#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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ללינור היקרה
I Lost My Virginity
You were supposed to be my friend
My principal mom raped me
Raped by Him
It was not my fault
Trying to Survive
Ms.
Drugged and Gang Raped
Shattered
עדיין מציק
Thank You
My Fight
Still Unable to Tell People
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
NYD
Heart broken
A Lifetime of pain
My Safe Place
Still Haunts
Finally Arrested
Pastor’s Son
Repressed Memories
My step dad raped me
Raped By My Father
3 Times is Not Charming
Case Closed
That Night
Freshman on Campus
I’m Only Stronger
Freshman Year
Un-Silenced
School Rape
Sexually abused by a 11/12 girl
Family Ties
Spoke out and was blamed
Myself
10 Years!
Finally facing it
The pain that was never mine to...
Raped in the Air Force
Rape
Thank you for speaking out…
Ketamine Rape
Kept From Us
My Friend
Drunk and taken advantage of
BFF’s Husband
By my friend
Metoo
Pregnancy
Six months in the making..
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Married to my Rapist
He said he’d never do it again
Tormented
Never Be the Same Again
Raped by stranger x2
Date rape
De Los 6 a Los 12
No One Is Who They Appear To...
Rape Survivor
Still Unable to Tell People
Believe Her
Denial
Anal Rape
Mi Esposa
The Cliche
I Am A Survivor
Army
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped
I’m finally letting my hurt out
Two Friends and Two Boys
Living Nightmare
Never a Victim; Only Myself
Ashamed of myself
Someone Left To Trust?
13 & Alone
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Help !
My 18th Birthday
Off My Shoulders
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
I Am Finally FREE
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
What Happened?
So drunk I can’t remember
Do NOT Trust Strangers
All Just Too Much
The Life I Live
Raped By a Family Member
Narcissistic Ex
Workplace Sexual Harassment
A Different MeToo
…
Someday Soon
Unspoken
He knew what he was doing
Despedida
Molested by my brother as a child
היי
3 years on
I Was 19
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
I Barely Knew Them
My rape story
I Was Just a Dancer
Story of My Life
My abuse story victim to survivor
Middle School
Ended in Rape
It was just a friend date
The Night That Changed My Life
Nightmare
היי לינור
Unethical or illegal?
Freshman Year
Seeing My Rapist Everday
The Same Effect
Just Words
Never Again
my story
University Bar
Someone You Know
Assault In the Family
Thank you for speaking out…
Liberating Moment
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Just Another Night
My Story
A Long Healing Process
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
I know when I see a rapist...
עדיין מציק
Shitty nights
So Now What?
I met evil at a young age
I Never Thought
Your First
My First Memory
Relationship does not equal consent
Wide awake
I wish she wouldve helped me
Rape
Mistaken Identity
Healing
This could never happen to me
We Stand Together
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Devil In Disguise
Six Years of Denial
Still Think It Was My Fault
Becoming a Warrior
My sexual assault will not define me
Piano Teacher
My Mother Was Raped
No Comfort
Seis Años
Bringing the Stories to Light
April 8th, 2016
Second Night of College
My Story
Is this normal?
My Brother
Friend of mines set me up
My story growing up with a secret
En Enero de 2010
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Rape
I Pretend Like I Don’t Remember…But I...
School Rape
dad and mom rape
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
I was born for this
I Was Only 7
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
לא יוצאים מזה…
Just Friends
Breaking the silence
Male dancer
i was a child.
Mi Esposa
Prey
Sexual Abuse
35 Years Ago
Help
Isn’t Any Proof
Remember as a victim you have done...
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Chiropractor
A Day My Life Changed Forever
My First Boyfriend
My Boyfriend Raped Me
גבר אלים וחולני
Deep Scars
Twice
Bad Morning
Young and Unaware
Life Changer
I blamed myself for so long
Summer 2019
Scar
Stranger Rape
It never seems like Rape to me
The First Time
I Feel So Betrayed
Abusive Uncle
Attempted Rape
Since Age 6?
לפני 14 שנים
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
My Religious Teacher
I Shouldn’t Have To…
Blamed myself …
Rock It!



