#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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Young and Unaware
you do what you gotta
Rape
Raped by my boyfriend
my story
My Daughter’s Rape
Is There Still Hope
I Trusted Him
Men ruined my life
The Life I Live
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Incest & Date Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I didn’t know
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Confused
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
This Is My Story
I should have never meet my biological...
Prom Night
Molested by my biological father
Too naïve
To serve and protect, but who will...
ללינור היקרה
Rape is Real
Catfished
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Fear
Family members ex husband
I’m tired of hiding what you did
It’s A Long Story
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Deep Scars
“You were lucky”
Who Is To Blame?
Rape
His Charming Ways
I don’t know what to do
It’s Been Eight Years
A Year After
Brother in Law
Effort To Survive
ITS BEEN 18 YEARS
I Choose Hope

Finding Words
My Brother’s Best Friend
Rape
Raped in my Hostel
Surviving, Kinda
Childhood rape
So drunk I can’t remember
What Was I Thinking?
Lost Soul
My Husband Set Me Up!
Molestation
Wide awake
I was a child
Nirbhaya “ fearless”: Justice for the Brutal...
I don’t know what happened
Raped by Him
Second Night of College
I wanted to get high
My Own Brother
7th Grade Assault
Erase and Rewind
Myself
Last Party
My story growing up with a secret
Victim of Abuse
Bringing the Stories to Light
my story
The First Time
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Rape Survivor
7th Grade Assault
I Saved Myself
I Thought It Was Normal
It was someone I knew and I...
Afraid of the Truth
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Drugged
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Unethical or illegal?
Marital Rape and the abuser in my...
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
Rape
Grandpa Molested me
היי לינור
23 year old virgin
Rape is Real
My Story
Glitter Girl, Gone.
It never goes away
Don’t Want to Anymore
How can we make it stop?
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
Mi Historia
Breaking the Trust
Sleepraping
Married to my Rapist
My Healing Journey
Does “No” mean nothing?
Rape
Just Words
I Am Still Standing
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
I am 1 in 4
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
“No” is Universal
Still Can’t Believe It
His life ended tragically, but my pain...
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
I’m Only Stronger
Sexual Abuse
Confused and Angry
Ex
Life Was Ruined
Life of Trauma
Army
A School Trip
Doctor Nightmares
At Least He Didn’t Rape You
Call Me Anything But That
Rape
My Story
Off My Shoulders
It Was the Second
I Am Not Brave
Step Daddy
First Friend at University
לא יוצאים מזה…
Lasting Effects
University Bar
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Young and Unaware
I Remember Being Happy
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A letter to my rapist
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Family Rape
Close of a Brother
Rape & Sexual Assault
Was I Raped?
My Story
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Male dancer
You Must Acknowledge
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
House help and cousin
Never Even Knew
raped and isolated
Six Years Old
Different face, but the same monster
Moving on Alone from Rape
Scar
He Was My Boss
silent rape
Naive girl
NYC Vacation
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Taken Advantage
Who I Once Called My Father
Raped at 17
Now I Understand My Husband
De Los 6 a Los 12
Despedida
Be Strong
Who is Responsible?
My Own Brother
What’s Done Is Done
Thank You
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Mi Esposa
I thought he liked me
Repressed Memory
Sex doll
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Repressed Memory
I didn’t know
I’m the Slut. I Must’ve Wanted It.
The times when rape culture has got...
Sexual Assault
Every Way Imaginable
Living With Us
I didn’t know what to do
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Touched
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
More Than Once
East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer – Joseph...
A respectable collegue
My Supervising Doctor
J’avais 13 ans
היי
Ms.
In the Hospital
A Fighter? Or The Perfect Mask?
Daycare friend
The Statistics that Changed Me
My Husband Was My Attacker
It never seems like Rape to me
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Sexual harassment
Piano Teacher
College Campus Rape
innocent
More Than Once
An Embarrassing Situation
My 19 year old cousin
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Survivor

En Enero de 2010
It Started With Rape
Innocence Taken
Men ruined my life
Isn’t Any Proof
#IStandWithHer
High School
Rape
Why
They Blamed it on the Tequila
My Innocence Was Taken Away
School Prom
I was 17 and survived
Too Many Times
So Alone
Childhood of assault
עדיין מציק
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Prom Night
Together, We Are Brave
