#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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Childhood Friend Date Rape
My Snowball Effect
Felt safe in my friend group
Me Too!
Dear Coward
5 Years On
I Thought I Could Trust Him
I know when I see a rapist...
Senior Trip
I thought you loved me
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I Came Home
Molested at 3
Rape and Not Believed
Rape
Battling
Too Trusting
I’m Doing You a Favor
Don’t Walk By Yourself
Effort To Survive
Coercion is never consent
I was raped last summer
A respectable collegue
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
I still hate him
Can I Call It Rape?
Too naïve
Ms.
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Teatime
Prom Night
My Mother’s Albatross
I am More than a Victim
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
Mrs.
He Took My Virginity
Why Me Over and Over?
My Own Brother
My Story
Child sexual assualt
Touched
Miss
Seis Años
My story
Ex-Boyfriend
Staying Strong
Rape
I just realized this today.
The Night That Changed Me
Myself
My Story
Summer 2019
Confused and Angry
5
A Rough Life
Raped in the Air Force
Workplace Sexual Harassment
When will it be enough?
En Enero de 2010
My boss
I Barely Knew Them
Rape
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Never a Victim; Only Myself
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Finally Sharing
Drunk and taken advantage of
My life changed on the day I...
It started with you.
Finally Arrested
We met at the bar
The First Time
Hard Time
Stolen Innocence
Protect and Served and Raped
He bought me chips and sent me...
So drunk I can’t remember
Too naïve
My First Time
By my friend
Quarterly Review
Confronting My Step-Father
High School Orientation
Chaos
יש חיים אחרי אונס
J’avais 13 ans
Scared and Confused
כמוני כמוך
First “Real” Boyfriend
לפני 14 שנים
I’m 17 and I’m over it
Mi Historia
All men are the same
Myself
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
Tormented
Weak
Coping with rape during a pandemic
My 19 year old cousin
Feeling Lost
Second Night of College
5
It was
Mistaken Identity
He gave me to his friend
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Date Raped at 19
Once Again
Metoo
I Was 3 Years Old
עדיין מציק
I was only 11
I Trusted Him
Thank you for being LOUD!
Thank You
Left Me In Pieces
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Just Violated
PART 3: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Unfair
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
I buried the pain
7th Grade Assault
My Interview
two years ago
Enough Is Enough
Sexual Assault
Liberating Moment
So Alone
Another poem about a not so perfect...
Another kid raped me
I’m Confused
Incest
Family members ex husband
Letter to My Rapist
First Frat Party
Sexually assaulted several times
אוףףףף
I don’t know what to do
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
Survivor
