#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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Myself
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Multiple Date Rapes/Sexual Abuse During Teen Years...
I didn’t know what to do
Does the pain ever go away?
MesS Into A mesSage
Employer rape
ללינור היקרה
Left Me In Pieces
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
Am i being raped?
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Thank you for being LOUD!
Messed Up
To this day I still feel sick…
A Life of Pain
Babysitters
היי לינור
True Tales No One Knows
Being Done
Finding Words
I still feel “crazy”
Never Again
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Rape
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Trader Joes
Scared and Confused
Attempted Rape
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
לפני 14 שנים
Second Date
Years later… meeting my rapist again
#IStandWithHer
It never goes away
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
I want my innocence back
My story
My boss
I’m Confused
The Statistics that Changed Me
Close of a Brother
Lied to left brain damged
I am More than a Victim
I met evil at a young age
לא יוצאים מזה…
Useless tears
Salted Wound
Stolen Innocence
First Time
In Denial of My Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
#MeToo I am 1
I Barely Knew Them
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Rape by family
My Innocence Was Taken Away
You Can’t Trust Anyone
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I met evil at a young age
Confused
So drunk I can’t remember
Do you remember your first time?
Letter to My Rapist
Rape
Raped At 16, 29, 31
Neighbor Trust
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Just a Kid
April 19th
Happy Birthday
At 17yr old was raped by my...
My Father’s Funeral
Breaking the Silence

Three Times in a Row
You Must Acknowledge
Say Something
Ride from the Concert
My cousins friend
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Was it rape?
My Daughter
Finally Arrested
Rape
J’avais 13 ans
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Rape
The First Man In My Life
Spoke out and was blamed
4 Years Ago
Shame Destroys
It can happen to boys too!
I blamed myself for so long
The Statistics that Changed Me
Day at the Lake
Too naïve
I want to be better
My Story
Travel
Love of My Life?
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
My Friend’s House
All Just Too Much
Sexual Assault by Chiropractor
April 2015
Deja Vu
Don’t Give Up

They Laughed
Living With Us
Despedida
I guess it was rape
Sex doll
The Story of a Boy
It never stopped
Politeness Serves No One
I Was Just a Dancer
The Diaper in the Corner
My Mother’s Albatross
Sexual Assault
19 years later and still thinking about...
My First Time Speaking Up
Shelter My Soul
Male dancer
Rape Survivor
I Was 3 Years Old
Mi Historia
I thought we were friends
Hidden But Not Forgotten
Kibbutz
Justice
Rape is Real
Freeing myself of demons
Unethical or illegal?
My Story
Drugged
I Thought I Could Trust Him
Still Can’t Believe It
Do I even belong here?
Ready to Share
I am a Rape Survivor
He was right
Don’t Know
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Nirbhaya “ fearless”: Justice for the Brutal...
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Surviving my father
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I Thought I Knew Him
הטרידו אותי
I didn’t know
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Raped By a Female
Long way back
I was raped…
I Thought He Loved Me
Thank You
40 years
I am 1 in 4
The Life I Live
Child sexual abuse
Broken Girl
Is this normal?
היי
Sexual Abuse
Let’s Fight Back With Love
En Enero de 2010
עדיין מציק
I Thought I was Safe
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Rape by Boyfriend
A Private College; A Private Rape
I Choose Hope
