#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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Survivor, Still Struggling
Mi Historia
Dad Touching Me
“My Rape” at University
One Bruise Too Many
Rape and Anxiety
But I Was Drunk
So Many Years to Remember
When will it be enough?
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Is Healing Possible?
Light In The Dark
My Step Brother
Secrets
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Pain
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
37 Years Ago
Raped 14 times in 1 year
From Heaven to Hell
4th grade
Hard to Trust
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
Drug raped
So drunk I can’t remember
De Los 6 a Los 12
Mistaken Identity
My Story, My Nightmare
Even Lawyers Get Raped
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Rape
Thank you
My Last Party
Unicorns
The Day I Was Raped
Ex-boyfriend rape
לפני 14 שנים
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
My Brave Daughter
When All Hope is Gone
Invictus
My story growing up with a secret
April 2015
i was a child.
Summer 2019
Teenage Victim
My Story
Rape
Molestation
Thought He Was A Friend
Frozen in fear
J’avais 13 ans
הסיפור שלי…
My story!
First College Party
It just happened
Someday Soon
Just Another Night
Date Raped When I Was 15
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Fiance Father of my Child
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Accepted My Past
Drunken Rape
Never Forgotten
My Own Sister
My Story
My Story.
3 Times is Not Charming
Nashville Sweetheart
Someday Soon
I should have STOPPED
The Unforgetable Party
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Gang Rape
Brother & Sister
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
They Laughed
Myself
The Stepmonster
This Is My Story
We Stand Together
I wish I would have been smarter
First “Real” Boyfriend
They asked if I was lying
Football Player
No Power
My story and this amazing documentary film
Domestic Rape is Real
Unforgiven
I Remember Being Happy
I Was Only 7
This is MY story
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Dating For 10 Months When…
The Hole in My Heart
To my best friend who raped me
My Story – Not a fun one.
Was It Really Rape?
I was too young to know what...
Can Anyone Help?
Less than a Minute of my Life
Employer rape
…
First Date
The Night That Changed My World
Erase and Rewind
My boyfriend of 2 years
I still don’t know
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
School Bathroom
Army
Liar, Liar
Rape
Politeness Serves No One
גבר אלים וחולני
Spoke out and was blamed
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Ashamed
Multiple Rapes
Help
I Barely Knew Them
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
my story
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Male dancer
Love of My Life?
It Started with my Brother
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
“Me too” On Facebook
Impacted Forever
No One Believes Me
The First Time
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
The Touches I Felt
En Enero de 2010
Unethical or illegal?
My year abroad
Sexual Assault
I Slept Next to Him
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
Night Out
It was someone I knew and I...
Fraternity Men
אוףףףף
He Was a Cop
I Trusted Him
Too much trauma
University Bar
Despedida
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Rape
Just a Child
My story
He had my pants down
Constant fear
Raped by boyfriend
My Story.
Politeness Serves No One
A story of a not so perfect...
November ’08
Childhood Abuse
I’ve lost my trust with men
My Journey as a Rape survivor from...
It was never…..That
I Said No
Drugged raped and failed by justice
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
My Snowball Effect
Dream / Recall
It is not my fault
Just Words
7 years and it still controls me
My Fight
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Date Rape
Them
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Today, I Let It All Go
Overcome It
Too many to stop it
Too naïve
Rape of My Partner
Grandpa
That wasn’t too bad now was it?
Still Haven’t Healed
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
I was raped
Marital Rape
Out of Control
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Broken Girl
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Patient People
I know when I see a rapist...
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Healing in progress
The Party I Will Never Forget
A Year After
My Mother’s Albatross
Rape By My Husband
My story growing up with a secret
Raped in the Air Force
Was it rape? Or my fault?
I blamed myself… Twice
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
A Night To Remember
My Husband Set Me Up!
Justice
Molestation
3 incidents
Seis Años
Sex doll
My Army Fiance
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
I can say it now
Help
Just wanted to be loved
Raped by my cousin
Ms.
Two Friends and Two Boys
A Silent Fighter
Drugged After Junior Prom
Say Something
Rape
Freshman Year
The Statistics that Changed Me
Molested
He was my best friend
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
Roommates
So Long Ago
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
Trauma
My Childhood
It started with you.
Letter to…
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
הטרידו אותי
The Same Effect
13 and Raped
Assault
My Modeling Experience
My Coach My Rapist
Thank you for being LOUD!
Black and Blue
All Just Too Much
Why Me Over and Over?
My Best Friend
I now know
Feeling Alone
My Daughter’s Rape
College Professor
The abuser
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
So Now What?
My Year in Hell
Who is Responsible?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I said YES
What even happened
Camilla’s Story
Friends Uncle
Mi Esposa
Robbery
My Younger Sister
A Long Healing Process
intruder
Blamed Myself
עדיין מציק
3x
My Story
1 in 5
Proud
Was It Really Rape?
Scammer
Sexual Harrassment
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I’m Alive
Was It My Fault?
Around 9 PM
He Was A Police Officer
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Lotus
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Molested By My Cousin
Catfished
My Story
The Loss of My Childhood
It Was My Fault
Still Unable to Tell People
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
4 Years Ago
It was not my fault
My First Time
Rape
היי
Confused by Rape
Still searching for any type of answer....
Hateful
Why Me?
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
A respectable collegue
At 17yr old was raped by my...
It’s my fault
You had no rights
Healing and releasing painful memories
היי לינור
@ years of rape and being drugged
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