#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 Feel So Betrayed
I Still Blame Myself
Rape
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
He’s Still Out There
My Nightmare
Raped By 6 Policemen
Raped On My Bday
Love and Forced abortion
He bought me chips and sent me...
Life Changed
2-4 am on January 15th
It wasn’t my fault
I was carrying his daughter.
היי לינור
Young and dumb?
I was born for this
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Piano Teacher
Multiple Times
So drunk I can’t remember
I Thought He Loved Me
Happy Hell-oween
silent rape
My Daughter
Molested
לפני 14 שנים
Twice
Forgiving My Rapist
Flashbacks
Last Party
Six Years of Denial
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Rape
My Rape
Friends are sharing
Rape Survivor
Confronting My Step-Father
First Friend at University
לא יוצאים מזה…
I was raped for 3 years
my story
I’m Not Easy
So Many Times
Why
3 Generations
It will get better
En Enero de 2010
Groomed
Stronger Than You Think
I’m finally letting my hurt out
Out of Control
Fishing Trips
Is this normal?
He Was a Friend
Teatime
I Will Never Forget
Multiple Times
My younger brother
Walk Me?
I dont know what to call it
Useless tears
What Happened?
Just Another Night
There Is Hope For Us
Childhood Abuse
First date: Raped after school at 15
Worst Day Ever
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A Picture
Beyond a story
PART 2: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Not Over It
Returning to Mexico
Sex doll
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Your First
An Abnormal Reaction
My First Boyfriend
To my best friend who raped me
I Was Only 7
Goodbye Virginity
MesS Into A mesSage
Sexual Assault
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Fight
Summer 2019
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
(Part of) My Story
Everyone loves him
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Something I’ve Never Shared
Rape and Not Believed
4 short stories of sexual aggresion
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
He was family
No means yes to some
A Lifetime
Sexual assault
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Raped Husband
Just Another Night
University Bar
ללינור היקרה
Now It’s Too Late
Not Sure It Happened
Family Member
Devil In Disguise
Betrayed
Stolen Innocence
Why wasn’t I able to say “NO!”?
Rape survivor
I met evil at a young age
Stuck
Let Down
I Barely Knew Them
Bringing the Stories to Light
Naive
Still Haven’t Healed
Does the pain ever go away?
A Day My Life Changed Forever
School Prom
Seeing My Rapist Everday
Blaming Myself
Speaking Up for Women
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Prisoner of Love
A Year After
Date gone wrong
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I’m letting go
You were supposed to be my friend
עדיין מציק
Another kid raped me
Mi Historia
School Bathroom
I Remember How It Felt
Drugged raped and failed by justice
I Want to Live
He over stepped the mark
Life Was Ruined
Repressed Memory
Nearly 50 years later
April 2015
One Day At a Time
Assaulted
Drugged and Raped
So Now What?
Shout Out
It’s Been 10 Years
Still Terrified
7 years and it still controls me
He Destroyed Me
Sexual Assault
Males can be victims too
No one helped me !!!
Raped by a so called friend
Wedding Horror Story
My Little Town
Embrace It All
3 years on
Do I even belong here?
Dear Coward
Mi Esposa
Siblings
An Abnormal Reaction
A Story
Army
His Masterpiece
A Meek Young Girl
I was a raped by a couple...
Sexual Abuse
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
The Girl Who Went To College
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
St. Louis Riots
I Was Raped?
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
גבר אלים וחולני
Rape
Time To Tell
Unethical or illegal?
Your truth will change someones’ life.
A respectable collegue
Seis Años
Naive College Freshman
Gang Rape
Sexually Assaulted Abroad
Online dating
היי
Justice
De Los 6 a Los 12
Ritual Sexual Abuse
3 Days After Arriving at College
My story
My Evil Cousins
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
Ms.
Molested While Sleeping
Rape and the Aftermath
Warrior
Gang Raped
My Religious Teacher
My 19 year old cousin
I’m Sorry if Assaulting Me Hurt You
Help!! What Can I Do?
Trapped
אוףףףף
High School Orientation
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Survivor
Roommates
Myself
I Said No
Raped in the Air Force
My Daughter’s Rape
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
My Life
Did I ask for it?
Drugged
Incest
Brother Abused
Ashly’s story
Lightening Does Strike Twice
He’s Your Husband, It’s Not Rape
Never Got Over It
It was in a society that told...
J’avais 13 ans
Living With Us
Ready to Share
A Close Call With Family
Aftermath
Daycare
Surviving, Kinda
Hidden But Not Forgotten
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
Hostage
I “needed” to do this!
Just Words
Undertones Throughout My Life
All Just Too Much
Innocence Taken
Close of a Brother
By my friend
Love of My Life?
My story growing up with a secret
Raped By a Friend
What Is Success?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Twice a pattern?
Worthless
I am J. D. R., and I...
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Now I Understand My Husband
Despedida
Where did I go?
My Daughter
Rape by Boyfriend
Kidnapped
Katie Jones
My First Time
My Safe Place
No More Silence
Young and Unaware
My Mom
Believe Her
Raped by ex boyfriend
Its been Years
A Message from the Director
