#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.
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My Sexual Assault Story
A School Trip
Why Halloween Is So Hard For Me
Rape & Sexual Assault
Confused for Too Long
So Now What?
My Army Fiance
Raped by Brother
Raped By My Therapist
Unethical or illegal?
My Evil Brother
Harder Than Expected
Not Sure It Happened
Date rape
Seis Años
So Many Times
Still Going
#metoo
1990
Broken Trust
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Sex doll
There are a lot of assholes on...
I Am Still Standing
Fled the Country
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Set Up
I Was a Virgin
3 years on
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Bad Place…Bad…Bad…Bad
Finally Sharing
A respectable collegue
Amusement Park
A Meek Young Girl
Was I assaulted?
Just A Party
היי
It started with you.
ללינור היקרה
לפני 14 שנים
Gang Rape
Someone Close to You
Touched
Piece
My 21st Birthday
Life After Death
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
So Now What?
Chapter 62
Was I Raped?
Raped By a Friend
David and Goliath
A Letter to My Rapist
Kidnapped
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
When I Was 7
The Night That Changed My Life
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Date Rape
A Day My Life Changed Forever
So Now What?
Employer rape
Different face, but the same monster
Molested at 3
What’s Done Is Done
The Boys Club Continues
Not friends
The secret
עדיין מציק
Locked Up
Just Wanted to Escape
He Was A Police Officer
Was almost raped and no one did...
To my best friend who raped me
You were supposed to be my friend
Rape and the Aftermath
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Multiple Times
I Was Just a Little Girl
raped by my own brother
The Worst Feeling
J’avais 13 ans
Ignored
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
This Is Me, my fight song
First Time Sharing
Freshman Year
Just Violated
Multiple Rapes
Me and my Best Friend
I think my “boyfriend” raped me
LOST
Lasting memories
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
Pain
Confusion
Rape
“No” is Universal
The Woods Don’t Speak
I Was Only 7
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
He Was My Dad
Ms.
Raped in the Air Force
Date Rape
Impacted Forever
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Uncomfortable
Why Me?
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Out For A Walk
The Course of Seven Years
Fenced In
Confused and Angry
Why me?
Myself
Sex doll
Finding Me
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
My story growing up with a secret
Quiet for 2 years
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
3 incidents
Erase and Rewind
In Denial of My Rape
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Loss of Innocence
Getting Away
My Rape Story
Birthday Rape
Remember November
Raped at age 9 & 15
How Many Times?
Childhood of assault
Walk Me?
Multiple Rapes
My Best Friend
A Journal of a Wayward Child
It’s Hard But It Gets Better
Self Worth
Date rape
Almost Raped
Invictus
Ex Boyfriend
I Am Brave!
Survivor of COCSA
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Acquaintance Rape
When I Was 11…
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
It Was My Mom
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Years later… meeting my rapist again
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
הטרידו אותי
Child Rape
My year abroad
Every Way Imaginable
Virgin Rape
Raped Multiple Times
My Horrific Nightmare
He ruined my life
He Took Advantage of Me
Just Words
The Stepmonster
Sexual Abuse
Stockholm
Do you believe me?
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
My Story
Army
Just a Kid
לא יוצאים מזה…
My abuse story victim to survivor
I Thought He Loved Me
I was just 9.
The Girl Who Went To College
Ended in Rape
Convincing Myself
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Betrayed By a Loved One
Twice
הסיפור שלי…
De Los 6 a Los 12
True View
Date Rape
My Friend’s House
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Too naïve
Because of you
I’m Disgusted
Rape by Boyfriend
Scar
Scars
The Guy I Trusted
My Story
Broken Girl
Hidden Emotions
25 years of fear
Raped by a so called friend
I Recorded my Rapist
my story
Okay, Not Okay
Rape
The Setup
Football Player
Be Aware
7 Sisters
Just a Kid
1 hour 3 days
Longest Prayers of My Life
Light In The Dark
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Holding It In
So drunk I can’t remember
Why Me?
My Story
Why Me Over and Over?
4 Years Ago
כמוני כמוך
You Must Acknowledge
I Want to Live
Childhood Rape
Pastor’s Son
Raped At 16, 29, 31
Mi Esposa
Rape
Panic Attack
It Happens All Too Often
Forced, De-flowered
Despedida
Finally Arrested
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Hope after repeated rape
Spoke out and was blamed
Forgotten Memories Submerge
37 Years Ago
Mental Breakdown
I Am a Survivor
Anal Rape
Something I’ve Never Shared
my story
Breaking the Silence
