#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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Sexual Abuse
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I still see him on campus
Still Going
Realization of Rape
Hateful
Rape and Not Believed
Childhood End
Stranger Danger
Stronger Than You Think
I Was Manipulated
A familiar fight
It wasn’t my fault
The First Time
3 Different Times
Brock and Will
Shattered
I Am Brave!
I am not a rape victim
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Middle school sexual harassment
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Drugged raped and failed by justice
לפני 14 שנים
Gang Rape
ללינור היקרה
Another Victim
Stormy Night
College Campus Rape
My first love
Afraid of Being Judged
Still Affected
En Enero de 2010
Rape by Boyfriend
His Masterpiece
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Story Subject: * I thought he was...
My stepfather
My Story, My Nightmare
Warrior
I Trusted Him
Mrs
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Off My Shoulders
Dream / Recall
Scar
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Love of My Life?
Broken Trust
ptsd
My Sister and I were Abused
First Friend at University
I was assaulted twice at the same...
The pain that was never mine to...
A Story
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Broken down car
High School Orientation
Catfished
The Worst Feeling
Rape Shaming
He Stole Something From Me
Someone Left To Trust?
My experience as an intern in highschool
At the Movie’s
Sex doll
Today is my time to cry
We All Have a Voice
It never seems like Rape to me
They Blamed it on the Tequila
It Kills Me
J’avais 13 ans
Empty
Thank you for speaking out…
Sexually abused by my step brothers
We met at the bar
Freeing myself of demons
3rd Grade Terror
Déja-vu
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Victim of Abuse
Scammer
Fear
לא יוצאים מזה…
First Date
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Rock It!

BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Rape
I Was Only 7
Party Time
It still doesn’t feel real…
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Be Aware
Working Through It
Date Rape
Still Think It Was My Fault
הטרידו אותי
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
The abuser
My Story
Be Aware
A respectable collegue
The Statistics that Changed Me
Freshman on Campus
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Rape
Moving on Alone from Rape
Rape survivor
Time Heals
Trauma
Rape Victim
Rape & Sexual Assault
Raped at 13
J’avais 13 ans
Summer 2019
Shelter My Soul
Restoring Innocence
גבר אלים וחולני
Molestation
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
First “Real” Boyfriend
College Rape
Date Rape
Molested
A Week Before 18th Birthday
My principal mom raped me
New Years Eve
Confused
Anal Rape
Why Me Over and Over?
A Self Destructive Life
7 years and it still controls me
היי
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
A Survivor, Not a Victim
My best friend raped me
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Online dating
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
It Was My Fault
Was it rape?
I was 17 and survived
My sisters boyfriend abused me
Mi Esposa
Pastor’s Son
Stolen Innocence
My First Memories….
My husband was molested as a child
Tinder Rape
Happy Birthday
My Relationship With Dad
My Daughter
Returning to Mexico
Growing Past Just Surviving
I still see him on campus
So drunk I can’t remember
@ years of rape and being drugged
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Friend of mines set me up
Family
I Was 20
Black and Blue
my story
כמוני כמוך
Despedida
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Living With Us
I Trusted Him
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Stuck
Sexual Assault
Spoke out and was blamed
Freshman Year
I wanted to get high
My Mother’s Albatross
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Drugged
Still Haunted By It
De Los 6 a Los 12
Male dancer
My Past
Sexual Assualt Overseas
Your First
Sexual Assault
My First Time
My survival story
I Said No
My Army Fiance
This Is My Story
Worst Day Ever
I was used. I got left. I...
Unethical or illegal?
40 years
I don’t know if I was raped
Just Another Night
My Life
He took it as yes
Cruel Kids
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
Molested by my biological father
Young and Unaware
Raped by Brother
I guess it was rape
Drunken Rape
My Snowball Effect
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Don’t Want to Anymore
Mi Historia
High School Rape
Alcohol
It Was My Fault
Raped By a Female
I am a Survivor
Digging my own grave
Can I Call It Rape?
He was jealous of my new friend
I still don’t know what happened
My Horrific Nightmare
Too naïve
I know when I see a rapist...
Too Young and Unsure
היי
Was It Rape?
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
Breaking the Silence

Just Violated
Am I Wrong?
His Charming Ways
Struggling to Survive
What Is Success?
My Brother’s Best Friend
Unbelievable
Help
Seis Años
Date rape
Childhood of assault
I Was Only 14
עדיין מציק
No Justice
I don’t know if it counts
Black Girl
It Started With Rape
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I don’t Know, but I Know
Child Rape
Another poem about a not so perfect...
“raped” by my long time bf
Drugged
Sexual assault/ sex trafficking
Raped by my cousin
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Together, We Are Brave
