#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.
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my story
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
3rd Grade Boys
Dad Touching Me
Cavemen
He Was My Friend
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
When Father’s Day is Painful
I still feel like it’s my fault
The First Time
My biggest mistake
Life Was Ruined
Is It Really Rape?
Erase and Rewind
Childhood Rape
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Date rape
My story growing up with a secret
הטרידו אותי
I didn’t know
עדיין מציק
Summer 2019
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Sexual Coercion
#MeToo 5 years later…
Seis Años
My Friend’s House
Rape by Boyfriend
A respectable collegue
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
“raped” by my long time bf
Alcohol
Spoke out and was blamed
A Different MeToo
Nobody Knew
Constant fear
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Still Think It Was My Fault
Married My Rapist
I Recorded my Rapist
Confused and Angry
Family Ties
Struggling to Survive
More Than Once
My Friend
Breaking the Silence

Warning
Still Unable to Tell People
Parental Incest Is Rape
I can’t remember if I said yes...
לפני 14 שנים
7th Grade Assault
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Unspoken
I was a victim of serious child...
Confronting My Step-Father
In Five Years
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Bad Programming
Severe childhood trauma, due to drunken, irresponsible,...
Repressed Memory
One Night Only
I Was Only 7
Was led by the quarterback
3 Different Times
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Memories Are Back
I regret not telling
Silence
I Hate You
Never Got His Name
How can we make it stop?
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
From Heaven to Hell
J’avais 13 ans
Weak
He used me. He left me.
Raped and Molested
Kibbutz
I Slept Next to Him
16 and 45
ללינור היקרה
Myself
I Never Thought
Sex doll
Why
The Boys Club Continues
Young and ruined
Ms.
He over stepped the mark
Male dancer
Marital Rape
I didn’t even know what was happening
The pain that was never mine to...
I just realized this today.
Healing
Drugged
First Frat Party
My First Boyfriend
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
The Statistics that Changed Me
My Relationship With Dad
The Pastor of My Church
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
My Rape Stories
Broken Trust
University Bar
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Nine Years Worth of Abuse
The Boys Club Continues
I know when I see a rapist...
My Fight
I thought he was a friend
A Beautiful Trap
Mrs
Politeness Serves No One
It was just a friend date
Fenced In
Empty
Abuse and Rape
Stuck
High School Rape
I wish she wouldve helped me
A Lifetime
Made in America
3 Different Times
2 Years Ago
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
Rape
Ended in Rape
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
גבר אלים וחולני
My Story
Too Close
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
Dream / Recall
Despedida
My step dad raped me
Kibbutz
Broken vase
Be Careful Who U Trust
My Two Days of Hell
I Want to Live
Broken Girl
I’m Only Stronger
I Was Only 7
Brother & Sister
Still Unable to Tell People
Still Can’t Believe It
Taken advantage of
Moving On
Frozen in fear
En Enero de 2010
Mi Esposa
Rape
Was It Really Rape?
Started With My Father
The Fight We Can All Win
Why Me?
Holding My Feelings In
Me too.
Just Words
Multiple Times
A Ruined Life
My Fight
So Alone
With Love
I don’t know what to do
It will get better
My Two Rapes
intruder
Too naïve
Battling
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Rape of My Partner
Army
Spoke out and got fired
Rape Shaming
Assault
Sexual Abuse
He Never Apologized
I Thought I was Safe
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Enough Is Enough
So drunk I can’t remember
A Journal of a Wayward Child
2 Years Ago
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
My Horrific Nightmare
Raped By My Father
Rape
4 Years Ago
Many Years Ago
Your truth will change someones’ life.
יש חיים אחרי אונס
After Wedding
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
I was raped
…
What Happened?
House help and cousin
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
When no means nothing
In Korea
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Circumstances Collided That Night
These Men are More Protected Than We...
A Nightmare
The Unforgetable Party
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Hundreds of Times
Hidden Emotions
My Story
Males can be victims too
I need some advice
Freshman Year
Salted Wound
Piano Teacher
I wanted to get high
Thought He Was A Friend
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
My Modeling Experience
My consent is just that…mine
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
A Family Cycle
I called him my friend
Forced, De-flowered
He Was My Friend
MS13
My Evil Brother
My sexual assault will not define me
Fled the Country
Raped After School
Ride from the Concert
Thank you for being LOUD!
My Younger Sister
My Horrific Nightmare
My Mother was raped and told me...
Unethical or illegal?
I like to think I won’t feel...
De Los 6 a Los 12
The Night That Changed My Life
I Will Never Forget
I wish I never knew
Rape or Not?
I thought you loved me
Restoring Innocence
I was 8 years old
Domestic Rape
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
LOST
Just Wanted to Escape
Raped at age 9 & 15
When I Was 11…
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I Was Raped
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
Help!! What Can I Do?
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Prey
Smoke Together
My Best Friend’s Brother
I Was Only 14
הסיפור שלי…
Young and Unaware
Family Member
MesS Into A mesSage
Marital Rape
I was sexually assaulted
No Comfort
Childhood rape
No More Silence
Raped by My Ex
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
Rock It!
