#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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Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
My best friends dad
What Happened?
Army
Love of My Life?
13 and 16
My Story
A Victim No Longer
Freshman on Campus
Dad Raped Me
Spoke out and was blamed
High School
Raped
Almost Raped
I was 13, he was my first...
I Want to Be Brave
The Story Of Two Rapes
Memories
Couch Surfing
Mistaken Identity
Does the pain ever go away?
Once? Twice? Five Times?
My Story
Incest & Date Rape
היי לינור
I Came Home
Surviving my father
I should’ve known
Believe Her
Gang Rape
Sexual Assault
Males can be victims too
Date Rape
Drug raped
Virgin Rape
Liar, Liar
Me Too!
היי
It was
My story
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
Another kid raped me
Summer 2019
My Childhood
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Erase and Rewind
כמוני כמוך
Incapacitated Still
I Am Beautiful Now
I dont know what to call it
My Story
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Raped
Online dating
Silence
75 Percent Humidity
Sexual Abuse
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
Warning
Childhood Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Sexual Abuse
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Afraid of Being Judged
Effort To Survive
Rape
Family members ex husband
My Story
I Had No Idea…
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Spousal Rape
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
We All Have a Voice
My Journey Back to Life
Ms.
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Rape
The Life I Live
A Fighter? Or The Perfect Mask?
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Only Six
Let’s Fight Back With Love
My story growing up with a secret
When I Was 16
Miss
Rape
אוףףףף
They thought it was fun
So drunk I can’t remember
The First Time
Stayed Silence
Sexual Assault
I am a Survivor
Sexual Assault
My First Two Times
My Story
My Side
Never Wanted to Believe
Circumstances Collided That Night
I still don’t know
No
Need Support
Need help
He Took My Virginity
A letter to my rapist
I was assaulted twice at the same...
Friend of mines set me up
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Victimization
Fenced In
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Too Many Times
My Mother Was Raped
לא יוצאים מזה…
my story-and where i “took it”…
The Night My Life Changed
Only I get to make choices for...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Every Way Imaginable
My best friends dad
Childhood Abuse
When I Was 8 Years Old
Family Secrets
My Brother, My Rapist
I was attacked at 19 years old
Male dancer
Mother and Son
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Knowledge is Power
Myself
Sexual Assault in my own bed
I Don’t Know My Story
Molestation
Messed Up
From a Boyfriend
In the Hospital
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Sex doll
Working Through It
He Was a Cop
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Unbelievable
J’avais 13 ans
Lightening Does Strike Twice
I’m a functioning alcoholic
Sexual Assault
Too naïve
Don’t Know
Drugged and Gang Raped
An Abnormal Reaction
Because of You
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Raped in the Air Force
גבר אלים וחולני
I Am A Survivor
Raped by jail guard
Unethical or illegal?
I don’t know who I am
My Biggest Secret
I Said No
What Happened?
Assault?
17
My story
Stupid Coward
Home from School
What Should I Do?
my story-and where i “took it”…
Childhood rape
Your truth will change someones’ life.
It Was the Second
It was never…..That
Need help
I Was Only 14
A familiar fight
Broken Girl
Coping with rape during a pandemic
Mother and Son
I Never Give Up

Camp rape
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Someone so close to me
Amusement Park
En Enero de 2010
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
I was 13
Third time’s the charm
My posting
Blamed Myself
A letter to him
Braver

The Touches I Felt
Tormented
I Barely Knew Them
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
My message to all
Hidden Emotions
“No” is Universal
It Was Too Late
I don’t know what happened
I Recorded my Rapist
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Shattered Childhood
Happy Survivor
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Childhood nightmares
Never a Victim; Only Myself
This Is Me, my fight song
My Stepdad Molested Me
17
Learning to Live With My Rape
Why does this keep happening to me?
A Ruined Life
The Night That Changed My World
Raped by stranger x2
Raped At 15
Date Rape
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Surpris à la Maison
He doesn’t even know he raped me
When All Hope is Gone
A respectable collegue
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
my story
Middle School
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Too naïve
My Abusers
Molested
Sexual Assault
Bad Decisions
Date Rape Drug
Was it rape? Or my fault?
My husband was molested as a child
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
My abuse story victim to survivor
My Ex-husband
Growth
My boyfriend of 2 years
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Rape?
Black and Blue
The Girl Who Went To College
Just Words
Travel
Was it rape?
I was carrying his daughter.
Boy scout of america
Mi Historia
Still Going
יש חיים אחרי אונס
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I’m Only Stronger
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Too Close for Comfort
Drunk and taken advantage of
In Denial of My Rape
Nobody Knows
It Was the Second
Scar
Mi Esposa
My Story
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Party Accident
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Bus Ride
I trusted him
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I Choose Hope


