Breaking the Silence
Bringing the Stories to Light
Shame
Simply My Story
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Trusted Him
Molested by my biological father
Me too.
My Journey Back to Life
My Year in Hell
My story growing up with a secret
Being weak or stupid
3 Times is Not Charming
A Week Before 18th Birthday
At the Movie’s
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
I wish I could change the past
עדיין מציק
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Was It Rape
Army
Lasting memories
I called him my friend
School Prom
I Need To Share More
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
The Devil You Know
Pregnancy
Our Corrupted Country
The Cliche
Rape
I Thought I Knew Hi
I was a kid, you were my...
Growth
My Brave Daughter
Shattered
Surpris à la Maison
silent rape
I Said No
I Am Not Brave
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
My Story
My Story
Dear Convicted Sex Offender (Finally)
35 Years Ago
Breaking the silence
Just Fine
The Man Who Never Was
innocent
Ms.
Lotus
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Being Done
More Than Half of My Life Ago
20 Years Later
My Last Party
Dating For 10 Months When…
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Shattered Childhood
My Only Brother
This Is My Story
random rape
At the Movie’s
When Does It End
Never Ending
A person to trust became my worst...
I Was Raped as a Child
April 8th, 2016
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Assaulted on a Holiday
Raped in the Air Force
Help
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
Childhood Horror
My Story
Molestation
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
My Journey Back to Life
i was pulling my shorts up
Stranger
My Horrific Nightmare
I’m Doing You a Favor
My Own Brother
An Intruder
Rape
How I Was Raped
Holding My Feelings In
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
Alcohol
Mrs.
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Raped By a Family Member
לפני 14 שנים
A respectable collegue
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Still Terrified
I’m Not Easy
The abuser
ptsd
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Breaking Trust
The Statistics that Changed Me
Why Me Over and Over?
De Los 6 a Los 12
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
My childhood
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
I was very dumb.
Two Strangers in a Park
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
Nobody believed me
I was attacked at 19 years old
A Message from the Director

Need help
Set Up
Despedida
Not A Trustworthy Man
Shelter My Soul
Are you sure?
Prom Night
My life as a survivor
I Was Just a Dancer
He was right
Twice
7 years and it still controls me
“My Rape” at University
My Mother was raped and told me...
The Devil You Know
Spoke out and was blamed
Date Rape
ללינור היקרה
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
J’avais 13 ans
Knowledge is Power
Forgotten Memories Submerge
I wish I never knew
I Blame Myself
I didn’t fight back.
Speaking Up
Survivor, Still Struggling
My Father
Molested
Broken down car
Rape Is Everywhere
Sleepraping
A Ruined Life
Raped at 16
I can’t remember before it started
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Raped By My Therapist
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
April 19th
Just Another Night
75 Percent Humidity
It was not my fault
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
My Year in Hell
Rape By Unknown
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
It’s my fault
Drunk and Alone
I thought it was my fault
Camp rape
Thank you for being LOUD!
Freshman Year
Two Friends and Two Boys
I forgot, but then I remembered
Rape
היי לינור
Nobody Knows
I Trusted Him
Was it rape? Or my fault?
I’m Not Easy
I Thought I Knew Him
גבר אלים וחולני
The Hole in My Heart
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Was It Rape?
It Was the Second
I’ll Never Be Whole Again
I let it happen twice
In Five Years
Raped 14 times in 1 year
The Boys Club Continues
Stepfather
Seis Años
I Didn’t Let It Kill Me
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Ex-husband
Just Words
Rude awakening
Braver
