#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.
Contact us here: producers@BraveMissWorld.com
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I Thought I Knew Him
Don’t Want to Admit It
Help
Today, I Let It All Go
Despedida
Last Party
Braver

Your truth will change someones’ life.
My Rape Stories
Rape
Betrayed By a Loved One
Child rape
Left Me In Pieces
Bringing the Stories to Light
First Frat Party
Raped
Blamed myself …
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
1 in 5
Lesbian After Assaults
Where is Justice
Unethical or illegal?
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Raped by a so called friend
I thought you loved me
What sent me over the edge
A Loss to Mankind
I still see him on campus
Child Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Supporting Sisters
He said he’d never do it again
Healing in progress
Seis Años
Literal Hell
Drugged
Afraid of Being Judged
NYD
Lost In Time
Set Up
I blamed myself… Twice
Trapped with memories
כמוני כמוך
My Life, My Achievement
Ketamine Rape
Male dancer
Smoke Together
My best friend
A Letter to My “Family”
Glitter Girl, Gone.
The First time I shared…
Neighbors
New Years Eve Party
Rape Is Everywhere
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
I Don’t Trust My Father
Ex-Boyfriend
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Moving on Alone from Rape
Date Rape Drug
There is hope
גבר אלים וחולני
Raped in the Air Force
ללינור היקרה
My Daughter and I Both
I wish I could change the past
Abuse Continued
Being Molested as a Young Boy
I Thought He Was My Friend
Step Daddy
Scar
Victim No More
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
Surpris à la Maison
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
עדיין מציק
Breaking the Silence
What Is Success?
I was sold to a pedophile
הטרידו אותי
Help !
Just a Child
My Husband Set Me Up!
Sex doll
Ashly’s story
Coping with rape during a pandemic
MesS Into A mesSage
My Year in Hell
Rape
The Stepmonster
My First Time
Who is Responsible?
They asked if I was lying
My survival story
A Survivor, Not a Victim
My Side
My Brave Daughter
Bringing the Stories to Light
I called him my friend
Rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Erase and Rewind
Young and Innocent
Not just me
These Men are More Protected Than We...
I still see him on campus
A Message from the Director

Kidnapped
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
Good Guy
With Love
Sexual Assault
הסיפור שלי…
Student Exchange
My babysitter
Molested used as a sex slave
LOST
Multiple Times
Scar
Family Member
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A respectable collegue
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
“I should do this more often”
Raped By Boyfriend
My First Two Times
Myself
my story
I Am a Survivor…
Nearly 50 years later
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
My Story
Incest abuse
Online dating
When I Was 7
Afraid of Being Judged
My Safe Place
You Were My Friend
This Is My Story
What’s Done Is Done
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
I thought we were friends
היי
Forever Changed
The Gentleman
Can Anyone Help?
2 Years Ago
Camilla’s Story
So Many Times
I Was Told It Was Normal
Rape
לא יוצאים מזה…
3 incidents
My 21st Birthday
He’s Dead
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Step Dad
My story of my date rape
Just little girls
I Was Only 7
Drunken Rape
An Abnormal Reaction
He took everything
Stranger Danger, Yeah Right.
Don’t Give Up
