#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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A respectable collegue
Despedida
Few People Know
Raped by my Step Brother
Finally Arrested
Out For A Walk
כמוני כמוך
Rape?
Disappointed
The rape apology and my reply
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I Thought He Loved Me
Rape or Not?
Abuse Continued
Male dancer
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
Mi Historia
He was a friend
Nearly 50 years later
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A Silent Fighter
Rape and Anxiety
I Am Beautiful Now
3 Times is Not Charming
He was my younger brothers friend
Happy Hell-oween
My story growing up with a secret
My Relationship With Dad
In Korea
Mine Was Different
This Is My Story
Weak
So Now What?
Growing Past Just Surviving
A Letter to My Rapist
The Night That Changed My Life
I Can Barely Remember
I Didn’t Know What Happened
It never stopped
Didn’t Know I Had Been Raped
Mi Esposa
Twice a pattern?
Not Real Rape
23 year old virgin
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
“No” is Universal
Broken vase
My secret
Date Rape
Alcohol
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
In The Concrete Jungle
My Story
Sexual Abuse
I don’t know who I am
Date Rape
Locked Up
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
75 Percent Humidity
Scared
Raped By 6 Policemen
“Me too” On Facebook
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
He Was My Father
Rape by Boyfriend
Summer 2019
Amusement Park
Lost In Time
Do NOT Trust Strangers
My Story
Deja Vu
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Lying Child Molester
An Abnormal Reaction
Coping with rape during a pandemic
Multiple Assaults
Family members ex husband
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
3 Different Times
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Broken Girl
Was it my fault?
So Now What?
Halting The Pain
You were supposed to be my friend
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I Thought I was Safe
Why me?
Too Afraid To Tell
Incest abuse
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Stuck
my story
Black and Blue
Finally Arrested
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Pretty Girls
הטרידו אותי
my story-and where i “took it”…
40 years
Does the pain ever go away?
My little girl
Confused by Rape
My Story
My Beloved Man
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Fell In Love With a Monster
Are you sure?
My Ongoing Journey
Bringing the Stories to Light
Ms.
I Am Brave

A childhood to recover from
Was it Really Rape
75 Percent Humidity
Drugged
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Abused By A Therapist
Unbelievable
My step dad raped me
En Enero de 2010
Party Time
Assaulted
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Why does this keep happening to me?
Last Party
My principal mom raped me
We go to the same church
incest
Spoke out and was blamed
My best friend
I thought we were friends
Does the pain ever go away?
My Step Father
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
הסיפור שלי…
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
In NYC
I know when I see a rapist...
13 and 16
היי לינור
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Too naïve
I am a survivor and got over...
We Were Kids
My Last Party
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Sexual Abuse
Twice
My Story
Almost Raped
6 to 20
“My Rape” at University
His opportunity
Not Sure It Happened
A person to trust became my worst...
4 Years Ago
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Happy Birthday
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Raped in the Air Force
I Don’t Know My Story
ללינור היקרה
Tormented
God Saved Me
Male Rape Victims Suffer in Silence
Circumstances Collided That Night
3 years on
Holding My Feelings In
Two times. One year.
So drunk I can’t remember
HS Reunion
I was raped
Raped By My Therapist
Alone
Unethical or illegal?
That One Night
My Cousin
I didn’t enderstand what was happening
What happened to me doesn’t have to...
A story never told
I Was Just A Baby
Anxiety
I Am a Survivor…
Scarred for life
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
My Best Friend’s Brother
Was it Really Rape
Memories Are Back
Just Another Night
Growing Past Just Surviving
Rape
What Happened?
16 Years Later
My best friend raped me
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Grandpa
I was used. I got left. I...
I’m Only Stronger
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Thought I Knew Hi
He was supposed to be a friend
I Was a Fool for Him
Erase and Rewind
עדיין מציק
Raped by My Ex
My Step Brother
Way Back in 1973
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
It can happen to boys too!
I loved him
I need some advice
Roommates
Finally Arrested
Myself
אוףףףף
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Rape
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Childhood End
Red Flags
It never seems like Rape to me
Normalization
My Story
When I Was 8
#metoo
My best friend
Raped in College
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Unethical or illegal?
Why me
Sex doll
You Were My Friend
Restoring Innocence
It started with you.
Sexually Assaulted as a Child
I’m Not Sure
Rape Is Everywhere
I Didn’t Know
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Blindsided
Rape By Unknown
Thank you for being LOUD!
Raped by stranger x2
5 years now
When I Was 8 Years Old
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Growth
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Help
Raped by a so called friend
What Should I Do?
Who I Once Called My Father
Out of Control
My Journey as a Rape survivor from...
Pedophile Neighbour
Sexual Coercion
Impacted Forever
I’m Now a Statistic
My boyfriend of 2 years
What sent me over the edge
Drunk and Alone
My Story
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
A Day My Life Changed Forever
One Bad Decision
De Los 6 a Los 12
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Junior Prom
It’s A Long Story
No Justice
Breaking the Silence

