#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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I thought he was my friend
Happy Birthday
Childhood Rape
The Night My Life Changed
That’s not Me, it’s Her
The thief
Innocence Taken
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
What’s Done Is Done
Black Girl
We Need Peace Too
Scar
Just Words
Raped at 17
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
I want to Call it what it...
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
I know when I see a rapist...
16 times
Mrs.
Night Out
Myself
Molestation
End of Innocence
All men are the same
My Story
Date gone wrong
Relationship does not equal consent
Child Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
my teacher grabbed me
My little girl
Stronger Every Day
De Los 6 a Los 12
Throughout my teen years
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
How Many Times?
The cycle
Raped and Never Forgotten
My Rapists I Grew Up With
I was raped
The Guy I Trusted
My Brothers Two Best Friends
A Year After
Seis Años
My Two Cents
My Story
לא יוצאים מזה…
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
What Is Happening
Why Me?
My Husband Set Me Up!
By my friend
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
7 years and it still controls me
What Is Success?
I Was Only 7
I’m not broken but worse. I’m dead.
Father Figure
I Thought He Loved Me
Rape
Just Playing
Feeling Alone
They Laughed
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Glitter Girl, Gone.
עדיין מציק
My Daughter and I Both
Childhood Abuse
Broken Girl
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Help
My First Boyfriend
Nightmare
Bringing the Stories to Light
Molested as a Child
Rape
Incapacitated Still
A School Trip
Army
I don’t know what happened
Too drunk to respond
Just Hanging Out
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Dating & Relatives
No Longer Silent
En Enero de 2010
My younger brother
My Nightmare
I Dated My Rapists
Bad Decisions
Family Member
Today is my time to cry
Left Me In Pieces
When will it be enough?
Raped by a work colleague
In Denial of My Rape
75 Percent Humidity
Date Rape
Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Someday Soon
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Still Unable to Tell People
I tried to bury it for seven...
Sexual Abuse
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
To the men who hurt me
Just Playing
My Story
Embrace It All
I was born for this
The First Time
Not Really Love
Attempted Rape
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Night of Psychedelic Horror
April 8th, 2016
Male dancer
My Story
Spoke out and was blamed
5 Years On
Does “No” mean nothing?
3 Strikes and No More
כמוני כמוך
Sexual Assault
לפני 14 שנים
Gang Rape
Parental Incest Is Rape
LOST
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Childhood Rape
Drunken rape
It never stops changing you
I never knew he was Satan
Summer 2019
f*ck you
Forever Changed
I Was a Fool for Him
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My Fault or His
I still see him on campus
Raped By My Therapist
She Should Be Over It
They asked if I was lying
Still Hurting
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
Not Guilty
My First Time
Rape
You Must Acknowledge
I Was Just A Baby
He Never Apologized
My First Memories….
Overtaken Twice
Young and Unaware
I don’t know who I am
Tree House
Lying Child Molester
College Rape
Scars
College Rape
I Am Finally FREE
Army
Politeness Serves No One
Raped in College
Just A Party
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Repressed Memory
She’s a survivor
Raped and Numbed
Ms.
Family members ex husband
Living With Us
Broken Trust
16 times
April 8th, 2016
Politeness Serves No One
Someone so close to me
I Remember Being Happy
Why: A Poem About My Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I am not a rape victim
I was raped last summer
Since Age 6?
היי לינור
Trusted Him
Date Rape
The First Man In My Life
אוףףףף
I was molested and raped at 6
Raped in the Air Force
Never Ending
Hidden Emotions
Thank you for being LOUD!
My Story
Never Be the Same Again
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
raped by my own brother
ללינור היקרה
My story growing up with a secret
היי
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Brave
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
He’s Still Out There
Deep Scars
We were drunk
How Many Times?
Raped by stranger x2
Torn
Rape?
גבר אלים וחולני
More Than a Survivor
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
Help !
My Friend
20 Years Later
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
Lasting memories
Breaking the Silence


