#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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I Still Blame Myself
Second Night of College
Just Words
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Male dancer
I thought it was my fault
Suffered and Survived
Sexual harrassment
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Childhood Story
My Story
Sex doll
Metoo
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Sexual Abuse
Seis Años
Boyfriend Hell
The Elevator Man
The Life I Live
Rape
I Slept Next to Him
3x
So drunk I can’t remember
עדיין מציק
Don’t Want to Anymore
Piece
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
A Different MeToo
En Enero de 2010
Raped by jail guard
Darkness With Friends
Drugged and Gang Raped
Myself
Is this normal?
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Everyone loves him
All Just Too Much
That One Night
I wish she wouldve helped me
Life Spiraled
Abused By My Father
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Alcohol
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Neglected
My Friend’s House
Violated
Spousal Rape
An Amazing Woman
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Erase and Rewind
Justice Didn’t Help Me
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
One in Four
Four years later
Need help
Welcome To Adulthood
Kibbutz
It was just a friend date
I let it happen twice
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
The Beach is Not Safe
My survival story
Sexual abuse
A respectable collegue
Sally
My “Uncle” Raped Me
My Snowball Effect
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Sexual Abuse
Forgotten Memories Submerge
Friend of mines set me up
My 18th Birthday
They thought it was fun
I Came Home
היי לינור
We met at the bar
Child abuse
Such Shame
Salted Wound
3 Days After Arriving at College
In-Between Times
Shout Out
16 times
גבר אלים וחולני
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
It was in a society that told...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My Boyfriend Raped Me
sexual assault
The First Time
Left in shambles
Sexual Assault at 11
When will it be enough?
I’m not broken but worse. I’m dead.
Ride from the Concert
Rape or Not?
Patient People
אוףףףף
4th grade
The Stepmonster
The Friend
Why Me?
Drugged and Gang Raped
Sex doll
i was 5 , 12 , 13...
In Front of My Girls
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Not A Trustworthy Man
He was jealous of my new friend
Rape by Boyfriend
3 Times is Not Charming
Moving on Alone from Rape
Cafeteria Food
Roofied
Victim No More
3 years on
23 year old virgin
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
Party Time
why me
Raped in Foster care
Stop
En Enero de 2010
Summer 2019
An Unknown Face & Hands
Multiple Times
was i raped?
Broken Girl
Can I Call It Rape?
Speaking Out
Spoke out and was blamed
Victim of sexual assault
I Told Him No
13 and 16
April 19th
לא יוצאים מזה…
Was it rape?
Holding My Feelings In
Short Story
April 8th, 2016
Help!! What Can I Do?
Messed Up
Mi Historia
Marital Rape
My Brave Daughter
My Beloved Man
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Unforgiven
Over 40 years Ago
My First Two Times
Not Really Family
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
my story
Together, We Are Brave

Holding It In
Hurt and Anger
Warrior
We All Have a Voice
Not Remembering
Army
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Ride from the Concert
University Bar
A familiar fight
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
It’s Your Fault
Mi Esposa
A story of a not so perfect...
More Witness than I Care to Live...
My Story
Embrace It All
Years in Denial
I Was Raped
Trapped
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Said No
My teacher and my step-brother
היי
A Story
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Unethical or illegal?
If your boyfriend does it is is...
Prom Night
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Justice Didn’t Help Me
I know when I see a rapist...
J’avais 13 ans
Betrayed
His Charming Ways
I didn’t break up with him back...
Family Ties
I am J. D. R., and I...
Girls Without Parents
Victim Shaming
Raped by Him
Enough Is Enough
The Statistics that Changed Me
It was my ex boyfriend
Why Me Over and Over?
Locked Up
Hard to Trust
He used me. He left me.
Ended in Rape
Molested at 3
Daycare friend
Don’t Know
A Lifetime
Raped in the Air Force
Too naïve
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Thank you for being LOUD!
Being Raped
כמוני כמוך
My First Two Times
Former partner would berate me
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
A Literal Fight
Mistaken Identity
Someone I Dated
17
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Bad Decision
A Loss to Mankind
My story
Too Far
He took everything
Why Me Over and Over?
He gave me to his friend
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
After Wedding
Multiple Assaults
Raped By My Brother
April 2015
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Miss
A person to trust became my worst...
God Saved Me
I Thought I Was Safe
The Night That Changed My World
I don’t Know, but I Know
Continue to Survive
ללינור היקרה
I Am a Survivor
Over 40 years Ago
Rape
Assault at 12 Years by Teacher
My story growing up with a secret
Man Raped By Man
Stronger Than You Think
He Was Never My Friend
We met at the bar
The Wolf and His Rabbit
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
I Never Thought He’d Do Something Like...
I am still running
I Said No
Say Something
I Hate You
My Step Brother
Thank You
The Man Who Never Was
Letter to…
Was it rape?
Strength to Speak Out
I Am Brave
