#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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Black and Blue
Growing Past Just Surviving
Drugged
#IStandWithHer
My Story
I Didn’t See It In Time
When will it be enough?
Gang Raped
Football Player
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
The Statistics that Changed Me
Summer 2019
In Front of My Girls
In NYC
Nothing important…
היי
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
I worked for him
My Father’s Funeral
Raped
The pain that was never mine to...
A young mother
What now?
He doesn’t even know he raped me
One Day At a Time
A respectable collegue
Rape Shaming
Boy scout of america
Males are Victims Too
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Ex-boyfriend rape
Don’t Know
Wanted Love But Got Rape
Unethical or illegal?
A poem about a not so perfect...
My Story – Not a fun one.
לא יוצאים מזה…
Drugged
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Raped by my boyfriend
Since Age 6?
He Was My Friend
Unhealthy Relationship
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Life of Trauma
Neighbor
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
He Was a Friend
Don’t Give Up

Not Really Love
But I Was Drunk
Still Unable to Tell People
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
הטרידו אותי
Scar
אוףףףף
I Barely Knew Them
Convincing Myself
#MeToo, too
Man Raped By Man
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Raped
A Journal of a Wayward Child
I Was Raped?
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Brother & Sister
לפני 14 שנים
כמוני כמוך
I still see him on campus
A Week Before 18th Birthday
I Trusted Him
Twice
Light In The Dark
Useless tears
עדיין מציק
Survivor

היי לינור
My Boss Raped Me
Chiropractor
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
I am not a rape victim
1 in 5
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Broken Trust
NYC Vacation
Supposed To Be There
Grooming
I wish she wouldve helped me
Sexual Abuse
Third time’s the charm
Forever Changed
Roommates
We met at the bar
Seis Años
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Victim of Abuse
My Story of a Gang Rape
Military Sexual Trauma
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Someone so close to me
Confused
Dear Coward
Is It Really Rape?
incest
Spousal Rape
It will get better
Thank you for speaking out…
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
“My Rape” at University
Broken
These Men are More Protected Than We...
What’s Done Is Done
Ketamine Rape
So Young
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Why does this keep happening to me?
Still Terrified
The Hole in My Heart
Myself
Perfect on Paper
One Bad Decision
Raped
Rape
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
It’s Been Eight Years
I Thought He Loved Me
First Frat Party
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Father, Brother, Brother
I know when I see a rapist...
Rape
Aftermath
Ripped Me Apart
Men ruined my life
Two Times
Sexual Abuse
Him or Me
Repressed Memory
My Best Friend
Who Is To Blame?
Ms.
06.05.2006
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Drugged
I thought he was a friend
Pretty Girls
Thank you for being LOUD!
Just Words
Friends?
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
I’m a functioning alcoholic
ptsd
Why was it my fault?
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Army
Spoke out and was blamed
Another kid raped me
Think About It Everyday
I Was Only 7
He did it again and again
Ended in Rape
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
My story growing up with a secret
Weathering The Storm
I Thought I Was Safe
I Said No
It started with you.
A Child
A Different MeToo
I Said No
Married My Rapist
Trapped
My Rape
No One Is Who They Appear To...
He was 56
Brock and Will
I blamed myself… Twice
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Date Rape
Mi Historia
No Stranger
My biggest mistake
I didn’t realise until now
Twice
Violent Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Love of My Life?
I Was Manipulated
Ended in Rape
My rapist sent me a friend request...
Just a Child
גבר אלים וחולני
He Was A Police Officer
Lifetime of Abuse
When I Was 7
Was it rape?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Domestic rape
Naive and Vulnerable
Is this normal?
Enough Is Enough
He Was a Family Friend
My Girlfriend of Two Years
My First Two Times
Not A Trustworthy Man
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Stolen Innocence
I Am Brave!
He took everything
This is MY story
Trapped In a Fantasy World
Rape
That’s not Me, it’s Her
Freaking Scared
Ketamine Rape
I Thought I Was Safe
No More Silence
In The Concrete Jungle
My best friend
Stronger Than You Think
She sent a Warning, and Paid for...
One week and three days
Its been Years
That “man”
Molestation
i was a child.
Rape
Nobody Knows
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
It never goes away
Bad Morning
Can’t Even Take My Medicine
Family members ex husband
Since Age 6?
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
I Never Give Up

