#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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Just Words
My Relationship With Dad
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Fiance Father of my Child
My teacher and my step-brother
At Least He Didn’t Rape You
Unlucky
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
אוףףףף
Intruded
Motel 6 Nightmare
Trapped with memories
Your never stop hurting me till your...
Erase and Rewind
Moving on Alone from Rape
Confused by Rape
In Front of My Girls
Raped by Him
An Embarrassing Situation
Molest
I was raped
Manhandling to Rape
Sexually abused by my father
I Am Victorious!
Holding My Feelings In
Multiple Times
I Trusted Him
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
PART 3: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Parasite
He Loved Me
Life Is Rough
Dating For 10 Months When…
My rape story
Date Rape
Kibbutz
A Night I Can’t Remember
Was it Really Rape
Stupid Coward
J’avais 13 ans
My Life in Foster Care
Unethical or illegal?
Raped By 6 Policemen
sexual assault
Raped By a Friend
My Story
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
A familiar fight
Speaking It
Sexually assulted by coworker
Its Got To STOP!
06.05.2006
Keeping Faith
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Still Think It Was My Fault
היי
My Multiple-Offender Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
Ritual Sexual Abuse
היי לינור
Broke me
My First Time
Male dancer
Mrs.
Myself
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
Rock It!

Date Rape
Feeling Alone
הטרידו אותי
Sex doll
Surviving, Kinda
Digging my own grave
גבר אלים וחולני
A learning experience
Dream / Recall
But I Was Drunk
Ashly’s story
Just Wanted to Escape
Abused By A Therapist
I Trusted Him
Was It Rape
I Said No
Empty
Cavemen
A story never told
First Frat Party
Child Rape
First “Real” Boyfriend
My Fight
Mi Esposa
College Student
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Two Men Lifetimes Apart
High School Rape
Mi Historia
3 balls, striking
My Story
SA in school
He Was A Police Officer
Metoo
Speak Up
Raped By a Family Member
It is not my fault
It Happens All Too Often
Am I Wrong?
Literal Hell
My Story
Six months in the making..
MesS Into A mesSage
Prom Night
When I Was 7
Rape
Sexually Assaulted as a Child
Molestation
Brother & Sister
Nobody Knew
With Love
But what really happened?
Seis Años
When I Was 8 Years Old
My First Two Times
Unsure
High School Orientation
My story growing up with a secret
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Rape
My family friend
Now I Understand My Husband
Raped in the Air Force
Drugged raped and failed by justice
I thought he was my friend
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Family Member
Life Is Rough
Teenage Victim
Nashville Sweetheart
Date Rape
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Sexual Assault
Trying to Survive
Felt safe in my friend group
I know when I see a rapist...
My Story.
It was not my fault
Why you should talk to your daughters...
So drunk I can’t remember
Army
Boyfriend Hell
De Los 6 a Los 12
3 Times is Not Charming
An Intruder
Raped by my Stepfather
My Story of a Gang Rape
Metoo
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
A person to trust became my worst...
Date Raped
Sleepraping
Metoo
Say Something
Weak
I Said No
My Rape Stories
Every Way Imaginable
4 Years Ago
Rape & Sexual Assault
His Masterpiece
Raped Husband
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Cafeteria Food
Not normal
Rape?
Finding My Voice
Attempted rape
I met evil at a young age
The First Time
I was born for this
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I don’t know if it counts
J’avais 13 ans
Hidden Emotions
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
You Must Acknowledge
I Was a Virgin
James
Start of grooming at 15
My mom is in constant contact with...
Incest
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Was I Abused?
New Years Eve
Too naïve
I survived
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Impact of Screening
I Dated My Rapists
I Was Only 7
Raped by my boyfriend
Stolen Innocence
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
He’s Your Husband, It’s Not Rape
Weathering The Storm
3 Strikes and No More
*rape
So Now What?
April 8th, 2016
Blamed Myself
Roommates
Time To Tell
En Enero de 2010
How Many Times?
ללינור היקרה
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Freshman Year
He Was a Cop
I Thought He Loved Me
Sexual abuse
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Despedida
75 Percent Humidity
Isn’t Any Proof
Is It Really Rape?
After I Was Raped
Alone
Domestic rape
Summer 2019
You were supposed to be my friend
Trauma
Politeness Serves No One
My Sexual Assault Story
Help…
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
My Husband Set Me Up!
Embrace It All
intruder
I Remember Being Happy
Why Me?
Rude awakening
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
Three weeks, every day..
Ms.
My step dad raped me
Speak Up
לפני 14 שנים
עדיין מציק
Workplace Sexual Harassment
There Is Hope For Us
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
לא יוצאים מזה…
My husband raped me when I took...
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
Broken
The pain that was never mine to...
Sharing again
Spring Break
Tormented
Walk Me?
Rape
Supporting Sisters
Child Rape
Not Alone
I want to Call it what it...
My story
I Don’t Even Know His Name
לפני 14 שנים
Dad Raped Me
My Ongoing Journey
Enough Is Enough
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Domestic Abuse
Close of a Brother
Once Again
Not Really Family
I Am Beautiful Now
Sexual Assault
Stupid Coward
Confused
Growth
A childhood to recover from
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
A respectable collegue
The Statistics that Changed Me
Sleep Over
f*ck you
Thick Mud
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
People You Do Not Know
Over 40 years Ago
Forever Silent
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
Assault?
Blamed Myself
I Trusted Him
Repressed Memories x3 Abusers
The Cliche
Living With Us
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Spoke out and was blamed
Need advice
My “Step-father”
Don’t Give Up
