#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. Womenโs 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 dont know what to call it
Sleepraping
Friends??
Bad Decision
Scared Like Crazy
dad and mom rape
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
Story Subject: * I thought he was...
My story growing up with a secret
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Undertones Throughout My Life
It Was Too Late
Never a Victim; Only Myself
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
I am still running
My Story
A super long account of a day...
slutshamedchild
He over stepped the mark
Happy Hell-oween
My Army Fiance
I was assaulted twice at the same...
ืืื ืืื ืืจ
Rape Shaming
My babysitter
Roommates
First Time Sharing
Myself
He Was Saving Me From Me
A Memory That Came Back
Molested at 8
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
ืืืื ื ืืืื
Sex doll
I Am a Survivor…
Incest & Date Rape
How My Life Has Changed
A Victim No Longer
I Barely Knew Them
I was 17 and survived
37 Years Ago
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
What Should I Do?
Felt safe in my friend group
Blaming Myself
My Story
Was I assaulted?
He Was My Friend
My Coach My Rapist
Secret Sorrow
Enough Is Enough
Someday Soon
Prescription Drugs
Bringing the Stories to Light
Broken vase
Army
Who I Once Called My Father
Fenced In
Scar
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
13 and 16
Does the pain ever go away?
Forgotten Memories Submerge
Scared to close my eyes
3 Times is Not Charming
When Will This Nightmare End
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Just Wanted to Escape
Six months in the making..
Seis Aรฑos
I Was Prepared
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
@ years of rape and being drugged
Raped in the Air Force
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
I’m Only Stronger
Too naรฏve
Who Is To Blame?
Hospitalized
A Self Destructive Life
Not like the rape you always hear...
Help
The thief
Boyfriend Hell
Heart broken
I am a survivor
My best friends dad
Was It Rape
Bringing the Stories to Light
It Was My Mom
Start of grooming at 15
He Never Apologized
Abusรฉe par un voisin de mes grands...
School Prom
Jโavais 13 ans
Trapped In a Fantasy World
Rape
I Didnโt Know I Was Raped
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
With Love
From Friends to Nothing
Smoke Together
4 Years Ago
Serial Rapist
First Friend at University
Flashbacks
Keeping Faith
Sexual Assault
God Saved Me
Case Closed
i was sexually abused
Sexual Abuse
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Molestation
Stolen Innocence
ืืืจืืื ืืืชื
Justice Didn’t Help Me
He did it again and again
It Was the Second
Finally telling my story.
When I Was 7
Raped By My Father
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
I Thought I was Safe
Left Me In Pieces
I was raped for 3 years
Ya perdonรฉ pero nunca olvido
My biggest mistake
The Statistics that Changed Me
My Daughter
Despedida
I Am a Survivor…
My Story
A Story
my story
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
Spoke out and got fired
I Came Home
My Safe Place
My Daughter’s Rape
Stupid Coward
After 14 Years
ืขืืืื ืืฆืืง
April 8th, 2016
Why you should talk to your daughters...
My Life
lucky
All men are the same
The First Time
Males can be victims too
I Am A Survivor
De Los 6 a Los 12
I thought he was a friend
The girl that got up and kicked...
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
blackmailed
Does the pain ever go away?
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Mi Historia
Blaming Myself
Family rape
Trauma
ืืกืืคืืจ ืฉืื…
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
Unethical or illegal?
Black Out
A respectable collegue
ืืืจ ืืืื ืืืืื ื
ืื ืืืฆืืื ืืื…
I Was Raped By An Stranger
What sent me over the edge
Life Changed
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
An Acquaintance
why me
I was raped last summer
I’m so sorry
I’m Confused
Ex-Boyfriend
Unsure
Travel
My Innocence Was Taken Away
ืืื ืืฉื ื ืขืืืืืช ืืงืืืืื
Justice
You were supposed to be my friend
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Naive
Never Be the Same Again
To serve and protect, but who will...
Deja Vu
I Thought I Knew Hi
Politeness Serves No One
Cavemen
Lesbian After Assaults
Finally ready to tell my story
He Destroyed Me
It is not my fault
It was not my fault
I Don’t Even Know His Name
Help
It wasnโt my fault
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Over 40 years Ago
Lost Dignity
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Four Years Ago
My Life, My Achievement
3 Times is Not Charming
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Drugged
Say Something
Rape by Boyfriend
Longest Prayers of My Life
Molestation
Last Party
Lost Soul
Surviving, Kinda
ืืื
ืืืจืืืื ืืื ืงืฉื ืืืื
Me too.
So drunk I can’t remember
Rude awakening
Anal Rape
Mrs.
Too naรฏve
Darkness With Friends
Freshman Year
A Nightmare
He was a friend
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
My Story
Employer rape
I just realized this today.
Still Affected
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
How can we make it stop?
Kept From Us
Who Is To Blame?
His Masterpiece
The Loss of My Childhood
Repeat Offender
I Never understood
He Was My Dad
Just Words
I Felt So Helpless
Rape & Sexual Assault
Family Rape
The Mailman Raped Me
Male dancer
I Was Only 7
No Stranger
Military Man
I shouldโve known
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped By a Friend
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
Child sex abuse
Summer 2019
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped and Numbed
To the man who stole my independence
Didn’t Realize It
Raped at 14
My Father’s Funeral
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Dads boss daughter!!!!!!
It never stopped
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
Males can be victims too
Date Rape
Erase and Rewind
Date Rape
To My Rapist
Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
He was supposed to be a friend
Afraid of the Truth
My husband raped me when I took...
Effort To Survive
Ms.
My 21st Birthday
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Rape inside marriage is still rape…
Iโm letting go
When I Was 8 Years Old
Don’t Give Up

