#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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I Was Only 14
Grooming
My Daughter and I Both
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Too naïve
Breaking The Silence
Girl Raped By a Girl
He Took My Virginity
My Own Family
Over 40 years Ago
It is not my fault
I got away
Assaulted
7 years and it still controls me
אוףףףף
75 Percent Humidity
Halting The Pain
I Recorded my Rapist
I didn’t think she would do this
I Choose Hope

Male dancer
I Was Raped?
I said YES
I’m Disgusted
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
7th Grade Assault
לא יוצאים מזה…
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Do you remember your first time?
My Story
For the guy
Hundreds of Times
Sexual Abuse and Rape
When All Hope is Gone
Does the pain ever go away?
Rape
Raped
Narcissistic Ex
Despedida
Ms.
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
Scared Like Crazy
Why I Hate My Family
Memories Are Back
Raped by my Step Brother
Who Do I Trust
It still doesn’t feel real…
My Two Days of Hell
The Statistics that Changed Me
God Saved Me
A respectable collegue
Spoke out and was blamed
Rape
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Raped 14 times in 1 year
One Bad Decision
Survivor, Still Struggling
First Time
Rape Under Intoxication
Broken vase
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
What Is Success?
Sexual Coercion
The Boys Club Continues
My step dad raped me
Six months in the making..
My Friend’s House
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Start of grooming at 15
Last Party
Started With My Father
Raped in College
Sexually Assaulted or Not?
Too naïve
Lost In Time
Why Me?
College Professor
Army
The Life I Live
The Cliche
I Still Blame Myself
Raped by ex boyfriend
Halloween Nightmare
Perfect on Paper
כמוני כמוך
Trying To Help
ללינור היקרה
“I should do this more often”
A familiar fight
I know when I see a rapist...
Almost Raped
Nearly 50 years later
Summer 2019
With Love
Please Rape Me
Was it my fault
Breaking the Silence

College Rape
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Not all friends are true
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
The Statistics that Changed Me
Myself
Smoke Together
He Was My Friend
Drugged
My story
Fishing Trips
my story
Spring Break
The Terrible 4
A Rough Life
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
i was a child.
Afraid of the Truth
היי
Mistaken Identity
Scar
lucky
עדיין מציק
Dream / Recall
Me Too!
f*ck you
“raped” by my long time bf
Drugged
Digging my own grave
The Hole in My Heart
Still Can’t Believe It
J’avais 13 ans
Wide awake
Not normal
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Still Think It Was My Fault
Rape in my locked home
Close of a Brother
Military Man
Not A Trustworthy Man
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
I Am Brave!
No one owns your story but you
I am a survivor
My Mother Was Raped
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
Too Trusting
Say Something
Was it my fault?
Trauma
You had no rights
Sexually Assaulted
Rape
It Was My Fault
What If I Make You?
Just little girls
A Night I Can’t Remember
Fiance Father of my Child
Life of Trauma
I guess it was rape
Finally ready to tell my story
The Time I Was Raped
Will I ever get over it.
Piano Teacher
Multiple Assaults
When I Was 11…
So drunk I can’t remember
Raped in the Air Force
I Was Only 7
Army
Love of My Life?
Molested By a Stranger
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Sexual Abuse
Why Me Over and Over?
Shout Out
Bad Morning
The year that changed me
Finding Words
Former partner would berate me
raped and isolated
Stuck
My Journey Back to Life
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Finally Arrested
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
“You were lucky”
Prom Night
I was only 11
I am a survivor
Okay, Not Okay
A Meek Young Girl
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
My Fight
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Child sexual abuse
I Was 3 Years Old
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
Be Strong
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
הסיפור שלי…
School Prom
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
It’s Been 10 Years
Mi Historia
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
Tormented
Braver


