#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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Out For A Walk
I Was 19
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
I Blame Myself
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Alone and depressed
Read This Please
Life Was Ruined
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
היי
Myself
My Journey as a Rape survivor from...
Abusive Relationship
College Professor
You were supposed to be my friend
Thank you for being LOUD!
Shame
Sharing #MeToo’s
Still Unable to Tell People
כמוני כמוך
He Was a Cop
Politeness Serves No One
Surpris à la Maison
I Didn’t Know
I never knew he was Satan
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Welcome To Adulthood
my story
Was I raped?
Warrior
גבר אלים וחולני
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Camilla’s Story
My Rape
Drugged
Not safe in my own skin
Three Times in a Row
Rape
Kidnapped and Raped
Forced, De-flowered
High School Orientation
My Story
Not Really Love
Erase and Rewind
I did Not need to know this
Roommates
יש חיים אחרי אונס
My First Time
Trusted Him
My Mother Was Raped
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
I’m Doing You a Favor
Sex doll
In 1978
Accepting myself and my story after…
Seis Años
Family
Okay, Not Okay
Prom’s ideals
Unethical or illegal?
He doesn’t even know he raped me
My Story
Halloween Nightmare
Repressed Memory
Friend of mines set me up
My Nightmare
Just Friends
Never Lose Hope
Just Words
Raped by a work colleague
I thought he liked me
My experience as an intern in highschool
My posting
It Was the Second
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Now I Understand My Husband
I thought we were friends
A respectable collegue
עדיין מציק
My posting
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
I Said No
Male dancer
Stranger Danger
Almost A Stranger
Why Me?
I Thought He Loved Me
3 Days After Arriving at College
Ended in Rape
Drugged and Gang Raped
Survivor

לא יוצאים מזה…
My story
So Much Pain Its Overwhelming
I can say it now
Being Done
Myself
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
I Thought I Was Safe
De Los 6 a Los 12
En Enero de 2010
Dream / Recall
Today is my time to cry
Ride from the Concert
Sexual Assault
March 1, 2008
lucky
Raped by my step fathers
I regret not telling
My Brave Daughter
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Prisoner of Love
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Memories
I was only 5
A Survivor, Not a Victim
Broken Girl
My Story.
Forgiving My Rapist
Girl Raped By a Girl
MY Inspirational Story
Confused by Rape
The year that changed me
Lesbian After Assaults
Am I
Multiple Times
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Spousal Rape
Senior Trip
My teacher and my step-brother
It wasn’t your fault
Doctor Nightmares
Perfect on Paper
I’m Doing You a Favor
16 and 45
Trapped In a Fantasy World
The Night That Changed My World
So drunk I can’t remember
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Mi Historia
The Statistics that Changed Me
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Trader Joes
Bringing the Stories to Light
Scammer
He Was a Family Friend
My Story
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I am a Rape Survivor
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Didn’t Know I Had Been Raped
Rape & Sexual Assault
Why Me?
Made in America
Too Trusting
My year abroad
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Afraid of Being Judged
Spoke out and was blamed
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Childhood Abuse
Just wanted to be loved
Middle school sexual harassment
Since Age 6?
When I Was Three
First Frat Party
His name was Kenneth
A Big Man
Blackout
Does the pain ever go away?
Incest
Disappointed
Raped After School
Multiple Date Rapes/Sexual Abuse During Teen Years...
I was raped
I Still Blame Myself
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Raped in the Air Force
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
“Trust me, take a chance”
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Proof, but no Witnesses
The Summer of 2013
A familiar fight
Online dating
Lasting memories
Halloween Nightmare
It was his word against mine
Life Is Rough
A sociopath in disguise
Domestic Abuse
This Is My Story
Naive
My Daughter and I Both
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
I Was 19
My Daddy
Simply My Story
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Just Violated
Thought He Was A Friend
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
Stockholm
Rape Shaming
Unwanted Flashbacks
Metoo
Family Rape
3 incidents
The Girl Who Went To College
Friends?
Bad Morning
Rape in my locked home
My Relationship With Dad
My Brother’s Best Friend
My Story
Abused as a Child
A Lifetime of Trauma
In NYC
Multiple Times
Story Subject: * I thought he was...
College Rape
Ms.
I know when I see a rapist...
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Was it rape?
Freshman Year
Girls Without Parents
Prisoner of Love
Hope for Healing
Living Nightmare
My Brave Daughter
Someone I Dated
St. Louis Riots
Army
My Scars Do Not Define Me
ללינור היקרה
Mi Esposa
Childhood Trauma
I Was Only 7
Six months in the making..
Summer 2019
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
Perfect on Paper
Tinder Rape
Raped by Him
My sexual assault
Too naïve
My so called “best friend”
My Parents Didnt Do Anything
Never Be the Same Again
I Never Give Up
