#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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Who I Once Called My Father
Ex-Boyfriend
Army
Hidden Emotions
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
I loved him
My Brother
Only I get to make choices for...
My Story of Rape
I Accepted My Past
Sexual Abuse
I Am Finally FREE
Night walk at community center
Was It Rape
Rape
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
Molested
It was his word against mine
3 incidents
Thank you
Date Rape
ללינור היקרה
Start of grooming at 15
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
Rape
Brother & Sister
The Night That Changed My Life
I Just Started High School
That “man”
I was born for this
Feeling Alone
Multiple Times
Molested By My Step Brother
Quarterly Review
Not Over It
It Started with my Brother
הטרידו אותי
My Own Brother
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
Stuck
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Male dancer
Scared Like Crazy
Years later… meeting my rapist again
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
The Story Of Two Rapes
I’m Confused
Innocent Faith
A Rough Life
Tormented
He was jealous of my new friend
I am not a rape victim
With Love
Date Rape
He was right
De Los 6 a Los 12
Party Time
Myself
The Devil You Know
I Never Give Up

2 Strangers
Ready to Share
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
Mistaken Identity
Holiday Rape
Sexual Abuse
Enough Is Enough
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I Was Only 7
First College Party
Father Figures
It was in a society that told...
My best friends dad
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
I want my innocence back
Lost Soul
LOST
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Summer 2019
Raped By Family
Blackout
Afraid of Being Judged
Don’t Want to Anymore
My Rapists I Grew Up With
my story
Shattered Childhood
Seis Años
Life of Trauma
My Rape Story
Halloween 2014
Erase and Rewind
Raped
It Started with my Brother
He Was My Boyfriend
All Just Too Much
Six months in the making..
Working Through It
Molested While Sleeping
Letter to…
Young and Unaware
Proof, but no Witnesses
I lost myself before I even knew...
I Am Still Standing
Married My Rapist
“raped” by my long time bf
Last Party
Worst Day Ever
I didn’t think she would do this....
Drug raped
My Husband Set Me Up!
My Modeling Experience
Worst Day Ever
Are you sure?
Amusement Park
Raped by Abusive Husband
Bringing the Stories to Light
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Need advice
Sex doll
Drugged
Raped in the Air Force
Don’t Belive Your Cousins
Blamed Myself
Did He Rape Me?
Off My Shoulders
I forgot, but then I remembered
I Need to Tell Someone
I Told Him No
Trusted Him
I’m Disgusted
הסיפור שלי…
Miss
Surviving, Kinda
Ex-Boyfriend
College Rape
Ms.
Alone and Afraid
Rape
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Under Age drinking
Was led by the quarterback
Rape
My Own Street
I Thought He Loved Me
In NYC
Raped at 17
New Years Eve
sexual assault & abuse
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
My Snowball Effect
Catching Up With Me
A Story
Empty
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Date Rape
Shelter My Soul
Michael B. raped me
The Power of Victimization
Denial
Thank You
Just Another Night
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
lucky
Stronger
Incapacitated Still
So Now What?
17
En Enero de 2010
Intruded
Nothing for Nothing
The Touches I Felt
After 14 Years
Rape
Just Another Night
Family Ties
You had no rights
Almost Raped
High School Orientation
Love of My Life?
Drugged and Raped
I was used. I got left. I...
I Recorded my Rapist
Being Done
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
לא יוצאים מזה…
Rape
I am J. D. R., and I...
MesS Into A mesSage
Me Too!
Bad Programming
I know when I see a rapist...
Never Seemed Worth Telling
Just Playing
I met evil at a young age
Too naïve
Shelter My Soul
Male Rape Victims Suffer in Silence
Hundreds of Times
Mi Esposa
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
עדיין מציק
Bringing the Stories to Light
Not Guilty
Raped in a Psychiatric Hospital in the...
He Was a Cop
Was It My Fault?
How My Life Has Changed
Kidnapped in Naples
Moving On
Him or Me
Tormented
Myself
Domestic Rape
Molested
Just Words
A Lifetime of pain
Abused by another child
f*ck you
My First Boyfriend
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Breaking the Trust
Is this normal?
Gang Rape
What If I Make You?
My Last Party
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
True View
My Story
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
Pastor’s Son
Unlucky
Date Rape Drug
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Rape Victim
The Statistics that Changed Me
My Secret
My First Two Times
He Cashed in His Trust
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Drugged
היי
Child sexual abuse
Betrayal
Severe childhood trauma, due to drunken, irresponsible,...
I Really Want To Forget About It
Travelling
A Victim No Longer
Careful What You Wish For
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Aftermath
Messed Up
My Daughter
Rape Shaming
My sisters boyfriend abused me
I was 17 and survived
Those 8 hours
Every Way Imaginable
I Was 3 Years Old
Warning
Learning to Live With My Rape
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Raped By a Female
My Brothers Two Best Friends
What’s Done Is Done
J’avais 13 ans
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Dream Job, Turned Nightmare
Despedida
Unethical or illegal?
Second Date
What Is Happening
More Than a Survivor
My story growing up with a secret
He Was a Cop
אוףףףף
A Picture
Trying to Survive
Mi Historia
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Longest Prayers of My Life
To my best friend who raped me
A Victim No Longer
I Too Was Raped
An Unknown Face & Hands
3x
Gang rape
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
לפני 14 שנים
Stupid Coward
I did Not need to know this
I Am Brave!
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
Stronger Every Day
I was just 9.
גבר אלים וחולני
Remember November
You were supposed to be my friend
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped in College
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
By my friend
Saying No Just Wasn’t Enough
Spoke out and was blamed
A respectable collegue
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
היי לינור
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I will not stay silent
incest
Survivor

