#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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Shelter My Soul
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Roommates
I Was Manipulated
ללינור היקרה
Despedida
I Am Beautiful Now
Surviving sexual assault trauma
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Raped and Never Forgotten
I Remember Being Happy
Gang Rape
Was Raped
היי
High School Rape
7 years and it still controls me
A story never told
Rape
A family assault
By my friend
my story
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Rape Is Everywhere
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Michelle Johnston
לפני 14 שנים
Molested By My Cousin
Wanted Love But Got Rape
75 Percent Humidity
Lost Soul
Just Words
Family and Friends
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Confused for Too Long
What’s Done Is Done
My abuse story victim to survivor
Was I Raped?
I Trusted Him
She was never the same…
He’s Dead
Love and Forced abortion
Raped and Molested
I was carrying his daughter.
His Charming Ways
Happy Survivor
Not normal
Don’t Want to Anymore
An Abnormal Reaction
Aftermath
Speaking Up for Women
My best friend
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Say Something
I Can’t Remember
עדיין מציק
After 14 Years
6 to 20
#IStandWithHer
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
April 19th
Rape Survivor
These Men are More Protected Than We...
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Rape
Happy Birthday
Two Strangers in a Park
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Raped at 17
Knowledge is Power
I did Not need to know this
incest
Lying Child Molester
So Many Years to Remember
f*ck you
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I was 13, he was my first...
Not normal
I Am a Survivor
Halting The Pain
Mi Historia
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
He Was My Best Friend
Did He Rape Me?
Sexual Abuse and Rape
I Am Finally FREE
De Los 6 a Los 12
Sex doll
Unethical or illegal?
I’m so sorry
Need advice
I’m Alive
Trapped
My Daughter
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
It Happened More Than Once
Running With Bare Feet
Victim Shaming
My Ex-husband
Ms.
Date rape
4 Years Ago
הטרידו אותי
Twice a pattern?
So drunk I can’t remember
Tattoo Artist
אוףףףף
Raped By a Friend
So Alone
The reason for my tattoo
A respectable collegue
How Many Times?
Sexual Coercion
HS Reunion
A Year After
One in Four
Rape survivor
Former partner would berate me
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
incest
My Brother
Summer 2019
Just Playing
My Mother Was Raped
Set Up
Hateful
My Boss Raped Me
Another kid raped me
Deja Vu
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Someday Soon
Trapped In a Fantasy World
Survivor of COCSA
First Time
Impacted Forever
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Date rape
Attempted Rape
Nine Years Worth of Abuse
הסיפור שלי…
Raped because of who I loved
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Story.
A Private College; A Private Rape
Party Accident
Motel 6 Nightmare
7 years and it still controls me
I Was Dating Him
Sexual Abuse
Forced, De-flowered
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
Rape & Sexual Assault
“raped” by my long time bf
When I Was 7
Weathering The Storm
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Breakin Burgler
Trust
My Younger Sister
A Story
Rape
7th Grade Assault
Fell In Love With a Monster
Myself
Sexually Assaulted
Why I’m sorry
He raped me. I hugged him goodbye...
Every Time I Said “No”
Just a Child
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
It Was Too Late
Step Dad
He Was My Hero
Too much trauma
Twice is too much
My Story
Breaking the Silence

Raped at the Air Force Academy
Date Rape
Remember as a victim you have done...
The Summer of 2013
Too naïve
It will get better
After Wedding
Broken Hearted
Self Worth
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Raped at age 9 & 15
School Bathroom
Spoke out and was blamed
My Story
Friends?
sexual assault & abuse
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Young and Unaware
All Just Too Much
I Recorded my Rapist
It was his word against mine
Bringing the Stories to Light
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Sexual Abuse of Minors
Marital Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Freshman Year
Dream / Recall
Violated
Embrace It All
This Is My Story
I dont know what to call it
First Frat Party
Molestation
The Day Everything Changed
#MeToo I am 1
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
No Stranger
Why you should talk to your daughters...
I Was Only 7
Not a safe place after all
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
It was never…..That
I Was Told It Was Normal
The Statistics that Changed Me
En Enero de 2010
It’s just not fair
My best friend raped me
Mi Esposa
Attempted rape
Metoo
I thought he was a friend
You are with me!!
The Night That Changed My Life
My story growing up with a secret
I don’t know if it’s rape
Dumbed Down
Sexual Abuse
A friend who is a rapist
Life of Trauma
My Rape Stories
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I Too Was Raped
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Don’t Want to Admit It
Black Out
Raped Three Times
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Scared to close my eyes
The Night That Changed My Life
They thought it was fun
Raped in my own bed
East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer – Joseph...
Male dancer
Scared Like Crazy
Emotional Abuse
Be Strong
Miss
Childhood Abuse
Seis Años
Blamed Myself
Incest
My abuse story victim to survivor
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Ignored For a Lifetime
I know when I see a rapist...
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Lost My Virginity In Rape By Jehovah’s...
Still Going
Raped in the Air Force
Raped By Family
I Was Raped?
Broken
Blackout
I tried to bury it for seven...
What Can I Do
23 with a secret
Resiliency
I Too Was Raped
Rape
Its Got To STOP!
Repressed Memory
Speaking out for the first time in...
My Story
Breakin Burgler
My message to all
Army
Growth
Raped by my ex-boyfriend
Generations
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Together, We Are Brave
