#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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The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Unethical or illegal?
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
My Life History
My Rape
Erase and Rewind
Ready to Share
Male dancer
De Los 6 a Los 12
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
ללינור היקרה
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Rape
16 times
My husband raped me when I took...
Scared and Confused
Mi Historia
Supporting Sisters
Summer 2019
Was it rape?
When will it be enough?
En Enero de 2010
God Saved Me
My biggest mistake
Sex doll
Love and Forced abortion
Rape inside marriage is still rape…
I know when I see a rapist...
Mine Was Different
Smoke Together
Not normal
Just a Kid
Dad Raped Me
Innocence
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Third time’s the charm
I’m a functioning alcoholic
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Just Words
Myself
I thought he was a friend
Mrs
The Aftermath
Is Healing Possible?
What Happened?
לפני 14 שנים
Not normal
Over 40 years Ago
I didn’t know what to do
Violated
That’s not Me, it’s Her
Date Rape
Despedida
Ketamine Rape
My abuse story victim to survivor
My Story
Michelle Johnston
13 and 16
Some Friend
Out of Control
A respectable collegue
A not so perfect family exposed to...
Halloween Nightmare
Gang Rape
My story
היי לינור
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
my story
An Unknown Face & Hands
silent rape
My step dad raped me
My Two Days of Hell
Ms
Drugged
Drugged and Gang Raped
Dear My Rapist
Seis Años
When does it end?
Too naïve
No Justice
Raped After Work
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Broken Trust
So Many Years to Remember
Another kid raped me
A Story
Raped in Foster care
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
So Long Ago
The Woods Don’t Speak
So Young
06.05.2006
How Could It Have Happened
Did I ask for this?
Pregnancy
Ashamed
לא יוצאים מזה…
Repressed Memory
First College Party
Knowledge is Power
This Is My Story
I Choose Hope

A story of a not so perfect...
Why you should talk to your daughters...
What Should I Do?
My Last Party
Molestation
Help…
You Were My Friend
So Now What?
Salted Wound
Never Wanted to Believe
Use and Throw
I was used. I got left. I...
Him or Me
Mi Esposa
I don’t know what to do
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
J’avais 13 ans
He was right
Dad Raped Me
Lying Child Molester
Today, I Let It All Go
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Scar
Childhood Abuse
Raped
2 Years Ago
Off My Shoulders
Virgin Rape
Never Again
Lost In Time
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Unicorns
Sexual Abuse
I don’t know who I am
The First Time
Cousin Rape
Halloween Nightmare
Rape
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A super long account of a day...
Just Another Night
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A School Trip
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
He Took My Virginity
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
My story growing up with a secret
Daycare
40 years
Spoke out and was blamed
Party Time
My Childhood
Drugged
Locked Up
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
הסיפור שלי…
Multiple Assaults
גבר אלים וחולני
The Statistics that Changed Me
My Step Brother
My Mother Was Raped
Fear
Football Player
Nearly 50 years later
Freshman Year
So Many Times
I Am Brave!
No Justice
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
School Rape
To the man who stole my independence
It’s OK
Lightening Does Strike Twice
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
So Many Years to Remember
In The Past
עדיין מציק
After Wedding
Set Up
What If I Make You?
Still Can’t Believe It
How I Was Raped
Once Again
Every Way Imaginable
My Fight
Rape
Dee Bhagwanji
Tinder Rape
My 21st Birthday
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Too drunk to respond
Hard Time
אוףףףף
random rape
Black Out
I didn’t know
I don’t know anymore
My Rape Stories
Tormented
It was not my fault
I said no – but he took...
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Raped By a Friend
So Young
2 Strangers
The Boys Club Continues
Unhealthy Relationship
Rape
Cousin Rape
Brother & Sister
Army
My Younger Sister
I Too Was Raped
Literal Hell
More Witness than I Care to Live...
I was too young to know what...
An Unknown Face & Hands
Intimate Partner Violence
I Was Manipulated
Everyone loves him
Incest & Date Rape
Thought He Was A Friend
Alone and Afraid
Freshman Year
Never Going To Happen To Me
Dream / Recall
Sexual Assault
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I Felt So Helpless
Broken
New Years Eve
Kidnapped in Naples
הטרידו אותי
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Black Girl
It never seems like Rape to me
Raped by a US Marine when I...
Two Times
The Night That Changed Me
Off My Shoulders
The Party I Will Never Forget
A friend who is a rapist
Step Dad
Not Sure It Happened
No one helped me !!!
Just Hanging Out
Still Unable to Tell People
Workplace Sexual Harassment
It wasn’t my fault
Abused By A Therapist
Lying Child Molester
High School Orientation
Moving On
I thought he was a friend
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I still see him on campus
Sex Slave
More Than a Survivor
Still Terrified
Married to Abuser
It wasn’t my fault
Girl Raped By a Girl
Relationship does not equal consent
Raped in my own bed
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
My Snowball Effect
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
Raped and Almost Raped and Harassed
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
My Daughter and I Both
Rock It!

There once was love
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Sexual Assault
So drunk I can’t remember
He was my best friend
The Trauma That Made Me
Ashly’s story
Raped On My Bday
10 Years!
Isn’t Any Proof
Molested by my brother as a child
Memories Are Back
Foreign City
Together, We Are Brave

