#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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Shelter My Soul
Salted Wound
Workplace Sexual Harassment
lucky
I didn’t say no
I thought you loved me
Married to my Rapist
Molested by Cousin
To my best friend who raped me
Not Sure It Happened
Scared and Confused
I Trusted Him
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Raped in my own bed
Nothing important…
I Shouldn’t Have To…
My step dad raped me
I was raped and I didnt know...
Simply My Story
אוףףףף
I guess it was rape
Young and Unaware
My Story
Not all friends are true
My Journey Back to Life
Grandpa
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Because of You
I should have never meet my biological...
Rape
Ready to Share
Weak
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
Six Years of Denial
Our Corrupted Country
What If I Make You?
So Now What?
I did Not need to know this
School Rape
A Loss to Mankind
It Was Too Late
Six months in the making..
Today, I Let It All Go
Fraternity Men
Dear Coward
What Was I Thinking?
Confusion
And It Continues
I Need to Tell Someone
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Pastor’s Son
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Constant fear
My Dad
I was born for this
David and Goliath
Army
How do you give tragedy a title?
A Victim No Longer
Younger me
Suffered and Survived
Is It Really Rape?
I Thought I was Safe
My Step Brother Raped Me
Rape
Justice Didn’t Help Me
Metoo
My case is different from yours
לפני 14 שנים
I Was Only 7
I Was a Fool for Him
Rape
Nashville Sweetheart
Need help
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
It’s A Long Story
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Worst Day Ever
I want to Call it what it...
I’m getting Married tomorrow
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Just Another Night
He Loved Me
No one owns your story but you
Friends??
Choose healing over silence
After I Was Raped
Always the Girls Fault
I Recorded my Rapist
Michelle Johnston
She was 5 years old
3 incidents
40 years
my story
I Was Only 14
Infatuation
Tel Aviv
It was never…..That
Raped and Molested
In Denial of My Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
Around 9 PM
Rape
I was raped by my cousin
random rape
So Now What?
Can Anyone Help?
Too Trusting
People You Do Not Know
Remember as a victim you have done...
Victim No More
So Called Friends
Multiple Times
ללינור היקרה
My Story
My Snowball Effect
הטרידו אותי
Raped by ex boyfriend
Blaming Myself
It Was the Second
Since Age 6?
What’s Done Is Done
Please Rape Me
Victim Impact Statement
Blackout
My survival story
He ruined my life
I Didn’t See It In Time
My Life
Not friends
Multiple Times
Rape
Speaking Up for Women
His Charming Ways
God Saved Me
To this day I still feel sick…
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Your First
My Sister and I were Abused
Summer 2019
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Freshman on Campus
06.05.2006
A Lifetime
In Denial of My Rape
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Just Words
Drugged
In NYC
Mi Historia
Too naïve
Someone so close to me
7 years and it still controls me
I don’t know what to do
Life Purpose
Had Her Back
My story growing up with a secret
Piece
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Mental Breakdown
University Bar
היי
I Remember Being Happy
dad and mom rape
It Was My Fault
NYC Vacation
לא יוצאים מזה…
House help and cousin
My Family My Love
Assault
Do you believe me?
Does he know?
My Life
LOST
We Were Kids
Speak Up
Freshman Year
Revelations
I Thought I was Safe
My story
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Journal of a Wayward Child
הסיפור שלי…
blackmailed
Why Me?
A Survivor, Not a Victim
Help…
My boyfriend
In Korea
Erase and Rewind
Piece
Rape By My Husband
Military Man
Feeling Lost
Trapped
No
It Was Too Late
Woke up violated and confused.
I Was Only 7
Ended in Rape
23 year old virgin
Rape
He Took My Virginity
A respectable collegue
Rape
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Raped by my boyfriend
A Letter to My Rapist
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Drug raped
Drunken rape
I Never Give Up

Raped in the Air Force
He used me. He left me.
The Night That Changed My World
כמוני כמוך
Husband raped? Well people don’t call it...
Mrs
Mi Esposa
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Long way back
Identity?
I know when I see a rapist...
The Statistics that Changed Me
It never stops changing you and thats...
Ex-Boyfriend
Over 40 years Ago
Why was it my fault?
Still Hurting
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
Despedida
College Professor
גבר אלים וחולני
Just Another Night
Ex Boyfriend
Gang Rape
Unethical or illegal?
With Love
11 Years to Justice
Two Times
Sexual Abuse
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Blaming Myself
My story
Multiple Times
A Family Affair
LOST
Hated Myself
Murky Memories
At the Movie’s
J’avais 13 ans
The Night It All Changed
Raped by stranger x2
Healing and releasing painful memories
My brother let him in
Molested at 3
Sexual Abuse
Quarterly Review
My Daughter’s Rape
Army
Convincing Myself
Never Lose Hope
Rude awakening
75 Percent Humidity
Raped by a so called friend
A familiar fight
Child Rape
I’m Finally Moving On
Scar
Cavemen
It Started with my Brother
De Los 6 a Los 12
Ms.
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Myself
Male dancer
Fenced In
I’m Not Easy
75 Percent Humidity
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
Spousal Rape
When Will This Nightmare End
It Wasn’t Love
Dear My Rapist
עדיין מציק
Multiple Rapes
Sexual assault/ sex trafficking
I Am Not Brave
Sex doll
Incest
Military Sexual Trauma
Don’t Give Up


