#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. Womenโs 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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Molestation
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Victim of Abuse
1 hour 3 days
My story growing up with a secret
my toxic relationship
So Long Ago But Still With Me
Miss
De Los 6 a Los 12
A Long Healing Process
Liar, Liar
My Story
Piano Teacher
He ruined my life
My Army Fiance
My Boss Raped Me
Keeping Faith
When will it be enough?
Too naรฏve
Rape
The Guy I Trusted
ืืืจืืืื ืืื ืงืฉื ืืืื
This Is My Story
Just Wanted to Escape
ืืืจืืื ืืืชื
He Was A Police Officer
Getting Away
So drunk I can’t remember
Thank You
Just Words
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
My Daughter’s Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
How I Was Raped
Childhood of assault
My Best Friend’s Husband Raped Me
Summer 2019
I want my innocence back
Assault at 12 Years by Teacher
Third time’s the charm
Date Rape Drug
My fiancรฉ is my rapist but I...
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Drug raped
A respectable collegue
Sexual Assault
Unicorns
Ritual Sexual Abuse
It Happens All Too Often
Rape Survivor
Still Unable to Tell People
My Nightmare
Fenced In
Light In The Dark
He Was A Police Officer
Marital Rape
Chiropractor
Jโavais 13 ans
I Was Just A Baby
Remember November
Bad Morning
Marital Rape and the abuser in my...
Brock and Will
ืืื ืืื ืืจ
To my best friend who raped me
Suffered and Survived
Stranger
Rape by Boyfriend
With Love
Speaking Up for Women
Kept From Us
I should have STOPPED
Nashville Sweetheart
4 Years Ago
A Letter to My Rapist
I Barely Knew Them
ืืืืจ, ืืืืื, ืื ืฆื
I don’t know what to do
ืืกืืคืืจ ืฉืื…
Online dating
Ms
Two Friends and Two Boys
I buried the pain
Does the pain ever go away?
Black Girl
What’s Done Is Done
Child Rape
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Sharing #MeToo’s
Catching Up With Me
It wasnโt your fault
Family Secrets
I Was Only 7
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
College Student
I let it happen twice
Infatuation
Losing my virginity
I know when I see a rapist...
My secret
Make Me Proud
Living Nightmare
Life Was Ruined
Child sex abuse
Date Rape
The Night That Changed My Life
Abuse and Rape
Raped in the Air Force
Serial Rapist
ืื ืืืฆืืื ืืื…
Friend of mines set me up
I Trusted Him
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
Afraid to be Brave
It Was My Fault
It Was Too Late
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Not friends
My Brother
Just wanted to be loved
In The Concrete Jungle
Knowledge is Power
Intruded
He was supposed to be a friend
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
An Abnormal Reaction
Ms.
University Bar
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
She sent a Warning, and Paid for...
All Just Too Much
No one owns your story but you
“No” is Universal
A learning experience
Army
5 Years On
My Friend
It Was My Fault
A Year After
Naive
Mi Historia
It’s my fault
A Literal Fight
Drunken Rape
Roommates
Raped by jail guard
I thought he was a friend
#metoo
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
Supposed To Be There
ืืืจ ืืืื ืืืืื ื
Second Date
Naive College Freshman
Unlucky
My Story
Mi Esposa
Dirty Whore
I wanted to get high
“raped” by my long time bf
Just Violated
Rape
Politeness Serves No One
Drunk and taken advantage of
Virgin Rape
An Abnormal Reaction
The thief
Lying Child Molester
I Thought I Was Safe
15
I Didnโt Know I Was Raped
i was a child.
lucky
April 19th
Molested
My Uncle
Ya perdonรฉ pero nunca olvido
It Kills Me
A not so perfect family exposed to...
Fraternity gang rape
It Happened More Than Once
My story
Why: A Poem About My Rape
My abuse story victim to survivor
Read This Please
Scared
my rape
Ready to Share
Erase and Rewind
ืืื
Male dancer
I will not stay silent
Fled the Country
ืืื ืืฉื ื ืขืืืืืช ืืงืืืืื
Who Is To Blame?
Attempt to Rape
Innocence Taken
Repressed Memory
Raped in my own bed
The Statistics that Changed Me
I Didn’t Know What Happened
You are with me!!
Denial
Step Dad
Victim No More
Confused
You were supposed to be my friend
#IStandWithHer
Rape Shaming
The Boys Club Continues
I Want to Be Brave
Happy Birthday
Amusement Park
Freshman Year
Raped by Abusive Husband
Girl Raped By a Girl
My Daughter’s Rape
Why Me, Time and Time Again
Letter to my offender part 2
Not Blood Cousins
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
My Modeling Experience
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
ืืืจืืืื ืืื ืงืฉื ืืืื
I Trusted Him
Aftermath
Manipulation
She was 5 years old
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
College Professor
I was 17 and survived
What am I doing wrong
Twice
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
Someone so close to me
blackmailed
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Holiday Rape
My Evil Brother
Convincing Myself
This will be painful
Running With Bare Feet
I was raped
Help…
Its Got To STOP!
My Life History
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Confused by Rape
The same guy
Childhood Trauma
It Felt Like Rape
Living With Us
Every Way Imaginable
Moving on Alone from Rape
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Say Something
Shelter My Soul
two years ago
Party Time
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Trapped
No
Empty
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
Just Friends
First Crush
Nothing for Nothing
ืขืืืื ืืฆืืง
I regret not telling
To the man who stole my independence
Continue to Survive
Abusรฉe par un voisin de mes grands...
I Was 10
Sexual harassment
She Should Be Over It
Abused By A Therapist
Victim Shaming
Girl Raped By a Girl
Dear Coward
Date Rape
Unethical or illegal?
ืืืื ืืจ ืืืงืจื
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Victim of sexual assault
The pain that was never mine to...
Noah
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Workplace Sexual Harassment
En Enero de 2010
my story
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I Don’t Trust My Father
What Is Success?
Still Unable to Tell People
Myself
he made me loose hope in love…
Survivor
