#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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Rock It!

So Alone
November ’08
You Must Acknowledge
My Two Days of Hell
Summer 2019
Beyond a story
My Ex-husband
Déja-vu
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
He Was My Friend
I Still Blame Myself
The Other Guy
Dirty Whore
Being Done
Moving On
Multiple Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
He was right
Metoo
When no means nothing
Why: A Poem About My Rape
The rape apology and my reply
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
The Power of Victimization
Sex doll
Multiple Times
College Rape
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Rape
College Campus Rape
Liberating Moment
Unsure
De Los 6 a Los 12
He said he’d never do it again
Male dancer
Prom’s ideals
I Was Just a Little Girl
Even Lawyers Get Raped
Just Words
My Boss Raped Me
Married My Rapist
I now know
לפני 14 שנים
To My Rapist
I just wanted to give him a...
Childhood rape
I Am Beautiful Now
Only I get to make choices for...
Hard Time
Was it rape?
My best friend raped me
My Mother was raped and told me...
It Was the Second
Felt safe in my friend group
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
How Many Times?
Ride from the Concert
היי לינור
Beyond a story
A Voice to be Heard
raped by my own brother
This Is Me, my fight song
What’s Done Is Done
Why me?
Breaking The Silence
My First Time
Roommates
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Spoke out and was blamed
I Hate You
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
I dont know what to call it
ללינור היקרה
ללינור היקרה
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Remember November
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
I will never forget
Letter to…
I Woke Up In The Tub
The Statistics that Changed Me
Finally Arrested
I Thought I Was Safe
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I Saved Myself
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Did I ask for it?
Childhood of assault
April 2015
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Spousal Rape
Knowledge is Power
In My Home
אוףףףף
I still feel “crazy”
After 14 Years
My Story
Abuse and Rape
Not Safe in Your Own Family
כמוני כמוך
Bad Morning
I was attacked at 19 years old
My year abroad
Black and Blue
Ignored For a Lifetime
By my friend
With Love
He Took My Virginity
Raped in the Air Force
40 years
Daycare Teacher
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Sexual Assault
He Destroyed Me
A School Trip
Three Times in a Row
Our Corrupted Country
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
My survival story
Life After Death
What Is Success?
I Said No
This Is My Story
Raped as a Young Boy
The Devil You Know
En Enero de 2010
Cavemen
Raped by my step fathers
It was not my fault
A sociopath in disguise
Almost A Stranger
College Rape
You Were My Brother’s Best Friend
I Was 20
So Many Times
I was raped and didn’t know
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Life of Trauma
The abuser
I was raped
I Was Nearly Raped
Why Me?
Broken Hearted
I didn’t think she would do this
הסיפור שלי…
Healing and releasing painful memories
Afraid of Being Judged
Choose healing over silence
Unethical or illegal?
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
My Mother was raped and told me...
One Of Many
Unknown Abuse by Biological Father
Raped by stranger x2
Raped by my Stepfather
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
He Lied
Despedida
Rape Victim
Hateful
Naive College Freshman
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Thank you for being LOUD!
Child sexual abuse
Lotus
Too temping, I guess
Doctor Nightmares
Rape
Rape
Ketamine Rape
I Woke Up In The Tub
I know when I see a rapist...
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
הטרידו אותי
Ms.
Still Lost :/
Say Something
Roofied
Stolen Innocence
Fear
לא יוצאים מזה…
The Night That Changed My Life
Broken Girl
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Denial
Shame Destroys
Too naïve
Don’t Give Up

Close of a Brother
Naive and Raped at 15
keep it a secret
Rape
My Story
My Side
Many Years Ago
Family rape
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
ONLY the Beginning
Christmas Horror
Grandpa Molested me
He was my best friend
Just Another Night
My First Two Times
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
Knowledge is Power
The First Time
Empty
Trader Joes
7 years and it still controls me
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
J’avais 13 ans
Girls Without Parents
My First Two Times
School Bathroom
Multiple Date Rapes/Sexual Abuse During Teen Years...
Myself
My Childhood
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Manipulation
Fraternity Men
Naive and Vulnerable
Bad Decision
Fenced In
Enough Is Enough
So drunk I can’t remember
There Is Hope For Us
A childhood to recover from
Politeness Serves No One
Mi Esposa
i was sexually abused
Innocence Taken
My Rape Story
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
היי
Blaming Myself
Never Lose Hope
13 and 16
At the Movie’s
Army
Raped and Never Forgotten
Michelle Johnston
My so called “best friend”
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
Tulane Law
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
Only 12
Raped Three Times
My Rape Stories
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Innocence
Taking Back My Life
The Day I Was Raped
Sex doll
No one owns your story but you
April 19th
This Is My Story
First Frat Party
My Innocence Was Taken Away
My story growing up with a secret
Sexual Assault
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
College Rape
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
No Comfort
Me Too!
Virgin Rape
Sexual Abuse
I Thought I Knew Hi
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I was 5.
Scared Like Crazy
I Am Not Brave
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
Why Me?
Proof, but no Witnesses
He Was My Boyfriend
Drunken Rape
Warning
I Don’t Trust My Father
Erase and Rewind
I Was Only 7
Just a Kid
What now…?
A Loss to Mankind
Who is Responsible?
High School Rape
My First Two Times
Mrs.
An Abnormal Reaction
My Side
A respectable collegue
In The Concrete Jungle
It Happened More Than Once
I Am a Survivor…
I Never Give Up
