#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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Ex-Boyfriend
My Rape Story
Innocent Faith
A Child
Thank you for speaking out…
Raped by stranger x2
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Lesbian After Assaults
Becoming a Warrior
I Dated My Rapists
היי לינור
I Thought They Cared About Me
Third time’s the charm
Rape
Summer 2019
Domestic Rape is Real
I guess it was rape
Denial
Male dancer
יש חיים אחרי אונס
He bought me chips and sent me...
I am a Rape Survivor
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
I Don’t Know My Story
7th Grade Assault
Being Done
Mi Esposa
Secretly Molested
Friend of mines set me up
Erase and Rewind
A Voice to be Heard
Broken Car Broke Me
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Secret overload
It Started With Rape
I need some advice
Still Think It Was My Fault
When I Was 7
Snowball Effect
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Roommates
Life and Death
Mi Esposa
Let Down
A Co-Worker
Did I ask for this?
Invictus
In Korea
What sent me over the edge
The First Time
The Loss of My Childhood
Rape
Being weak or stupid
Lying Child Molester
My Daughter
My teacher and my step-brother
Stupid Coward
He Was a Family Friend
Grandpa
Was It Rape
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
LOST
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
I Thought I Knew Hi
Never Again
Piece
Ex-Boyfriend
Was I really raped?
Forced, De-flowered
I thought he was a friend
Playing Games
My Brother, My Rapist
Rape survivor
Sexually abused by my father
Unethical or illegal?
My story and this amazing documentary film
People You Do Not Know
I was raped and didn’t know
Amusement Park
I Am Victorious!
Unwanted Flashbacks
Another kid raped me
Spoke out and was blamed
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Hospitalized
14 year old raped at school
No Justice
My Own Brother
Childhood/teenage sexually abuse
“I should do this more often”
I was raped
What happened to me doesn’t have to...
Rape & Sexual Assault
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Life Spiraled
Tinder Rape
I Was Only 7
Abuse Continued
I know when I see a rapist...
So drunk I can’t remember
En Enero de 2010
my story
You Must Acknowledge
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Impacted Forever
Quarterly Review
My Best Friend
Multiple Date Rapes/Sexual Abuse During Teen Years...
I got away
Raped by Abusive Husband
Friend of mines set me up
A Lifetime of pain
An older cousin
Lost Soul
4 Years Ago
Touching
Many Years Ago
That Night
Molested
Molested
Tel Aviv
Finally Sharing
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Stranger
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
The children are the priority here
Memories
my toxic relationship
Rape Is Everywhere
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
Still Can’t Believe It
4th of July
Grandpa
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Fight
What Was I Thinking?
Letter to my offender part 2
Drugged
My Husband Set Me Up!
I Am a Survivor
Speak Up
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
My principal mom raped me
Only I get to make choices for...
Trying To Help
My message to all
16 Years Later
גבר אלים וחולני
Assault
Rape
My Daughter
The Life I Live
I dont know what to call it
Say Something
Undertones Throughout My Life
Getting Away
I should have STOPPED
My Story
In the Hospital
i was a child.
I Don’t Know, Okay?
Let’s Fight Back With Love
I Never Give Up

Rude awakening
Mi Historia
lucky
I loved him
Scared Like Crazy
Life Changer
So Now What?
This Is Me, my fight song
My story growing up with a secret
The First Time
I blamed myself… Twice
Ashamed
Protect and Served and Raped
My abuse story victim to survivor
This is MY story
His Charming Ways
Stress
Motel 6 Nightmare
Raped at the Air Force Academy
כמוני כמוך
Freshman on Campus
Raped as a Boy
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Brave Daughter
Touched
I was 5.
I was sexually assaulted
Why does this keep happening to me?
I wanted to get high
Cousin Rape
Too drunk to remember
Not Another Moment
I Shouldn’t Have To…
My Daughter’s Rape
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
היי
Drunken rape
Molestation
Too much trauma
This Is My Story
My Own Brother
Help
The First Man In My Life
My survival story
College Campus Rape
I Blamed Myself
Sex doll
Sexual Abuse
I thought you loved me
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Believe Her
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Story
Males are Victims Too
Molested at 3
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Black Out
He Cashed in His Trust
Blamed Myself
This Is Me, my fight song
My First Memories….
Ashamed
Tulane Law
Military Sexual Trauma
Gang molestation
I Thought It Was Normal
Seis Años
לפני 14 שנים
The Statistics that Changed Me
Miss
Say Something
Rape Is Everywhere
My Mom
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Set Up
Holding My Feelings In
Employer rape
Freshman Year
It Happens All Too Often
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Holiday Rape
I Trusted Him…
Over 40 years Ago
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
My neighbor and his friends
Never Even Knew
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Woke up violated and confused.
Life Is Rough
Father, Brother, Brother
PART 3: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Mine Was Different
Stairwell
Finally Arrested
Too naïve
Thank You
Army
Ms
The Setup
Young and Unaware
A Journal of a Wayward Child
All Just Too Much
Raped in the Air Force
Trapped
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
His Masterpiece
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
A respectable collegue
Too temping, I guess
The Man Who Never Was
De Los 6 a Los 12
Alcohol
I Was a Fool for Him
Multiple Times
Keep it to myself
ONLY the Beginning
Growth
Was it rape?
Still Lost :/
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Under Age drinking
My Story
J’avais 13 ans
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Molested
Ready to Share
Confused
Just Words
3 years later i still wonder if...
עדיין מציק
Male dancer
הטרידו אותי
Fraternity Men
הסיפור שלי…
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Sexual Coercion
Ms.
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Was Raped?
Speaking Up for Women
School Rape
Together, We Are Brave
