#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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Young and Unaware
Cafeteria Food
He was my best friend
I Thought He Loved Me
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
My Daughter and I Both
My Childhood
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
A person to trust became my worst...
I Too Was Raped
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
Childhood Friend Date Rape
I Was Told It Was Normal
He Was A Police Officer
Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
I was too young to know what...
Afraid of Being Judged
Myself
The Night That Changed My Life
Narcissistic Ex
I Can’t Remember
Obsessed Abusive Ex
My Husband Set Me Up!
I Trusted Him
Broken down car
Multiple Times
A respectable collegue
Getting Better
Lasting memories
Never Going To Happen To Me
I didn’t fight back.
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
We go to the same church
My Modeling Experience
I was 13, he was my first...
Stupid Coward
Lesbian After Assaults
Drunken Rape
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Too naïve
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
הטרידו אותי
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
A story of a not so perfect...
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Two Continents, Two Different Men!
In Denial of My Rape
Summer 2019
Sexual Assault
Remembering
A sociopath in disguise
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Rape
My story
Stuck
4 Years Ago
We All Have a Voice
My 21st Birthday
Child Molester
I now know
Army
Harassment at Work
To my best friend who raped me
I Didn’t See It In Time
Miss
I Thought I Was Safe
I Didn’t See It In Time
Rape
Raped in the Air Force
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
A Loss to Mankind
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
Virgin Rape
Love of My Life?
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Kept From Us
7 years and it still controls me
Your never stop hurting me till your...
Why me?
Was I Raped?
Mi Historia
Overcoming My Story of Rape
He Lied
Rape Under Intoxication
Memories
Finally Sharing
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Living With Us
“It’s not your fault.”
God Saved Me
Set Up
Intimate Partner Violence
I want my innocence back
Help…
היי
Rape
They Blamed it on the Tequila
De Los 6 a Los 12
I Was Dating Him
Rape and Not Believed
Family Member
Off My Shoulders
Growing Past Just Surviving
A letter to my rapist
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
My story growing up with a secret
Twice a pattern?
אוףףףף
Feeling Alone
Ms.
So Now What?
The Girl Who Went To College
Shelter My Soul
Twice is too much
My Secret
Why Me?
Feeling Alone
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Trapped
Undertones Throughout My Life
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Knowledge is Power
Deja Vu
Abusive Uncle
Just Words
Too naïve
I Am A Survivor
Date Raped
Raped by my cousin
MY Inspirational Story
I know when I see a rapist...
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Protect and Served and Raped
4 Years Ago
3 Times is Not Charming
Best Friends Brother
Ketamine Rape
Drugged
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Fishing Trips
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Nobody believed me
And It Continues
Silenced But Not Forever
I Thought He Was My Friend
He Was a Cop
J’avais 13 ans
Rape
Army
גבר אלים וחולני
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Together, We Are Brave
