#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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He’s Still Out There
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Speaking Up for Women
The Worst Feeling
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Broken Girl
Sexual Abuse
After I Was Raped
Rape
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Chaos
Too Afraid To Tell
April 2015
Sexually Abuse
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Rape or Not?
Babysitter
I Didn’t Let It Kill Me
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
En Enero de 2010
I was just 9.
75 Percent Humidity
Drugged and Gang Raped
Drunken rape
לפני 14 שנים
Why Was No Not Enough?
my story
My Two Rapes
20 Years Later
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
הסיפור שלי…
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Rude awakening
Step Dad
Never Be the Same Again
I Trusted Him
Date Rape
I still don’t know what happened
With Love
First Love to Long Term Abuse
Secret Sorrow
Raped By a Friend
75 Percent Humidity
גבר אלים וחולני
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I am a Survivor
Spoke out and was blamed
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Abused and defeated
Holding It In
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Sally
I wanted to get high
Thank you
Now I Understand My Husband
Overcome It
Child rape
my teacher grabbed me
Kept From Us
Travel
3rd Grade Boys
Raped
Just Another Night
Finally Arrested
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
School Rape
He Was Saving Me From Me
Friends?
Childhood Horror
ללינור היקרה
Thank you for being LOUD!
Ms
Gang Rape
weird brother
Raped By Family
Seis Años
Sexual Assault by Chiropractor
My story and this amazing documentary film
Frozen in fear
My story growing up with a secret
Silence In The Family
I regret not telling
Nothing important…
They thought it was fun
I was 13
My Story
En Enero de 2010
I Was 20
Thank You
Abused By a Relative
3 Generations
Growing Past Just Surviving
Since Age 6?
Less than a Minute of my Life
My best friends dad
Lost in Europe
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
אוףףףף
Sexual Assault
Mi Historia
Stupid Coward
My Best Friend
Ms
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Family rape
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
The Man Who Never Was
Had Her Back
High School Rape
Suppose to Protect Me
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Supporting Sisters
The Statistics that Changed Me
First College Party
J’avais 13 ans
Years in Denial
Ignored
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Ignored For a Lifetime
Rape
So Long Ago But Still With Me
My Fault or His
Rape Survivor
Metoo
Surviving, Kinda
Drugged
A Private College; A Private Rape
My Story, My Nightmare
When I Was 8 Years Old
Heart broken
The abuser
My Best Friend’s Brother
Lasting memories
I know when I see a rapist...
Date Rape
David and Goliath
The Night That Changed My World
Still searching for any type of answer....
Just a Joke
Mental Breakdown
“Trust me, take a chance”
f*ck you
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
Taking Back My Life
Rape by Boyfriend
The Man in Uniform
Breaking the Trust
Rape
End of Innocence
כמוני כמוך
The Devil You Know
Set Up
Family
Blamed myself …
Help
Shelter My Soul
Male dancer
6 to 20
When does it end?
Scared
I Am Brave!
The Boys Club Continues
Disappointed
Raped By My Father
Lightening Does Strike Twice
My Untold Story
לפני 14 שנים
5 Years On
The Touches I Felt
Ms.
Army
Home from School
Survivor
