#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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My babysitter
Hard to Trust
The Statistics that Changed Me
Attempt to Rape
Incest & Date Rape
Aftermath
גבר אלים וחולני
Second Night of College
Throughout my teen years
Leaving the party
Living With Us
Raped
I can say it now
My Rape
Politeness Serves No One
Confused by Rape
7 years and it still controls me
My story
Naive College Freshman
My Story
The Trauma That Made Me
Raped because of who I loved
Are you sure?
יש חיים אחרי אונס
He was right
Metoo
Molested By a Stranger
Still Think It Was My Fault
All Just Too Much
April 2015
My Best Friend
Sexually abused by my step brothers
אוףףףף
Sexual Abuse
I Am Still Standing
You Didn’t Break Me
Ex-Boyfriend
Unethical or illegal?
I am a Survivor
Date rape
My Rape
Do NOT Trust Strangers
The First Time
Date Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Sharing #MeToo’s
Abused as a Child
Ashly’s story
My Last Party
Too naïve
Spoke out and was blamed
We met at the bar
Rape
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Was It Rape?
Second Night of College
blackmailed
My stepfather raped me
My message to all
My Mother’s Albatross
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Teenage Victim
No one owns your story but you
Rape
Betrayed By My Own Mind
A respectable collegue
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
An Acquaintance
My Story
I said no
So drunk I can’t remember
My sisters boyfriend abused me
First Frat Party
More Than Once
Just Words
Assaulted
It wasn’t my fault
Rape
Date Rape Drug
surviving rape from my dad
Confused and Angry
Glitter Girl, Gone.
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
היי לינור
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
3 years on
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
Scared Like Crazy
I still see him on campus
My Story
Afraid of the Truth
Camilla’s Story
Myself
Speaking Up
Despedida
It was someone I knew and I...
Enough Is Enough
Confronting My Step-Father
Childhood of assault
Me Too!
A Lifetime
Rape
Only I get to make choices for...
Sex doll
My step dad raped me
Let Down
Will I ever get over it.
My Rape Story
Raped By My Biological Father
Bad Decisions
@ years of rape and being drugged
High School Orientation
Broken Girl
Raped By a Friend
My First Time
Multiple Rapes
Someone I Dated
I am a survivor
Dear My Rapist
Not Okay
4 Years Ago
Freshman Year
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Workplace Sexual Harassment
7th Grade Assault
What even happened
Confused
I Am a Survivor
I said no – but he took...
Travel
They thought it was fun
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Unspoken
My Classmate
Healing from Incest
My Story
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Feeling Alone
I Don’t Trust My Father
Foreign City
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
They Blamed it on the Tequila
כמוני כמוך
14 year old raped at school
Fenced In
Marital Rape
The Summer of 2013
Erase and Rewind
Dad Touching Me
Childhood Rape
A horror that lasts a lifetime
Different face, but the same monster
High School Orientation
My Step Brother Raped Me
My Story
LOST
Summer 2019
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Still Rape
A Meek Young Girl
College Student
Too Far
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
I Choose Hope

He Was a Friend
I Am Not Brave
My best friend
Raped By Boyfriend
He took away my innocence
Birthday Rape
I Thought He Loved Me
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
Rape
ללינור היקרה
I guess it was rape
Shame Destroys
Beyond a story
It’s A Long Story
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
My Story
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Thank you
לפני 14 שנים
En Enero de 2010
I was raped
Finding Me
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Camp rape
Married My Rapist
Raped by boyfriend
Camp rape
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
עדיין מציק
Raped in the Air Force
Rape and Not Believed
My Brother’s Best Friend
I Want to Live
Rape Survivor
Domestic Abuse
Repressed Memory
הטרידו אותי
I Am A Survivor
So Now What?
Someone so close to me
Incest
My story growing up with a secret
Its Got To STOP!
Family Member
Raped By My Therapist
Dream / Recall
Stolen innocence
Life of Trauma
This Is Me, my fight song
I Still Blame Myself
Overtaken Twice
Help!! What Can I Do?
My Story
Ms.
Sexual abuse
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Red Flags
הסיפור שלי…
Walk Me?
Stuck
This Is My Story
Life Is Rough
Thank You
Six months in the making..
Michelle Johnston
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
You had no rights
Be Careful Who You Trust
Babysitters
Who Is To Blame?
Fear Became a Part of My Life
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Supposed To Be There
Male dancer
My Two Days of Hell
I’m the Slut. I Must’ve Wanted It.
Rape
Step Dad
Rape
Raped and Molested
Aftermath
De Los 6 a Los 12
Incapacitated Still
Life Is Rough
Erase and Rewind
I was raped last summer
My Story
My Sister and I were Abused
Bruises and Scars
Braver


