#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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My Story of a Gang Rape
Male dancer
1 hour 3 days
Why does this keep happening to me?
Mi Esposa
My Story
Out For A Walk
לא יוצאים מזה…
Too Afraid To Tell
Trapped In a Fantasy World
You Must Acknowledge
Assault
Just Words
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Three weeks, every day..
My Two Rapes
10 Years!
Erased From Memory
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Nothing important…
Playing House
Sex doll
Fiance Father of my Child
Mi Esposa
Black and Blue
Started With My Father
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Stong Woman
Thank you
It still doesn’t feel real…
i was a child.
I wanted to get high
Flashbacks
I Am Still Standing
Mental Breakdown
The Statistics that Changed Me
עדיין מציק
When Will This Nightmare End
“Me too” On Facebook
I Think I Was Raped
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
November ’08
Spoke out and was blamed
Surpris à la Maison
Cradle to the grave
I’m Not Sure
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Don’t Know
my story
היי
Unethical or illegal?
6 to 20
Breaking the Trust
Digging my own grave
I wanted to get high
I wish I remembered
My story of my date rape
Remember as a victim you have done...
I know when I see a rapist...
I’m Not Sure
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Summer 2019
A sociopath in disguise
My Ex-husband
Are you sure?
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A respectable collegue
Raped by my boyfriend
Raped twice within a few hours
Does the pain ever go away?
I Was 3 Years Old
Warning
So Now What?
Nothing for Nothing
In The Concrete Jungle
Rape
Never thought I could be a victim
Tinder Rape
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Our Corrupted Country
Miss
I Accepted My Past
Friends No Longer
Male dancer
It Was the Second
It Was the Second
My story growing up with a secret
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
Raped By 6 Policemen
Rude awakening
My Mom
Raped at the Air Force Academy
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Close of a Brother
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Why Me?
Incest
Because of You
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Raped because of who I loved
So Now What?
Speaking Up for Women
Manhandling to Rape
f*ck you
Why Me?
Didn’t Know Until Later
He was jealous of my new friend
The pain that was never mine to...
What Should I Do?
Raped in my own bed
So drunk I can’t remember
He took it as yes
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
My 18th Birthday
Suffered and Survived
I Woke Up In The Tub
Second Night of College
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Ashly’s story
Date Rape
So Many Years to Remember
Marital Rape
Raped in the Air Force
גבר אלים וחולני
Repressed Memory
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
I Was Only 7
Molested by Cousin
Childhood Friends
I was 17 and survived
I trusted him
Ignoring only gets so far
Six Years Old
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Ashly’s story
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
He Was My Boss
הטרידו אותי
NYD
No Wasn’t Good Enough
two years ago
I can say it now
I Own My Story
In Five Years
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Sexually assaulted at 4
Too naïve
I Feel So Betrayed
Now It’s Too Late
My Two Rapes
My younger brother
My Nightmare
Public Rape
Everyone loves him
Army
My “Father”
I Was 19
rape
Stranger
Mental Breakdown
Need help
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Life of Trauma
Raped At 16, 29, 31
Sexual Abuse
My Interview
3 Generations
Neighbor
My Story
3 years on
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Second Date
Obsessed Abusive Ex
ONLY the Beginning
Date Rape
Closure
הסיפור שלי…
Raped By Family
Travelling
He Was My Best Friend
Still Going
Did I ask for this?
Mi Historia
A Message from the Director
Is It Really Rape?
Permanently Scarred
“Me too” On Facebook
My Two Days of Hell
STRONG
Confused by Rape
אוףףףף
My Younger Sister
Life After Death
Holding My Feelings In
Raped because of who I loved
Once Again
Domestic Rape
My Last Party
Say Something
40 years
Out of Control
Never the Same
Was almost raped and no one did...
No one cared until I made them
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
My story
The children are the priority here
I wish I could change the past
My boyfriend
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
What’s Done Is Done
My experience as an intern in highschool
Seeing My Rapist Everday
It Was the Second
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Multiple Times
Sexual Abuse
Grandpa
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
That Night
We were drunk
Raped as a Baby
Rape
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
Naive
My survival story
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Drugged
My best friend
A Story
Despedida
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Story
Childhood Rape
Too drunk to respond
Teenaged Victims
Naive and Vulnerable
Warrior
After I Was Raped
Being Done
Ms.
Feels like i am drowning
Raped By a Female
Continue to Survive
I was raped
Emotional Abuse
Halloween 2014
עדיין מציק
Prisoner of Love
Too much trauma
This Is Me, my fight song
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
Okay, Not Okay
Permanently Scarred
I Never Give Up

