#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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Attempt to Rape
Why Me?
Rape
Was It My Fault?
Never Be the Same Again
I was molested and raped at 6
My boss
Thank you
Erase and Rewind
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
Raped
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Myself
What Is Happening
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
Was it rape?
I dont know what to call it
Raped Husband
In NYC
My Snowball Effect
Second Date
Finding Me
How Many Times?
Sexual Abuse
Repressed Memories
I did Not need to know this
Losing Myself
Friend?
Broken Trust
Date Raped
Roommates
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
The Man in Uniform
Drugged
Do you remember your first time?
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
My story growing up with a secret
My Last Party
Stress
Even Lawyers Get Raped
With Love
Just Words
Date Rape
A Different MeToo
Ms
It Was Too Late
Thank You
Sexual Abuse
Uncomfortable
Mistaken Identity
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Raped at the Air Force Academy
I Was Only 7
I Woke Up In The Tub
Scars
De Los 6 a Los 12
Every Way Imaginable
raped by my own brother
What Was I Thinking?
Time Heals
I Thought They Cared About Me
My best friends dad
Grandpa Molested me
The First Time
I Don’t Trust My Father
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
The Summer of 2013
My Mom
My principal mom raped me
Family Secrets
Unwanted Flashbacks
Ketamine Rape
Spousal Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Him or Me
After I Was Raped
A Child
Raped in my Hostel
Lost My Virginity In Rape By Jehovah’s...
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Multiple Rapes
HS Reunion
2 Years Ago
Thank you
Unethical or illegal?
Multiple Times
Because of You
It is not my fault
Atlantis
my story
My first boyfriend in the US
I Didn’t Know
I was born for this
Unlucky
This will be painful
לפני 14 שנים
Mrs
My best friends dad
Rape Is Everywhere
They asked if I was lying
כמוני כמוך
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Childhood End
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
Mi Esposa
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
I regret not telling
16 times
Why me?
Those 8 hours
Rape
I was 17 and survived
Miss
Naive and Vulnerable
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Don’t Give Up
