#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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Nashville Sweetheart
Perfect on Paper
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Raped By My Father
Realization of Rape
3x
Raped By a Friend
A Night To Remember
Innocence Taken
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Multiple Rapes
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Scars
An Unknown Face & Hands
When I Was 8 Years Old
Victimization
Moving on Alone from Rape
“He can’t sexually assault you he’s Christian”
Pastor’s Son
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
I Woke Up In The Tub
my story
Incest & Date Rape
I was raped and I didnt know...
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Raped
Twice
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Someday Soon
Emotional Abuse
Army
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Bad Morning
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Ignored For a Lifetime
גבר אלים וחולני
First Frat Party
Just Words
Ashly’s story
Raped After School
Mi Esposa
Two times. One year.
blackmailed
Love of My Life?
An Unknown Face & Hands
Too naïve
He Lied
Summer 2019
Gang Rape
Rape and Crisis
Raped by stranger x2
My Innocence Was Taken Away
Sex doll
Remember November
Boyfriend Hell
Trying To Help
Creepy Grand Uncle
Rape??
After I Was Raped
Myself
Now I Understand My Husband
In The Past
היי לינור
Black Out
To my best friend who raped me
Molested by Cousin
Is this normal?
Mi Historia
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Them
A respectable collegue
My story
16 times
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Every one ignored me
Kept From Us
Raped in the Air Force
Getting Better
Do you remember your first time?
Confused by Rape
A Story
A Ruined Life
I said no
Sexually Assaulted
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Politeness Serves No One
Date rape
Hostage
Despedida
Metoo
An Amazing Woman
He Loved Me
2 Years Ago
I Was Raped?
The pain that was never mine to...
My posting
I Felt So Helpless
Raped in my own bed
אוףףףף
I Hate You
Story Subject: * I thought he was...
It Happens All Too Often
My Year in Hell
Salted Wound
I think my “boyfriend” raped me
I Did NOT Get Justice But I...
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
When Will This Nightmare End
Unhealthy Relationship
My Daughter
My Fight
Once Again
Feeling Alone
Afraid of Being Judged
Former partner would berate me
I know when I see a rapist...
April 2015
I Came Home
Date Rape Drug
So drunk I can’t remember
Abuse Continued
I finally said NO
College Rape
Spousal Rape
It started with you.
Childhood Rape
Date Rape
I Want to Live
Rape
Rape
raped and isolated
You were supposed to be my friend
How can we make it stop?
Erase and Rewind
My Husband Set Me Up!
Warning
10 Minutos Can Change Your Life
Wanted Love But Got Rape
Date Rape?
Life Changer
Twenty Years of Hell
Does the pain ever go away?
I Thought He Loved Me
Unfair
My abuse
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Time To Tell
Freshman Year
Raped in Milan
My Safe Place
Unethical or illegal?
I Was Only 7
Just Another Night
Finally Sharing
I Thought I was Safe
Male dancer
Stupid Coward
Too Far
Ex
My Mother was raped and told me...
The Fight We Can All Win
An Embarrassing Situation
Afraid of the Truth
I wish I would have been smarter
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Attempted rape
Rape
Was It My Fault?
My Innocence Was Taken Away
My story growing up with a secret
The abuser
הטרידו אותי
היי
Is love assault?
How Could It Have Happened
Sexual Abuse
Knowledge is Power
I Remember Being Happy
I can’t remember if I said yes...
He Was a Family Friend
Moving On
Sexual Assault
I’ve survived sexual abuse
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Camp rape
He doesn’t even know he raped me
why me
College Professor
We met at the bar
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
innocent
My Rape
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
A Big Man
Survivor
Why Me Over and Over?
Is There Still Hope
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Undertones Throughout My Life
The Statistics that Changed Me
My Journey
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Relationship does not equal consent
הסיפור שלי…
My Rape Stories
Holiday Rape
Lying Child Molester
I Am More Than It
All Just Too Much
De Los 6 a Los 12
Too naïve
Rape Is Everywhere
The First time I shared…
Just Wanted to Escape
לא יוצאים מזה…
In NYC
Childhood of assault
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Raped and Abused
I was too young to know what...
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
my story-and where i “took it”…
Intimate Partner Violence
It never stops changing you
עדיין מציק
Ex Boyfriend
The Stepmonster
We Stand Together
My Uncle
I’m Now a Statistic
I Need to Tell Someone
Ms.
Rape
Hope after repeated rape
Unforgiven
Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Childhood Story
Raped in Foster care
Cavemen
A Night To Remember
Spoke out and was blamed
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Who Is To Blame?
Sexual Abuse
I Choose Hope


