#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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Extreme Blessings
I Trusted Him
Just A Party
Raped by jail guard
No Justice
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Survivor

More Than Once
Nashville Sweetheart
Too naïve
Let Down
I think my “boyfriend” raped me
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
It Was the Second
I was very dumb.
Another Victim
My Story
Don’t Give Up

De Los 6 a Los 12
Fear
Ms.
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
עדיין מציק
Employer rape
Growing Past Just Surviving
It Happens All Too Often
An uncle who couldn’t keep his hands...
Males are Victims Too
I still don’t know what happened
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Unethical or illegal?
My childhood
The Setup
She Should Be Over It
My Modeling Experience
My neighbor and his friends
Politeness Serves No One
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
I dont know what to call it
Only I get to make choices for...
He’s Still Out There
Raped in College
Twice
Rape
Just Words
Male dancer
Set Up
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Your First
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Not normal
Raped After School
My Mother Was Raped
Raped By a Female
It was never…..That
i was a child.
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
It was not my fault
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
This is my story
He Cashed in His Trust
En Enero de 2010
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Living Nightmare
Why was it my fault?
Letter to my offender part 2
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Silent Rape
Never Forgotten
Letter to Senators
The Statistics that Changed Me
הטרידו אותי
MesS Into A mesSage
Forgiving myself
Rape by Boyfriend
My Childhood
Raped in my Hostel
So Many Years to Remember
Lesbian After Assaults
Blamed myself …
My Evil Brother
היי לינור
Raped by stranger x2
He had my pants down
My Rape Story
These Men are More Protected Than We...
The Fight We Can All Win
Kibbutz
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
No Justice
I Was 16
My Story
Quarterly Review
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Drunken Rape
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
I am a Rape Survivor
Sexual Abuse
Metoo
My Friend’s House
Still Affected
Realization of Rape
Raped by a US Marine when I...
How Many Times?
Pain
Sexual Assault Survival
De Los 6 a Los 12
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Raped at the age of 16
You Can’t Trust Anyone
My Daughter
My Husband Set Me Up!
Bringing the Stories to Light
Broken Car Broke Me
The pain that was never mine to...
I know when I see a rapist...
He took it as yes
3 Days After Arriving at College
We go to the same church
The Summer of 2013
כמוני כמוך
Noah
was i raped?
Years later… meeting my rapist again
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Thought He Was A Friend
My boyfriend of 2 years
Working Through It
Childhood Trauma
Thank You
Supporting Sisters
My 21st Birthday
Dee Bhagwanji
Molested
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Raped at 17
The Devil You Know
The Night That Changed My Life
Raped, Adopted, Raped Again
Blamed Myself
Raped
5 Years On
School Bathroom
When will it be enough?
Ex-Boyfriend
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Mi Esposa
Girl Raped By a Girl
Rape
Happy Survivor
No Support
Abused as a Child
Don’t Want to Anymore
Saying No Just Wasn’t Enough
God Saved Me
He Was My Boyfriend
Some Friend
My best friend raped me
Warrior
Lying Child Molester
I regret not telling
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Vaseline Stepbrother
Short Story
Still Unable to Tell People
Assaulted
Sexual Assault
לפני 14 שנים
Log
Raped At 16, 29, 31
Bullied for Reporting Sexual Assault
Michael B. raped me
Lasting Effects
My Story
‘Were you drinking?’
College Student
I Still Blame Myself
High School Orientation
My Story
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
13 and 16
Salted Wound
Confused
My story growing up with a secret
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Pretty Girls
Black and Blue
When I Was 7
My Ongoing Journey
My Rape
Help!! What Can I Do?
Shelter My Soul
Almost Raped
Shout Out
Set Up
I Was Only 14
I like to think I won’t feel...
Despedida
Mi Historia
I Didn’t Know
The Scapegoat of Shame an Guilt
Feeling Alone
Sophomore Year College
Just Friends
New Years Eve
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Once Again
Rape
Being Raped
Scars That Heal
Raped in the Air Force
עדיין מציק
Male dancer
Shelter My Soul
I’m Disgusted
Now I Understand My Husband
Two times. One year.
Sex doll
Forever Changed
Boyfriend Hell
Myself
Date Raped at 19
When I Was 7
Not Really Family
Holiday Rape
גבר אלים וחולני
Sexual Abuse of Minors
My Story
My Brother’s Best Friend
Raped at 16
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
It Kills Me
To this day I still feel sick…
3 incidents
My family friend
Sexually Assaulted as a Child
First Frat Party
A respectable collegue
Rape
אוףףףף
Freshman Year
My story growing up with a secret
I “needed” to do this!
A Lifetime
My Story
I am a survivor and got over...
Am i being raped?
The Story of a Boy
Football Player
My Story
Brock and Will
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Emotional Abuse
So Now What?
Broken
I need some advice
Summer 2019
Unlucky
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Third time’s the charm
עדיין מציק
From Grief to Trauma
Time Heals
1 in 5
I thought you loved me
Erase and Rewind
Shelter My Soul
Just Another Night
I Feel So Betrayed
My Story
Man Raped By Man
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Rape
my story
I Choose Hope

