#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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Raped because of who I loved
Virgin Rape
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Date Rape
Friends are sharing
Raped in the Air Force
My 11 Year Old Selfs Story
My Fight
Betrayal
Why me?
Mi Historia
Two Friends and Two Boys
Help
Rape
Not Alone
Trapped
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
I Said No
There Is Hope For Us
De Los 6 a Los 12
My First Time
Seis Años
I Didn’t See It In Time
Abused as a Child
Letter to My Rapist
Still Haven’t Healed
Twice
Hope for Healing
surviving rape from my dad
The Summer of 2013
But what really happened?
Bus Ride Of Missing Hope
Does the pain ever go away?
My Modeling Experience
It’s A Long Story
For the guy
How Many Times?
My Best Friend
Why me?
Stronger Every Day
At 17yr old was raped by my...
Time Stood Still
ללינור היקרה
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Ex Best Friend
So drunk I can’t remember
Who is Responsible?
Are you sure?
Happy Birthday
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Continue to Survive
Scars
High School Orientation
She was never the same…
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
Being weak or stupid
Molested By a Stranger
Mrs
Thank you
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Was it rape?
Family Member
Military Man
Mi Esposa
Lying Child Molester
Despedida
I don’t know anymore
Scared Like Crazy
Family and Friends
En Enero de 2010
My boyfriend
Breaking The Silence
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
I’m Confused
Memories
Someone I should be able to trust
It was my ex boyfriend
I Was Only 7
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Testifying
Rape
Rape??
Raped Three Times
My cousins friend
Me too.
I just realized this today.
What am I doing wrong
My story of my date rape
Mi Esposa
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Hidden Emotions
גבר אלים וחולני
Male dancer
Raped in my own bed
I Want to Be Brave
Believe Her
Braver

Two Continents, Two Different Men!
This is my story
Being Raped
School Does Not Care
Miss
Ex Best Friend
The cycle
My boyfriend of 2 years
כמוני כמוך
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Michelle Johnston
The Man Who Never Was
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
I Am Still Standing
Living With Us
The First Time
House help and cousin
When It’s Personal
Molested and Confused
Is this normal?
The year that changed me
Erase and Rewind
Why Me Over and Over?
‘Were you drinking?’
You’re a Rapist
Why was it my fault?
Suffered and Survived
Black and Blue
Ashly’s story
Amusement Park
Mistaken Identity
הטרידו אותי
Unethical or illegal?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Too naïve
I am not a rape victim
Freshman Year
I know when I see a rapist...
My message to all
Myself
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
It never seems like Rape to me
Friend of mines set me up
Family Party
Finding Words
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
My Relationship With Dad
His Charming Ways
Best Friends Brother
Too Trusting
In The Past
I was raped
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Stupid Coward
Sleepraping
25 years of fear
LOST
לא יוצאים מזה…
Noah
Started With My Father
End of Innocence
Too naïve
I Was Only 7
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Date rape
My Story, My Nightmare
So Alone
Army
Sexual Harrassment
Just Playing
In Denial of My Rape
Only I get to make choices for...
I was kidnapped, beaten, knocked out and...
Spoke out and was blamed
The Boys Club Continues
Survivor
Unicorns
Six Years of Denial
Twice
Ms.
Every Way Imaginable
My Interview
Get a bf or I’ll kick you...
Salted Wound
Rape Under Intoxication
I met evil at a young age
Warning
Sharing again
A Loss to Mankind
I Thought I Was Safe
Almost Does Not Count
A respectable collegue
Still Carry the Anger
Childhood
Rape
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Serial Rapist
No Support
Childhood Abuse
Him or Me
My Ongoing Journey
I didn’t enderstand what was happening
Ignored
My stepfather
היי
I Don’t Know, Okay?
Date Rape
Blamed Myself
I Am Brave
