#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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Raped in the Air Force
He Lied
Why Me?
Multiple Times
I was assaulted twice at the same...
Date Rape
“Me too” On Facebook
Continue to Survive
Naive College Freshman
Rape by Boyfriend
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
A Self Destructive Life
Family
Date gone wrong
16 times
My Safe Place
Spring Break
Moving On
Sexually assaulted at 4
What sent me over the edge
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Raped At 15
The First Time
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
Acceptance
My Mother Was Raped
Not Really Family
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
A Year After
Not Guilty
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
ללינור היקרה
The Worst Feeling
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Dear Coward
We All Have a Voice
Multiple Times
raped by my own brother
Simply My Story
My boyfriend
Why was it my fault?
Every Way Imaginable
Literal Hell
He over stepped the mark
Mi Esposa
I Trusted Him…
I don’t know what happened
A Voice to be Heard
Multiple Times
An Embarrassing Situation
The thief
3 Times is Not Charming
I Was Only 14
I Saved Myself
dad and mom rape
Afraid of Being Judged
Rape
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Raped in my own bed
Still Affected
A Poem
An older cousin
You had no rights
הסיפור שלי…
35 Years Ago
Catfished
I can say it now
7 years and it still controls me
Friend of mines set me up
Don’t Want to Anymore
When I Was 7
I Was 9
Sex doll
Are you sure?
Aftermath
23 year old virgin
Just Words
The Night My Life Changed
Myself
“It’s not your fault.”
Believe Her
I don’t Know, but I Know
Unlucky
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Knowledge is Power
I was attacked at 19 years old
Friends?
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Raped After School
Night of Psychedelic Horror
My Safe Place
I was very dumb.
Family members ex husband
גבר אלים וחולני
Realization of Rape
Why Me Over and Over?
I am More than a Victim
A respectable collegue
It was never…..That
Afraid
Date Rape
היי
Mi Historia
Raped At 16, 29, 31
Not Really Love
My story growing up with a secret
Unknown
Remember as a victim you have done...
Was It My Fault?
עדיין מציק
I Don’t Even Know
Spoke out and was blamed
Halloween 2014
Not A Trustworthy Man
Ashamed
Army
Why I’m sorry
I Was Dating Him
Coercion is never consent
Scar
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Survivor of Rape
My Story
De Los 6 a Los 12
Let Down
What Happened?
3rd Grade Terror
Broken Girl
Grooming
Thick Mud
Summer 2019
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
J’avais 13 ans
Finally Healing
Child sexual abuse
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
Deep Scars
Rape
From Heaven to Hell
My Daughter’s Rape
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
Endless Shame
Runaway Model
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Rape
Tree House
My family friend
Manhandling to Rape
Black Out
Molested By My Step Brother
It never stops changing you and thats...
LOST
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Multiple Times
Prey
People You Do Not Know
Broken Trust
Kibbutz
Cavemen
The Party I Will Never Forget
The Statistics that Changed Me
I Was Only 7
Online dating
Unethical or illegal?
Broken Trust
42 Years Old
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
My Two Days of Hell
Drugged and Raped
Murky Memories
In NYC
I was carrying his daughter.
7th Grade Assault
I know when I see a rapist...
Raped By a Friend
Date Rape
Man Raped By Man
Do NOT Trust Strangers
MY Inspirational Story
Former partner would berate me
Only I get to make choices for...
Bringing the Stories to Light
So drunk I can’t remember
Mistaken Identity
The secret
Raped by a work colleague
Metoo
First Time Sharing
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Raped in my own bed
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Sexual Assault
En Enero de 2010
Erase and Rewind
Locked Up
Mental Breakdown
Confused by Rape
Rubbing my scars
My First Time
Not friends
I Too Was Raped
Seis Años
I called him my friend
Who Is To Blame?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Because of You
My Story
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
16 times
Too naïve
כמוני כמוך
Freshman Year
Marital Rape
His Charming Ways
A Message from the Director
