#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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More Than Half of My Life Ago
We go to the same church
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Today is my time to cry
Thank you
The Boys Club Continues
Mine Was Different
The Party I Will Never Forget
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
I Dated My Rapists
Erased From Memory
When Does It End
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
Step Dad
Unethical or illegal?
Drugged After Junior Prom
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
So Many Times
raped by my own brother
Raped by my step fathers
So drunk I can’t remember
I Blame Myself
Why does this keep happening to me?
Frozen in fear
Rape
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Cradle to the grave
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Touching
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Online dating
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Michael B. raped me
A Night To Remember
Prom Night
College Rape
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
7th Grade Assault
My Rape Stories
The Statistics that Changed Me
April 19th
Male dancer
Abused by another child
No Stranger
Molested by Cousin
I Am a Survivor…
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Roommates
Disappointed
Our Corrupted Country
I am a survivor
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Do NOT Trust Strangers
My 21st Birthday
Be Happy It Only Involves Your Daughter
Sex doll
Finally ready to tell my story
Why didn’t I do anything?
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Help !
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Halting The Pain
Ms.
Mi Esposa
כמוני כמוך
Army
Michelle Johnston
My Rape Story
First Time
What sent me over the edge
blackmailed
Rape
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Despedida
Why does this keep happening to me?
Denial
I wish I could change the past
Trapped
לפני 14 שנים
So Now What?
Mi Historia
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
A Beautiful Trap
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
No one owns your story but you
Abused as a Child
Rape
Thank You
I Need to Tell Someone
My best friends dad
I don’t know who I am
When I Was 7
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
I Am A Survivor
Denial
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Bringing the Stories to Light
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Read This Please
I blamed myself for so long
Keep it to myself
Under Age drinking
A respectable collegue
My Story
Rape and Not Believed
Knowledge is Power
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Life Changer
I Came Home
My Father’s Funeral
Are you sure?
ללינור היקרה
Need advice
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Raped at 14
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
Goodbye Virginity
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Just a Child
Even Lawyers Get Raped
Bad Place…Bad…Bad…Bad
My Story
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Stuck
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
They asked if I was lying
The Night That Changed My World
An Acquaintance
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Okay, Not Okay
Nashville Sweetheart
I didn’t know
I said no
Army
I should have never meet my biological...
Sexually assulted by coworker
Spoke out and was blamed
Hope for Healing
Woke up violated and confused.
Summer 2019
Not Remembering
The First Man In My Life
Raped Three Times
It never stops changing you
Date Rape
This Is Me, my fight song
A Victim No Longer
Permanently Scarred
My Sister and I were Abused
Had Her Back
Raped in the Air Force
Amusement Park
Safe Isn’t Always What We Believe
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Naive
Spousal Rape
The First Time
No means yes to some
My Daughter’s Story
Being drunk is not consent
Black and Blue
The Girl Who Went To College
Locked Up
Raped By My Therapist
School Bathroom
Not Another Moment
Too naïve
Confused by Rape
Childhood End
My Story
Raped as a Young Boy
What Is Success?
Myself
Marital Rape
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Tulane Law
My Mother’s Albatross
I Thought It Was My Fault
He Stole Something From Me
Grandpa
My survival story
Third time’s the charm
En Enero de 2010
November ’08
Raped By 6 Policemen
Forced, De-flowered
My Friend’s House
Rape
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
I Thought I Knew Hi
Hundreds of Times
Keeping Faith
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Father Figure
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Sexually assaulted at 4
Not safe in my own skin
1 hour 3 days
My Boss Raped Me
Continue to Survive
Afraid of the Truth
A Meek Young Girl
Surviving sexual assault trauma
Molested at 3
The Statistics that Changed Me
The Night That Changed Me
My Own Street
I was sexually assaulted
Mrs
היי לינור
Still Rape
I didn’t enderstand what was happening
My Horrific Nightmare
My story growing up with a secret
Sexual Abuse
Multiple Times
why me
Was I assaulted?
Warning
My story of my date rape
He Was a Cop
Family
Need help
Breaking the Trust
Scammer
Too Young
Scar
I am a Survivor
End of Innocence
Hidden But Not Forgotten
My Rape Story
Used
My “Step-father”
He Took Advantage of Me
He took everything
לא יוצאים מזה…
Kept From Us
Molested and Confused
It Was the Second
Too temping, I guess
Shattered Childhood
Can Anyone Help?
Males can be victims too
Who is Responsible?
Suffered and Survived
This is my story
Pastor’s Son
After 14 Years
גבר אלים וחולני
#metoo
My Fight
ללינור היקרה
Repressed Memory
The Loss of My Childhood
Together, We Are Brave
