#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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I forgot, but then I remembered
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Date rape
A Story
כמוני כמוך
So Now What?
The Loss of My Childhood
Sex doll
3x
Date Raped at 19
Molestation
Unknown
My survival story
Overcoming My Story of Rape
Twice a pattern?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
They thought it was fun
Middle school sexual harassment
His Masterpiece
Why Me Over and Over?
Innocence
Semper Fi
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Freshman Year
My Beloved Man
Camp rape
Sleep Over
Daycare
A Long Healing Process
Me and my Best Friend
My younger brother
House help and cousin
16 times
Is There Still Hope
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
There Is Hope For Us
Don’t Know
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
My Untold Story
Embrace It All
Mi Esposa
Rape Victim
Pedophile Neighbour
Too good to be true
Help
The pain that was never mine to...
My experience as an intern in highschool
Realization of Rape
My Husband Set Me Up!
Way Back in 1973
Male dancer
In Korea
1 in 5
We All Have a Voice
Abuse Continued
The Statistics that Changed Me
Deja Vu
In The Concrete Jungle
In Denial of My Rape
Paris Nightmare
הסיפור שלי…
I was 14
A Family Cycle
Multiple Assaults
Effort To Survive
Raped 14 times in 1 year
I Trusted Him
My stepfather raped me
I Was Only 7
Just Words
He Was My Dad
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
A Private College; A Private Rape
My 18th Birthday
Rape
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Gang rape
Army
Wrong Choice
The Day After My Little Brother’s Birthday
Unethical or illegal?
Why was it my fault?
Hateful
I Was Manipulated
My first boyfriend in the US
Welcome To Adulthood
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Can Anyone Help?
A respectable collegue
A Letter to My “Family”
Spoke out and was blamed
I Am Brave

I was raped last summer
Raped and Numbed
Football Player
Erase and Rewind
Males can be victims too
Sexual Assault
Torn
Raped in the Air Force
Does the pain ever go away?
Raped in my own bed
Did I ask for this?
All Just Too Much
40 years
ללינור היקרה
Too naïve
Ms.
Quarterly Review
We Need Peace Too
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
My Rape
Girls Without Parents
Losing My Innocence At Fifteen
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
I was raped…
Betrayed
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Holiday Rape
Was I Raped?
Summer 2019
Multiple Rapes
Blamed myself …
Sleepraping
Amusement Park
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
My story growing up with a secret
Six months in the making..
sexual assault
Healing takes time
Why
Every Way Imaginable
Kept From Us
What am I doing wrong
Losing My Virginity
The Statistics that Changed Me
God Saved Me
Raped by Brother
Its Got To STOP!
Six months in the making..
My Story
Sexual Assault
Rape
I Hate You
My Daughter and I Both
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
עדיין מציק
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Sexual Abuse
My Story
Nightmare
Child sexual abuse
I am still running
Hostage
גבר אלים וחולני
Happy Birthday
College Student
Co-worker
True View
my toxic relationship
Never Even Knew
When Will This Nightmare End
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Panic Attack
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
I Remember Being Happy
I Slept Next to Him
Knowledge is Power
De Los 6 a Los 12
Older
Start of grooming at 15
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
incest
Raped in my Hostel
5 Years On
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Date Rape?
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The Man Who Never Was
A night gone wrong
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Mi Historia
Woke up violated and confused.
My Life History
How Many Times?
Forever Changed
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
First Crush
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
He used me. He left me.
Don’t Walk By Yourself
Darkness With Friends
Perfect on Paper
Raped by a US Marine when I...
Afraid of Being Judged
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Never Even Knew
Myself
Rape
When I Was 8 Years Old
7 Sisters
Too drunk to respond
I Feel So Bad For Him…
Too Afraid To Tell
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
4th of July
What Should I Do?
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
The Night That Changed My Life
Weathering The Storm
3 Different Times
To this day I still feel sick…
What am I doing wrong
I Had No Voice
I am not a rape victim
Confused by Rape
לא יוצאים מזה…
My story
Finding My Voice
Too Young
My rapist sent me a friend request...
Since Age 6?
Denial
Someday Soon
3 Days After Arriving at College
Rape
Coercion is never consent
It’s Hard But It Gets Better
My Past
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Rape
My Story
A young mother
Rape
היי לינור
Raped Multiple Times
Thought He Was A Friend
A friend who is a rapist
Two Continents, Two Different Men!
Bartender Lies
He Was My Friend
“Me too” On Facebook
My Daughter’s Rape
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
I can say it now
The Story of a Boy
People You Do Not Know
היי
Date Raped
הטרידו אותי
Black Girl
Cousin Rape
Don’t Give Up


