#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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My rape story
Speaking Up for Women
Sexually assulted by coworker
13 & Alone
Confronting My Step-Father
No Wasn’t Good Enough
It’s been 5 years, and you still...
Help
Erase and Rewind
Scars
My Parents Didnt Do Anything
Out of Control
My 21st Birthday
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I don’t know what to do
I Never Thought He’d Do Something Like...
Afraid of Being Judged
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
It’s my fault
Finally Healing
Nothing important…
Is It Really Rape?
De Los 6 a Los 12
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
My boyfriend
“I’m not gonna have sex with you”
Assault?
Forgotten Memories Submerge
My Life
Betrayed
Hidden Emotions
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
עדיין מציק
Prisoner of Love
Sexual harrassment
Dad Raped Me
I Had No Idea…
My “Uncle” Raped Me
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Ms.
To my best friend who raped me
היי לינור
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Date Rape
My Stepbrother
I let it happen twice
What Is Success?
Fraternity gang rape
We go to the same church
First Crush
My Life
I am a Survivor
“You’re both minors”
Kibbutz
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
Sex doll
In-Between Times
Brother & Sister
Scared to close my eyes
Made in America
Breaking the Silence
Blindsided
Just Like Yesterday
So drunk I can’t remember
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Cavemen
My experience as an intern in highschool
In Five Years
April 19th
My story
They Laughed
I am More than a Victim
My Story
Not A Trustworthy Man
Summer 2019
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Childhood Rape
Inspired
My Daughter and I Both
Too naïve
#MeToo, too
April 19th
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Chaos
I said YES
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
My First Time
Living With Us
1 hour 3 days
I “needed” to do this!
I don’t know anymore
A Year After
I Thought He Loved Me
3 Days After Arriving at College
Why Me?
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
Shelter My Soul
My Mother was raped and told me...
Enough Is Enough
So Now What?
Neglected
Rape by Boyfriend
Why Me?
And It Continues
Black Girl
He’s Dead
God Saved Me
Breaking the Silence

My Story
Red Flags
In NYC
Mi Esposa
I was very dumb.
Only 12
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
My Girlfriend of Two Years
November ’08
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Scared and Confused
Sexually abused by my step brothers
הטרידו אותי
Male dancer
Sexual Assualt Overseas
It’s Been Eight Years
Roommates
5th Grade
I Am a Survivor…
Sharing again
Now I Understand My Husband
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
My Multiple-Offender Rape
גבר אלים וחולני
Predators
Twice is too much
Confused
The Party I Will Never Forget
En Enero de 2010
In Denial of My Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Repeat Offender
Doesn’t Define Me
With Love
Another poem about a not so perfect...
Continue to Survive
Assaulted
The Boys Club Continues
Raped in the Air Force
Bringing the Stories to Light
Was It Real or Not
Dating & Relatives
My Last Party
my story
I still see him on campus
Hateful
The Statistics that Changed Me
Be Happy It Only Involves Your Daughter
In My Home
Thank you
Today, I Let It All Go
Beyond a story
Rape, Sexual Abuse
Confused
From a Boyfriend
Too drunk to respond
April 19th
Nine Years Worth of Abuse
7 years and it still controls me
Bitter Ex-Lover
Just Words
I Think I Was Raped
Tinder Rape
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Public Rape
She was never the same…
Not Really Family
But what really happened?
Grandpa
My so called “best friend”
Molested at 3
Confused for Too Long
you do what you gotta
Date gone wrong
I forgot, but then I remembered
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Mi Historia
My survival story
Harassment
Lost Soul
13 and 16
A respectable collegue
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Metoo
Assault In the Family
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
Rape
Runaway Model
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Raped because of who I loved
J’avais 13 ans
College Campus Rape
It was not my fault
What If I Make You?
Spoke out and was blamed
יש חיים אחרי אונס
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
HE Haunts Me
היי
Why
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
High School
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
My story growing up with a secret
Two Times
Raped By 6 Policemen
Years later… meeting my rapist again
What Is Happening
Proud
I Thought He Was My Friend
In Denial of My Rape
Help
I did Not need to know this
Finally Sharing
Rape
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
It’s OK
Multiple Times
Family
This is MY story
My posting
Lost My Virginity In Rape By Jehovah’s...
Naive
Catching Up With Me
Working Through It
High School Rape
אוףףףף
Seis Años
The Elevator Man
Braver

