#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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I Trusted Him
The Statistics that Changed Me
3 Strikes and No More
Raped By a Female
Why I’m sorry
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Multiple Times
Speaking Up for Women
Summer 2019
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
My sexual assault will not define me
When All Hope is Gone
ptsd
Rape Under Intoxication
Why does this keep happening to me?
Kidnapped and Raped
Raped and Never Forgotten
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Kidnapped
It’s my fault
Cavemen
“Me too” On Facebook
University Bar
Did He Rape Me?
When will it be enough?
I Still Blame Myself
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Can Anyone Help?
Does the pain ever go away?
Politeness Serves No One
My Husband Set Me Up!
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Confused by Rape
In Front of My Girls
Why Halloween Is So Hard For Me
My story growing up with a secret
Off My Shoulders
The Party I Will Never Forget
He Took My Virginity
My Story
Date Rape
Assault, Battery, and Rape
April 19th
Weak
Perfect on Paper
Bartender Lies
Mi Esposa
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Ketamine Rape
I blamed myself for so long
The Man Who Never Was
Un-Silenced
A Nightmare
In NYC
I am a Rape Survivor
Infatuation
Thank You
Afraid of Him
The Statistics that Changed Me
What sent me over the edge
Abuse of Men and By My Mother
Lasting memories
3 Days After Arriving at College
Circumstances Collided That Night
More Witness than I Care to Live...
A respectable collegue
You Were My Friend
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
dad and mom rape
Myself
My age was never taken into account
Unethical or illegal?
Red Flags
Rape
Thank you
Multiple Times
Raped and Almost Raped and Harassed
היי
Why
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Hiding from the Weather
raped by my own brother
Abused and defeated
Confronting My Step-Father
I am a survivor
In The Past
My Two Days of Hell
My trauma and its effects
How My Life Has Changed
My 21st Birthday
Hostage
I know when I see a rapist...
Endless Shame
Sexual Assault
I Was Only 7
הסיפור שלי…
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Breaking The Silence
Ms.
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Remember November
Seis Años
Last Party
A Story
Quarterly Review
Molested By My Cousin
Just Words
3x
25 years of fear
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Sex doll
Be Careful Who You Trust
Middle School
Raped By a Family Member
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
A letter to my rapist
What happened to me?
Feeling weak
Army
Years later… meeting my rapist again
I’ve survived sexual abuse
He Was My Boyfriend
My Life
The Stepmonster
It was never…..That
More Than Once
Still Can’t Believe It
The Devil You Know
An Embarrassing Situation
Mi Historia
Bringing the Stories to Light
I was used. I got left. I...
Confused
Raped in the Air Force
Sex doll
I Am Finally FREE
My 21st Birthday
The Statistics that Changed Me
Lightening Does Strike Twice
It wasn’t my fault
Trauma
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Life Is Rough
Rape Survivor
Was it my fault?
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Michelle Johnston
Family Secrets
First Crush
17
Was it Really Rape
I want my innocence back
Frozen in fear
Not Safe in Your Own Family
My experience as an intern in highschool
I was born for this
Ex
blackmailed
My story
An Uber Driver Raped Me
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
I was raped
Unsure
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Was I raped?
I want to be better
Betrayed By a Loved One
Rape
Creepy Grand Uncle
Fraternity gang rape
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Ex-boyfriend rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
The children are the priority here
Drunken Rape
Am I Wrong?
My story
Love and Forced abortion
Chaos
Me Too!
Still Going
My Safe Place
Erase and Rewind
I called him my friend
My Story
Simply My Story
Male dancer
I was very dumb.
I Thought I Could Trust Him
Rape
Dirty Whore
לא יוצאים מזה…
In The Concrete Jungle
I wanted to get high
Find Your Strength
Smoke Together
sexual assault
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Birthday Rape
Six Years of Denial
Date Rape
My best friend
My Story
Party Time
My boyfriend
Too naïve
All men are the same
Spoke out and was blamed
Date Rape
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
If I Were Stronger Then
I Lost My Virginity
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
Rape by Boyfriend
my story
Drunken rape
15
Raped By a Family Member
Repressed Memory
I Am a Survivor
Naive
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Too much trauma
Nobody Knows
Everyone loves him
Rude awakening
A Victim No Longer
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Gang Rape
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
De Los 6 a Los 12
I’m Alive
My husband was molested as a child
My Safe Place
7 years and it still controls me
Despedida
We met at the bar
Molested by my biological father
5 Years On
My husband raped me when I took...
My Snowball Effect
The Same Effect
עדיין מציק
So drunk I can’t remember
My Husband Set Me Up!
Party Accident
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Confused by Rape
Sexual abuse by brother
I regret not telling
My Biggest Secret
It started with you.
SA in school
Roommates
Raped at a Birthday Party
אוףףףף
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Family members ex husband
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
ללינור היקרה
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Nobody Knows
Guilt and Shame Almost Killed
לפני 14 שנים
Help
There are a lot of assholes on...
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Stuck
my story
Brothers
When I Was 8 Years Old
Being Raped
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Choose Hope

Sexual Abuse
School Bathroom
Never Be the Same Again
Shout Out
College Professor
לפני 14 שנים
My 21st Birthday
Raped
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Dream / Recall
You had no rights
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
Long way back
Fraternity Men
Not all friends are true
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Today is my time to cry
#metoo
Prey
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Catfished
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Thank you
הטרידו אותי
Katie Jones
כמוני כמוך
I Never Give Up

