#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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Who Is To Blame?
I Blame Myself
כמוני כמוך
The Devil You Know
It just happened
Rape
Breaking the Silence
I’m Not Sure
Freshman Year
LOST
I don’t Know, but I Know
Betrayal
The Most Vivid Distant Memories
College Rape
הטרידו אותי
Never Again
Sexual Assault
Think About It Everyday
Blaming Myself
A Letter to My Rapist
What Was I Thinking?
Spoke out and was blamed
Finding Words
So Many Times
Started At 12…
Michelle Johnston
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Stranger
The Statistics that Changed Me
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
And It Continues
My Fight
My boyfriend of 2 years
So Alone
My husband was molested as a child
Halting The Pain
Hard Time
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Rape
A Night I Can’t Remember
What Should I Do?
Find Your Strength
Why: A Poem About My Rape
My Multiple-Offender Rape
I Am Brave!
7 years and it still controls me
Myself
My Safe Place
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Being Raped
Once Again
Stolen innocence
He Was My Boyfriend
Roommates
Raped By a Family Member
Seis Años
Was it rape?
Was almost raped and no one did...
My Ongoing Journey
School Rape
Middle school sexual harassment
Please Rape Me
Raped
Today, I Let It All Go
Too temping, I guess
Multiple Times
Molested
‘I have a voice’
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Erased From Memory
Brave
I’m Doing You a Favor
The First Time
Bartender Lies
No
My Brothers Two Best Friends
Raped in the Air Force
Getting Away
He had my pants down
Proof, but no Witnesses
4th grade
Let Down
Rape
My Brother
I Hate You
Ms.
The Worst Feeling
Not My Friend
Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Revelations
It started with you.
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Rape??
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Him or Me
The times when rape culture has got...
Trying To Help
Restoring Innocence
He Was a Family Friend
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Day at the Lake
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
sexual assault
I Was Only 7
Summer 2019
i was pulling my shorts up
The Guy I Trusted
Your First
So Now What?
Together, We Are Brave

היי
rape
Parental Incest Is Rape
raped and isolated
Deja Vu
Date Rape
The Time I Was Raped
Still Unable to Tell People
My story growing up with a secret
Mistaken Identity
A respectable collegue
God Saved Me
Help
What now…?
It Started With Rape
They asked if I was lying
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Unsure
Kibbutz
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
Remember as a victim you have done...
Male dancer
Twice
She’s a survivor
My Younger Sister
Mi Esposa
When I Was 8 Years Old
Over 40 years Ago
Sex doll
Finding My Voice
My First Time
Black and Blue
Second Date
Drugged
But I Was Drunk
Just Violated
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Blamed Myself
True View
Was Told to Shut My God Damn...
לפני 14 שנים
גבר אלים וחולני
4 Years Ago
Rape !!
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
I Want to Live
En Enero de 2010
Ignored For a Lifetime
Disappointed
My case is different from yours
She Should Be Over It
Second Date
my story
He bought me chips and sent me...
Does the pain ever go away?
Alcohol
Lost Soul
Erase and Rewind
I was raped
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Student Exchange
My story
I Thought I was Safe
Sexual harassment
Feeling Alone
Holding It In
Summer of ’09
Was it Really Rape
Males can be victims too
I Was Stupid
No One Believes Me
I don’t know what to think
Raped by My Ex
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
I Was 3 Years Old
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
I don’t know if it counts
Emotional Abuse
Happy Survivor
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Too naïve
Did I ask for this?
My Nightmare
Breaking the Silence
