#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. Womenโs 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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How Many Times?
Childhood Abuse
My Younger Sister
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
My story growing up with a secret
He ruined my life
Growing Past Just Surviving
Sexual Assault
Rape
James
Blamed myself โฆ
Rape
I’m Confused
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
was i raped?
I Shouldnโt Have Drank
Rape
Growing Past Just Surviving
More Witness than I Care to Live...
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Moving On
He used me. He left me.
Prom Night
Ignored For a Lifetime
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
One in Four
College Rape
When I Was 8
I called him my friend
A familiar fight
What Is Success?
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
A Night To Remember
How Could It Have Happened
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Holding My Feelings In
Raped by Him
An Abnormal Reaction
Molestation
Abuse and Rape
Left Me In Pieces
Thank you for speaking out…
The First Man In My Life
Piece
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
I Am a Survivor…
Tormented
More Than Once
ืืืื ื ืืืื
Virgin Rape
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
4th grade
So Now What?
So drunk I can’t remember
Messed Up Childhood
Still Canโt Believe It
What Happened?
Raped By 6 Policemen
Raped in the Air Force
I’m Disgusted
I am not a rape victim
Forever Silent
He turned me into a damn monster
Not Sure It Happened
Not like the rape you always hear...
Raped By a Friend
Be Careful Who You Trust
Holding It In
I Too Was Raped
I’m Only Stronger
Didn’t Know Until Later
Manipulation
Shelter My Soul
Call Me Anything But That
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Proud
They asked if I was lying
Different face, but the same monster
3 balls, striking
Incapacitated Still
Football Player
lucky
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Dirty Whore
How it makes me feel 5 years...
Stuck
Need help
When will it be enough?
ืืืจืืืื ืืื ืงืฉื ืืืื
It never goes away
Girls Without Parents
I Am Brave
Keeping Faith
Survivor
Only I get to make choices for...
Jโavais 13 ans
Metoo
It never stopped
April 8th, 2016
My Fight
Just Hanging Out
Spoke out and was blamed
I was raped
A Part of My Twenties
Your First
East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer – Joseph...
Best Friends Brother
Man Raped By Man
My Story
Can Anyone Help?
De Los 6 a Los 12
I Am Not Brave
HS Reunion
I was sold to a pedophile
I Didnโt Know I Was Raped
I was raped
Unethical or illegal?
Remember November
Erased From Memory
Sex doll
First Time Sharing
Life of Trauma
I Was Raped
Mi Esposa
Myself
I’m Doing You a Favor
17
Rape
Trusted Friend
Just Words
Chiropractor/Massage Therapist
ืื ืืืฆืืื ืืื…
Rape
“Me too” On Facebook
I Choose Hope

Childhood of assault
Date Rape
Ms.
my brother in law
Longest Prayers of My Life
Seis Aรฑos
Molested
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Still Unable to Tell People
Ready to Share
I Am a Survivor…
he made me loose hope in love…
There Is Hope For Us
Sexual Assault at 11
Miss
Hope after repeated rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
The Statistics that Changed Me
ืืืืจ, ืืืืื, ืื ืฆื
I Hate You
Date Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Why Me?
Just a Child
Twice
Raped and Numbed
23 year old virgin
I Was Manipulated
Molested
He bought me chips and sent me...
Rape
Childhood rape
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
Freshman Year
Army
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
you do what you gotta
Unspoken
Twice a pattern?
ืืืื ืืจ ืืืงืจื
A Child
Stranger Danger
I Thought I Knew Hi
My ex’s best friend
Rape??
Blaming Myself
Blamed Myself
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
I Feel So Betrayed
Sexual Assault at 11
ืืืจ ืืืื ืืืืื ื
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Drugged After Junior Prom
Male dancer
Broken Trust
Stranger Rape
Sexually assaulted at 4
Twenty Years of Hell
College Campus Rape
Hope for Healing
Am I Wrong?
Raped by a US Marine when I...
I Saved Myself
Growing Past Just Surviving
Unhealthy Relationship
The Devil You Know
Time Heals
ืืกืืคืืจ ืฉืื…
Because of You
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
When I Was 11…
Started With My Father
Child sex abuse
The Cliche
When I Was 7
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
3 years later i still wonder if...
Me, Myself & Monsters
All-time low
To protect and serve
Erase and Rewind
Out of Control
New Years Eve Party
ืืื ืืฉื ื ืขืืืืืช ืืงืืืืื
Hurt and Anger
Did I ask for this?
my story
Despedida
He had my pants down
Forgotten Memories Submerge
Babysitter Abuse
ืขืืืื ืืฆืืง
My Story
Being Raped
I Pretend Like I Don’t Remember…But I...
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Not Really Love
That’s not Me, it’s Her
My Story
Twice
Confused and Angry
A Literal Fight
Memories Are Back
Two Men Lifetimes Apart
Broke me
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
So Many Years to Remember
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
The First Time
Help!! What Can I Do?
ืืื
My Mother was raped and told me...
Rape
my rape
Rude awakening
Mi Historia
Snowball Effect
No
MesS Into A mesSage
I don’t Know, but I Know
Once Again
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
I Am A Survivor
Restoring Innocence
I Didn’t Know
Lesbian After Assaults
3 years on
A respectable collegue
A Lifetime
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Raped by school ‘friend’
Not A Trustworthy Man
Scars
I Thought He Cared
ืขืืืื ืืฆืืง
Nearly 50 years later
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Twenty Years of Hell
Lost In Time
Every Way Imaginable
Sexual Abuse
My First Boyfriend
Ya perdonรฉ pero nunca olvido
To my best friend who raped me
Teen-ager Trauma
Online dating
When will it be enough?
Childhood nightmares
My Nightmare
You Can’t Trust Anyone
ืืืจืืื ืืืชื
Your First
I Said No
My Only Brother
Raped by Brother
i was pulling my shorts up
My Own Party
Memories
Used
Together, We Are Brave

