#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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Believe Her
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Raped by Brother
Forced, De-flowered
What If I Make You?
First boyfriend raped me when i was...
Spoke out and got fired
Hated Myself
Through the Window
Rape
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Hundreds of Times
I Never Thought
Step Dad
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Memories Are Back
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Multiple Rapes
I was just 9.
Set Up
A Loss to Mankind
I was raped and didn’t know
I Am Still Standing
Raped By My Biological Father
Rape & Sexual Assault
Male dancer
Betrayed By a Loved One
f*ck you
Just Playing
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Twice is too much
When I Was 7
Not Okay
Let’s Fight Back With Love
One Bad Decision
Kidnapped
This is MY story
Rape
I Need to Tell Someone
My story!
University Bar
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
3rd Grade Terror
I still see him on campus
#IStandWithHer
Afraid of Being Judged
Date Rape
My Uncle
Summer 2019
Some Friend
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Breaking the Trust
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Date Rape
Junior Prom
Bringing the Stories to Light
Speaking Out
A Lifetime
So drunk I can’t remember
De Los 6 a Los 12
Rape at 15
My Story of Rape
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Date Rape
Once? Twice? Five Times?
It was not my fault
Why I Am The Way I Am
Seis Años
An Acquaintance
Forgiving The Rapist
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Why Me?
Perfect on Paper
Date Rape
You Were My Brother’s Best Friend
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Six months in the making..
What Is Happening
Finally facing it
Twice
Childhood rape
Finding Me
היי
Obsessed Abusive Ex
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Bleeding Through My Tears
הטרידו אותי
כמוני כמוך
Wrong Choice
Myself
Afraid of Being Judged
עדיין מציק
It’s Been 10 Years
J’avais 13 ans
He was right
Help!! What Can I Do?
Rape
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Anxiety
Drugged
My Snowball Effect
A sociopath in disguise
My husband was molested as a child
Respect
I was 13
Betrayed By My Husband
Rape
My boyfriend of 2 years
Lessons I’m Learning Late in Life
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Daycare Teacher
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Don’t Give Up

לפני 14 שנים
It was not my fault
I Am Not Brave
Raped by my Stepfather
Life of Trauma
Choose healing over silence
Ended in Rape
Sex doll
Raped by my step father
I Am A Survivor
Ms.
Too naïve
A Life of Pain
Unwanted Flashbacks
Broken Trust
Let Down
Forgiving My Rapist
I wish I would have been smarter
Unbelievable
I thought he was a friend
Who Is To Blame?
My step dad raped me
I Said No
Raped in the Air Force
Help
you do what you gotta
My abuse story victim to survivor
16 times
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Be Careful Who You Trust
He Stole Something From Me
Unknown
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Hidden Emotions
He’s Still Out There
Despedida
Tormented
I Was 19
No Wasn’t Good Enough
MST
Four years later
Feeling Alone
Its Got To STOP!
Raped Husband
I “needed” to do this!
לפני 14 שנים
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
was i raped?
Drunken Rape
The Devil You Know
The Aftermath
Date rape
Many Years Ago
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Raped in my Hostel
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
What’s Done Is Done
Abuse Continued
Weak
Feeling weak
I forgot, but then I remembered
Denial
We had sex before
So Many Years to Remember
“Trust me, take a chance”
Victim Shaming
Motel 6 Nightmare
He Loved Me
My stepfather
My Rape
A sociopath in disguise
Surpris à la Maison
Salted Wound
Disappointed
Date Rape
Self Worth
4 short stories of sexual aggresion
Domestic rape
En Enero de 2010
Army
Messed Up
School Rape
Scared Like Crazy
Weak
Sex doll
גבר אלים וחולני
Tree House
My 18th Birthday
Sexual Abuse
Hateful
Seis Años
Repressed Memory
I still don’t know
I was 5.
Lotus
Mi Esposa
Trapped
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Thank you for being LOUD!
Feeling Alone
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Under Age drinking
Supposed To Be There
He was my best friend
Molested While Sleeping
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
And It Continues
In NYC
Rape
Unethical or illegal?
I don’t know what to do
East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer – Joseph...
I Still Blame Myself
Couch Surfing
Two Times
Becoming a Warrior
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
I don’t know if I was raped
Survivor
My story growing up with a secret
I Saved Myself
Freshman on Campus
Still Terrified
The same guy
Mi Esposa
Growing Past Just Surviving
School Bathroom
I Am Finally FREE
Rude awakening
Sexual abuse by step father
Scars
Too naïve
Liar, Liar
Those 8 hours
Does the pain ever go away?
Alcohol
I did Not need to know this
Raped by a work colleague
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
I regret not telling
Shelter My Soul
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT WORK
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
Raped After Work
I Was Only 7
The Statistics that Changed Me
I should have never meet my biological...
Just Words
April 8th, 2016
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Blamed Myself
Just Playing
I’m Confused
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I want to be better
Locked Up
Erase and Rewind
My Story
Continue to Survive
My Story
Kibbutz
Violent Rape
The pain that was never mine to...
Scar
Birthday Rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Okay, Not Okay
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Rape
A respectable collegue
Healing takes time
Violent Rape
I Said No
The thief
My Religious Teacher
Finally telling my story.
Survivor

