#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/our German “Weinstein” Case
Travelling
Feeling Alone
A respectable collegue
Brave
Myself
My Friend’s House
Please Allow Me To Be Heard
Is this normal?
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
I’m Finally Moving On
Remember as a victim you have done...
3 incidents
Just Another Night
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Why
I wanted to get high
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Ms.
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Rape, Sexual Abuse
ללינור היקרה
People You Do Not Know
Rape By My Husband
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I thought we were friends
Older
#IStandWithHer
Devil In Disguise
Rape By Unknown
Feels like i am drowning
“You’re both minors”
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Lying Child Molester
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
My First Two Times
Supporting Sisters
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
Summer 2019
Molested By My Step Brother
Started As a Child
Abused By My Father
I still don’t know
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I know when I see a rapist...
I will not stay silent
Too drunk to remember
A Survivor, Not a Victim
I Didn’t Know What Happened
Drunken Rape
Ritual Sexual Abuse
De Los 6 a Los 12
In The Concrete Jungle
Obsessed Abusive Ex
I “needed” to do this!
My little girl
Camp rape
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Despedida
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Intruded
Now I Understand My Husband
Flashbacks
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
I blamed myself for so long
What If I Make You?
sexual assault
We Stand Together
Help…
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
My rape story
Speaking It
Raped at the Air Force Academy
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Spoke out and was blamed
Forced, De-flowered
I am a different me
Once? Twice? Five Times?
New Year’s Eve Party
Wrong Choice
Date Rape
He was 15
Piece
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Blamed myself …
Running With Bare Feet
Gang Rape
Boy scout of america
Raped and Molested
Hundreds of Times
#MeToo, too
The Devil You Know
Male dancer
Prey
Politeness Serves No One
Rape & Sexual Assault
Literal Hell
Scared Like Crazy
College Professor
Over 40 years Ago
Date Rape
40 years
כמוני כמוך
Was I raped?
Help!! What Can I Do?
Confused by Rape
A Lifetime of pain
I Was Only 7
I Slept Next to Him
My Army Fiance
Working Through It
Ready to Share
3 Times is Not Charming
My step dad raped me
Unethical or illegal?
15
I didn’t even know what was happening
Raped At 15
So drunk I can’t remember
I Am a Survivor…
I was 4 yrs old
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Bad Decisions
School Bathroom
My best friend raped me
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
Another kid raped me
The Statistics that Changed Me
Memories
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
I Trusted Him
היי
Six months in the making..
Raped and Numbed
J’avais 13 ans
לא יוצאים מזה…
Forced to Have Sex with My Boyfriend
Parental Incest Is Rape
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
Abuse Continued
Constant fear
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
He said he loved me
Drugged
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Bad Morning
Childhood End
Restoring Innocence
Infatuation
Never Forget
Blamed Myself
It’s A Long Story
En Enero de 2010
I am a survivor
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
My Story
If your boyfriend does it is is...
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
הטרידו אותי
Raped by my step father
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Out of Control
אוףףףף
The Fight We Can All Win
I Hate You
First Frat Party
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
It Was the Second
The Chapter Before The End
My Younger Sister
Rape
Sleepraping
I am More than a Victim
Too naïve
19 years later and still thinking about...
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
Erase and Rewind
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Friends No Longer
Date rape
Read This Please
Denial
To my best friend who raped me
Last Party
My Snowball Effect
First Time
The Cliche
Men ruined my life
Date Rape
Rape
This is my story
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Childhood Abuse
Sharing #MeToo’s
Just Words
People You Do Not Know
Multiple Times
My story
why me
Why I Am The Way I Am
Rape & Sexual Assault
Bartender Lies
The Power of Victimization
My survival story
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Family Ties
I am a Rape Survivor
No
Nobody believed me
April 19th
Weak
Incest & Date Rape
No Justice
Why?
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Enough Is Enough
I Trusted Him
I Was Manipulated
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Am Not Brave
I am not a rape victim
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Male dancer
Friend?
Glad To Say I’m A Survivor
What happened to me?
The Stepmonster
Forest floor
When I Was 16
Summer of ’09
Seis Años
By my friend
Bad Morning
I was just 9.
Surviving sexual assault trauma
Never a Victim; Only Myself
Raped By a Female
Roommates
Rape !!
I am a survivor
Do you remember your first time?
College Student
He’s Still Out There
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Frozen
Catfished
Freshman on Campus
Being Raped
Is Healing Possible?
I guess it was rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Still Can’t Believe It
5
Army
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
The Devil You Know
My “Step-father”
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
23 year old virgin
Raped by Him
Was It Rape?
Family
A Stong Woman
Mi Esposa
A Big Man
I No Longer Want To Live
intruder
“raped” by my long time bf
It was never…..That
Stress
Red Flags
4 Years Ago
Taken Advantage
My Daughter
Sexual Assault
Metoo
Letter to…
An Abnormal Reaction
So Much Pain Its Overwhelming
Raped in the Air Force
Raped at 17
Black Girl
I am 1 in 4
Mine Was Different
My Journey
Why: A Poem About My Rape
my story
My story growing up with a secret
More Than Half of My Life Ago
I was raped
Party Time
Mi Historia
I’m Not Sure
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
I Never Give Up
