#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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En Enero de 2010
Locked Up
I’m Doing You a Favor
Be Happy It Only Involves Your Daughter
He Took My Virginity
School Rape
My story growing up with a secret
Mi Esposa
Circumstances Collided That Night
Camp rape
Politeness Serves No One
35 Years Ago
Why did this happen to me???
What sent me over the edge
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
my story
Not friends
Virgin Rape
I like to think I won’t feel...
Half sister
Start of grooming at 15
The Night That Changed Me
You Were My Friend
Sexually assaulted several times
A Letter to My Rapist
They asked if I was lying
Confused
I Thought I Was Safe
כמוני כמוך
I finally said NO
I thought he was a friend
A Story
Grandpa
With Love
Still Going
I Said No
Fraternity gang rape
ללינור היקרה
Army
עדיין מציק
the scary shadows
Lesbian After Assaults
My Story, My Nightmare
היי
4 Years Ago
הסיפור שלי…
Just Words
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Second Night of College
Online dating
I didn’t know
Why
גבר אלים וחולני
Bringing the Stories to Light
My Best Friend
Never Forget
Boyfriend Hell
Rape Survivor
Date Raped When I Was 15
Freshman Year
Letter to my offender
A Lifetime
Fenced In
My abuse
J’avais 13 ans
I am a survivor
Sexual harassment
my toxic relationship
Abusive Relationship
Raped because of who I loved
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Date Rape
I met evil at a young age
My Safe Place
Drunk and taken advantage of
Enough Is Enough
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Is this normal?
My Evil Cousins
Sex doll
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
My Fight
Weak
Erase and Rewind
I Thought I Was Safe
הטרידו אותי
The Statistics that Changed Me
From Grief to Trauma
I Was Manipulated
Girls Without Parents
Domestic Rape is Real
Realization of Rape
Rape
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Thank you
Weathering The Storm
היי לינור
Freeing myself of demons
Summer 2019
Lying Child Molester
My Story of a Gang Rape
I didn’t think she would do this
It’s OK
A familiar fight
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My abuse story victim to survivor
Lasting Effects
A Big Man
לפני 14 שנים
f*ck you
not the typical rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
My Friend’s House
De Los 6 a Los 12
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Still Think It Was My Fault
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Date Raped at 19
3 Days After Arriving at College
Growing Past Just Surviving
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I Was a Fool for Him
Rape
Sexual Assault
Help
Doctor Nightmares
Taking Back My Life
Ms.
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Spoke out and was blamed
Holding My Feelings In
I am a Survivor.
Rape Victim
Rape
Kidnapped
3x
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Assault, Battery, and Rape
My First Two Times
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
Myself
I was raped
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
My Story
Liar, Liar
I Pretend Like I Don’t Remember…But I...
I know when I see a rapist...
Never Wanted to Believe
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Its been Years
I am not a rape victim
College Student
Growth
Believe Her
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
Survivor
The Same Effect
Cousin Rape
Just a Child
Sexual Assault
Finally ready to tell my story
Rape
I Came Home
I was used. I got left. I...
Lasting memories
Male dancer
My Year in Hell
Powerful
Hospitalized
Rape
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Am I Over Reacting?
My Innocence Was Taken Away
Healing and releasing painful memories
Still searching for any type of answer....
NYC Vacation
Confused by Rape
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Find Your Strength
Lotus
I Was Raped By My Dad
Glitter Girl, Gone.
I Feel So Bad For Him…
My neighbor and his friends
Raped as a child and teen
I guess it was rape
Innocent Faith
Silent Rape
Victimization
Rape
The pain behind smile
Thank you for speaking out…
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
Girl Raped By a Girl
Extreme Blessings
Younger me
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Broken Hearted
A young mother
That’s not Me, it’s Her
Family rape
Rape
My husband raped me when I took...
Raped Husband
My story
Rape
Six Years Old
Walk Me?
Broken
Married to Abuser
Deja Vu
Is It Really Rape?
Shelter My Soul
Molested by my biological father
Ready to Share
Different face, but the same monster
Almost Raped
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
Kibbutz
The Cliche
Not Alone
Too naïve
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
Every Way Imaginable
The Girl Who Went To College
Wrong Choice
College Student
In 1978
Working Through It
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Survivor of Rape
They thought it was fun
Way Back in 1973
My step dad raped me
Mi Historia
Thought He Was A Friend
אוףףףף
Raped twice within a few hours
16 times
The First Time
Child sexual abuse
Raped in my own bed
Raped by my boyfriend
Dream / Recall
First Date
My 11 Year Old Selfs Story
The Night My Life Changed
Only I get to make choices for...
Guilt and Shame Almost Killed
She Should Be Over It
1 in 5
Raped in the Air Force
Multiple Rape
Still Going
The reason for my tattoo
Never Be the Same Again
Date Rape
First Love to Long Term Abuse
They thought it was fun
My Side
Weak
army
Confused and Angry
19 years later and still thinking about...
All Just Too Much
My First Two Times
Bringing the Stories to Light
Relationship does not equal consent
A Beautiful Trap
My Fight
Incest & Date Rape
Through the Window
Friends No Longer
Trauma
Forgotten Memories Submerge
A respectable collegue
My Daughter’s Story
Seis Años
Believe Her
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
I Trusted Him
School Rape
Can Someone Help Me!
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Victim No Longer
Was it rape?
A Letter to My Rapist
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Metoo
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Freshman on Campus
My babysitter
So Many Times
Together, We Are Brave
