#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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Not Over It
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
I didn’t wish it to happen
Ms.
הטרידו אותי
10 Minutos Can Change Your Life
A Stong Woman
היי
More Than Once
Ending Misogyny
I’m Not Easy
Metoo
Family Member
Kept From Us
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
The Man Who Never Was
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Bartender Lies
Fear
Camilla’s Story
An Embarrassing Situation
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
3 Generations
He Was A Police Officer
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Its Got To STOP!
In The Concrete Jungle
Shame
Survivor #metoo
I Am Not Brave
Rape Is Everywhere
Lotus
Death before birth
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Be Aware
Summer 2019
The Statistics that Changed Me
Red Flags
My best friends dad
Love of My Life?
University Bar
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
75 Percent Humidity
Hard Time
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
When i was stripped of my innocence
I’m Not Sure
Two Times
Despedida
Assaulted By Family Member
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Just Words
Left Me In Pieces
Breaking Trust
People You Do Not Know
In the Hospital
Mi Esposa
Michelle Johnston
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Happy Hell-oween
Date gone wrong
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Prey
16 times
Erase and Rewind
4 Years Ago
A night gone wrong
My Mom
Child Rape
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
My First Boyfriend
My Scars Do Not Define Me
Rock It!

Sexual Assault
Seis Años
Drunken Rape
I Just Started High School
#IStandWithHer
No Longer Keeping the Peace
I am a Survivor.
He Was a Family Friend
Worst Day Ever
To the man who stole my independence
My Best Friend
Spoke out and was blamed
House help and cousin
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
En Enero de 2010
Broken vase
Multiple Times
Sexual Assault
Home from School
Tree House
Sexual Assault
Friend of my Husband
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
Lost Soul
I didn’t break up with him back...
Rape
I am still running
I Am Beautiful Now
A Letter to My Rapist
HS Reunion
Because of You
I Can Barely Remember
Pregnancy
Night Out
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
I think I was raped
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Trapped In a Fantasy World
New Years
Raped in the Air Force
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
עדיין מציק
16 and 45
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Not just me
Army
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Nightmare
Mrs.
Childhood Horror
These Men are More Protected Than We...
my story
Forgiving myself
Mistaken Identity
לפני 14 שנים
I Was Only 7
My Brothers Two Best Friends
Raped by my ex-boyfriend
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
She wanted me to prove I loved...
Domestic Rape
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Multiple Times
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
How Many Times?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Despedida
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
i was a child.
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Sex doll
I Didn’t See It In Time
Just Violated
Sex doll
What Can I Do
Every Way Imaginable
Drunken Rape
A Child
Lied to left brain damged
Rape
Supposed To Be There
The Statistics that Changed Me
Losing my virginity
De Los 6 a Los 12
Breaking the Trust
I Am Still Standing
My so called “best friend”
ללינור היקרה
I’m Not Easy
3 Different Times
sexual assault
Rape
Sexual Coercion
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Flashbacks
The Story Of Two Rapes
silent rape
sexually abused
Raped in College
I Was Manipulated
A young mother
Never Even Knew
Too naïve
גבר אלים וחולני
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
My Rapists I Grew Up With
A respectable collegue
Roofied
Quarterly Review
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
היי לינור
I Was 3 Years Old
Just Another Night
I Feel So Betrayed
The reason for my tattoo
My Biggest Secret
Camilla’s Story
My experience as an intern in highschool
Raped and Molested
Violated
Myself
Drugged
J’avais 13 ans
I know when I see a rapist...
No
Rape and the Aftermath
Mi Historia
Pretty Girls
הסיפור שלי…
Rape & Sexual Assault
At Least He Didn’t Rape You
Together, We Are Brave
