#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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Speaking Up
I Am Brave!
Let Down
April 8th, 2016
To my best friend who raped me
Erase and Rewind
Rape Survivor
A Lifetime
So Now What?
I want to be better
We met at the bar
Mi Esposa
Why did this happen to me???
Multiple Times
High School Rape
My posting
Date gone wrong
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Sexual Assault
Summer 2019
ללינור היקרה
Date Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
It was never…..That
Breaking the Silence

You Can’t Trust Anyone
He’s Your Husband, It’s Not Rape
3x
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My Rape
Raped
Choir Camp
Ms.
Prescription Drugs
Hundreds of Times
My Story
The Devil You Know
Broken
Assault at 12 Years by Teacher
My Relationship With Dad
Male dancer
Make Me Proud
My message to all
Beyond a story
I am a survivor
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Miss
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
I didn’t say “no”
What’s Done Is Done
My Ongoing Journey
Males can be victims too
When will it be enough?
No
New Years
A Private College; A Private Rape
Someone so close to me
Raped by my boyfriend
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
It’s my fault
Attempt to Rape
Dirty Whore
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Such Shame
Not My Friend
יש חיים אחרי אונס
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Too Young and Unsure
My First Time Speaking Up
Afraid
How Many Times?
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Thank You
The Fight We Can All Win
Around 9 PM
Ex
Sexual Abuse
More Than a Survivor
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Letter to My Rapist
Mi Historia
I Was Only 7
I know when I see a rapist...
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Politeness Serves No One
In Denial of My Rape
Are you sure?
14 year old raped at school
Start of grooming at 15
Holiday Rape
So drunk I can’t remember
Only 12
Date Rape
My Modeling Experience
Alone
No Justice
Child sexual abuse
The Terrible 4
Drugged
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Life of Trauma
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Nightmare
Different face, but the same monster
“Me too” On Facebook
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Don’t Give Up

Never Heals
My Story
Army
Why did this happen to me???
Broken Girl
What Is Success?
היי לינור
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Sexual Coercion
אוףףףף
He Was My Family
I’m Doing You a Favor
#MeToo, too
I Thought I Was Safe
So Many Times
Pastor’s Son
The Girl Who Went To College
Rape inside marriage is still rape…
Assault, Battery, and Rape
The Party I Will Never Forget
A Survivor’s Mindset
I Was Raped
There Is Hope For Us
Dear Coward
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Everyone loves him
Unicorns
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Drunken Rape
Nashville Sweetheart
Rape
My Best Friend’s Brother
Worst pain of my life
He Was a Friend
Broken
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Too naïve
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
The Aftermath
I Recorded my Rapist
Unsure
Its Got To STOP!
Some of my story
כמוני כמוך
11 Years to Justice
Secret Sorrow
My principal mom raped me
Respect Our Elders
Respect
Myself
Not Over It
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Betrayed
Family
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
School Rape
Life Purpose
I’m Not Easy
Workplace Sexual Harassment
A Meek Young Girl
He was my best friend
Bad Morning
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
He Destroyed Me
Sexual Harrassment
Manipulation
Two Friends and Two Boys
My story growing up with a secret
My Daughter and I Both
5th Grade
It’s OK
Off My Shoulders
i was a child.
Childhood Abuse
No Justice
Finally Arrested
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
Date Rape
Case Closed
I Never Thought
Just wanted to be loved
Brother & Sister
En Enero de 2010
More Than Once
De Los 6 a Los 12
A Part of My Twenties
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Abuse Continued
Playing House
Together, We Are Brave

He was jealous of my new friend
Spoke out and was blamed
Never Going To Happen To Me
My babysitter
Hundreds of Times
גבר אלים וחולני
My Father Molested Me for 10 Years
Trapped
An Embarrassing Situation
Thought He Was A Friend
Sex doll
I Never Told Anyone
The pain that was never mine to...
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Remember as a victim you have done...
Raped in my own bed
It is not my fault
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
5th Grade
You had no rights
I Didn’t Want to Do It
לפני 14 שנים
Taking Back My Life
J’avais 13 ans
Guilt and Shame Almost Killed
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
Knowledge is Power
College Professor
Scammer
I don’t know anymore
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Assault?
The pain that was never mine to...
I was a child
Speaking Out
הטרידו אותי
Breaking the Trust
He Was a Friend
My Side
I Remember Being Happy
Black and Blue
Deja Vu
Perfect on Paper
my story
Rock It!

Ketamine Rape
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
A story never told
Night Out
People You Do Not Know
A Different MeToo
Raped at a Birthday Party
Survivor, Still Struggling
Light In The Dark
I didn’t know what to do
Broken
Child sexual abuse
Roommates
Family Member
Unethical or illegal?
עדיין מציק
Bringing the Stories to Light
Young and Unaware
Didn’t Know Until Later
Confused
Why does this keep happening to me?
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Raped
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Travelling
When I Was 8 Years Old
Spousal Rape
Date rape
My Rape Story
Does the pain ever go away?
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Living With Us
Raped because of who I loved
Raped in the Air Force
There are a lot of assholes on...
A Night I Can’t Remember
I Am Brave
