#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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Ignored
My Story
What’s Done Is Done
He Was a Cop
16 Years Later
Not Real Rape
First Friend at University
An Abnormal Reaction
Rape
My story growing up with a secret
Just Words
After I Was Raped
Betrayed By a Loved One
Forced, De-flowered
This Is My Story
Overcoming My Story of Rape
My Mother’s Albatross
My 19 year old cousin
Is Healing Possible?
Sexual Abuse
End of Innocence
my story
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
Just a Child
Perfect on Paper
The Same Effect
Just Another Night
When I Was 7
I Thought I Could Trust Him
My Story
my brother in law
Sexual Assault in my own bed
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Remember November
Rape
Why Me Over and Over?
My Rape Story
Ex Best Friend
Erase and Rewind
How Could It Have Happened
Kibbutz
Smoke Together
Raped After School
Finally Arrested
Roofied
Stronger Every Day
All men are the same
ืืืจืืื ืืืชื
The Hole in My Heart
Mi Historia
Please Allow Me To Be Heard
Learning to Live With My Rape
Third time’s the charm
My Untold Story
My Year in Hell
I Just Started High School
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
I didn’t break up with him back...
Raped by Him
ืืืจืืืื ืืื ืงืฉื ืืืื
My 21st Birthday
Why was it my fault?
Confused
Male dancer
It Kills Me
My story
Trauma
I Trusted Him
More Than a Survivor
SA in school
Not like the rape you always hear...
Rape
Six months in the making..
I Was Only 7
The Setup
He was family
Ignoring only gets so far
f*ck you
I am a Rape Survivor
Rape
Was it Really Rape
Being Done
I regret not telling
Raped and Molested
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
I know when I see a rapist...
Raped at the Air Force Academy
My Younger Sister
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Date Rape
Online dating
Stranger Danger, Yeah Right.
Rape
Drugged
Finally ready to tell my story
Rape at 15
My Story
Still Going
College Student
I was 11
No Means No
The same guy
Rape
Shattered
Rape, Sexual Abuse
I don’t know what happened
Hateful
It Was Too Late
Salted Wound
Raped
He used me. He left me.
A Story
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Raped by jail guard
He Stole Something From Me
Myself
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Military Man
The Cliche
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
I was raped by my cousin
ืืืืจ, ืืืืื, ืื ืฆื
Don’t Want to Anymore
Naive girl
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I thought he liked me
ืืืจ ืืืื ืืืืื ื
Left Me In Pieces
Confused
Family Ties
Twice
โItโs not your fault.โ
Online dating
Was Once a Best Friend
The Mailman Raped Me
Holding My Feelings In
I Am A Survivor
The Day I Was Raped
He Was Saving Me From Me
I Never Give Up

Speaking Up
Summer 2019
MST
Liar, Liar
Pretty Girls
Amusement Park
Creepy Grand Uncle
Freshman on Campus
The Boys Club Continues
Politeness Serves No One
This Is Me, my fight song
Raped at the Air Force Academy
I Barely Knew Them
Childhood
Hostage
Faded Memories
My Story
Drugged
Miss
Lesbian After Assaults
Army
Seis Aรฑos
Dream Job, Turned Nightmare
A Fun Night
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
ืืื
Raped as a Boy
Growth
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
She wanted me to prove I loved...
15
I can say it now
Stupid Coward
ืืื ืืฉื ื ืขืืืืืช ืืงืืืืื
In Korea
My Journey Back to Life
It’s still happening
ืืื ืืื ืืจ
I Choose Hope

