#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. Womenโs 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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I Was 3 Years Old
My story growing up with a secret
My experience as an intern in highschool
Ending Misogyny
It Felt Like Rape
The Life I Live
Case Closed
What Is Success?
Remember November
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Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
April 19th
Had Her Back
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
At the Movie’s
One in Four
I said no – but he took...
Just a Child
The Night My Life Changed
I Am Not Brave
I Own My Story
I am a survivor
Obsessed Abusive Ex
The Man in Uniform
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT WORK
Warning
Finding Me
College Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
Miss
Sexual Assault
A Night I Canโt Remember
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
All Just Too Much
2 Strangers
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
7th Grade Assault
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Why Me?
I didn’t know
Family
More Than Half of My Life Ago
I donโt know anymore
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped in the Air Force
Protect and Served and Raped
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Black and Blue
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Your truth will change someones’ life.
So drunk I can’t remember
sexual assault
Spoke out and was blamed
Survivor

Workplace Sexual Harassment
Friend?
Night of Psychedelic Horror
I don’t Know, but I Know
What Happened?
By my friend
Rape, Sexual Abuse
Naive and Raped at 15
A Private College; A Private Rape
Seis Aรฑos
More Than Once
Middle School
Too naรฏve
NYC Vacation
23 year old virgin
Nobody Knew
Scar
Molested
I Thought I was Safe
The Night That Changed My Life
So Called Friends
My Mother’s Albatross
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Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Interview
Life Changer
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
Army
Weak
ืืกืืคืืจ ืฉืื…
dad and mom rape
Ya perdonรฉ pero nunca olvido
Mi Esposa
Raped by stranger x2
โI should do this more oftenโ
It’s A Long Story
A respectable collegue
I guess it was rape
Can Anyone Help?
My Two Days of Hell
Lasting memories
Date Raped When I Was 15
It is not my fault
Started At 12…
Frozen in fear
My fiancรฉ is my rapist but I...
What sent me over the edge
Shattered Childhood
I Woke Up In The Tub
Thank you
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
I was raped
my story
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Drugged and Gang Raped
What Was I Thinking?
But what really happened?
Mi Esposa
He Was a Cop
PART 5: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
My First Memory
My Childhood
Say Something
My Own Sister
Erase and Rewind
My Classmate
My Life in Foster Care
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Never Even Knew
My Daughter
two years ago
Freshman Year
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Did He Rape My Mind Too
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
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Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
My Fiancรฉ Destroyed Me
I Was Only a Child
Twice a pattern?
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
Six Year Old’s Point of View
Enough Is Enough
My Year in Hell
En Enero de 2010
Co-worker
37 Years Ago
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
When I Was 7
Don’t Give Up

