#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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Nearly 50 years later
Seis Años
3x
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
The Same Effect
Freshman Year
Surviving, Kinda
Unethical or illegal?
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Broken to Bold
Love of My Life?
I Slept Next to Him
ללינור היקרה
Aftermath
Date Rape
Thank you for speaking out…
No One Believes Me
You had no rights
My Story
Love and Forced abortion
I was molested and raped at 6
I Am More Than It
I Want to Live
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Unlucky
Frozen
So drunk I can’t remember
Justice a Joke
Happy Birthday
My First Memories….
Creepy Grand Uncle
Myself
Surviving Sexual Abuse: A Childhood Story
Stepfather
What Can I Do
I Still Blame Myself
Gang Raped
7 years and it still controls me
כמוני כמוך
Sexual Abuse
Something I’ve Never Shared
Finding Me
Too naïve
Serial Rapist
My Stepdad Molested Me
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
The Statistics that Changed Me
Molested at 3
Ms.
I was very dumb.
My Childhood
My Nightmare
Say Something
My Brother
Rape and Not Believed
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
He Took My Virginity
Public Rape
Case Closed
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Sexual Assault in my own bed
My Brave Daughter
You Were My Friend
Noah
Close of a Brother
my story-and where i “took it”…
Not Guilty
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Scars That Heal
Freshman on Campus
Brothers
Army
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
We met at the bar
Raped in the Air Force
Just Wanted to Escape
This could never happen to me
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Rape and the Aftermath
How Many Times?
Life of Trauma
I am a survivor
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I Prayed for Death
Breaking the Silence

Fraternity gang rape
Okay, Not Okay
גבר אלים וחולני
Close of a Brother
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
3 Different Times
Kibbutz
Confused
Thank You
A Life of Pain
Being Raped
Who Is To Blame?
Ketamine Rape
Family Ties
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Survivor

Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
היי לינור
It Happens All Too Often
Raped By My Therapist
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
My Horrific Nightmare
Raped by a work colleague
No
Scar
Male dancer
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Multiple Times
Unicorns
There once was love
Summer of ’09
Mi Esposa
More Than Once
Rape By My Husband
Rape
Why
Dating & Relatives
It was someone I knew and I...
Sexual Coercion
A Story
Raped by Brother
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Unlucky
There once was love
Dirty Whore
Sexual abuse by brother
Holding My Feelings In
Travel
Spoke out and was blamed
J’avais 13 ans
10 years later I realised
Raped by school ‘friend’
אוףףףף
Short Story
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Felt safe in my friend group
Rape
It was his word against mine
College Professor
More Than Once
Assaulted
Nerve damage
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Supporting Sisters
He Was My Boss
Date Rape
“Me too” On Facebook
Incest
Afraid
Locked Up
Sex doll
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Just Words
Stuck
Erase and Rewind
In Denial of My Rape
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Becoming a Warrior
It was just a friend date
Assault
De Los 6 a Los 12
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Mrs
I still don’t know what happened
Don’t Give Up

Ashly’s story
Me, Myself & Monsters
I Don’t Trust My Father
Growth
Semper Fi
Life Changer
A respectable collegue
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
So Long Ago But Still With Me
My Story, My Nightmare
Hated Myself
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Nothing important…
Was I assaulted?
College Campus Rape
Black and Blue
Drunk and taken advantage of
I was raped and I didnt know...
Raped in College
My Story
He was jealous of my new friend
Rape
Moving on Alone from Rape
It was never…..That
I know when I see a rapist...
My Army Fiance
Someone Close to You
My story growing up with a secret
Victim of sexual assault
Spring Break Nightmare
Still Haven’t Healed
Thank you for speaking out…
Just Another Night
Date Rape
I Was Only 7
An Unknown Face & Hands
Mi Historia
Babysitters
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Naive and Vulnerable
היי
School Rape
This will be painful
לפני 14 שנים
Sexual harassment
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
So Now What?
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
Way Back in 1973
Mental Breakdown
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Nearly 50 years later
Being Raped
The Boys Club Continues
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Hateful
A letter to my rapist
But I Was Drunk
I just wanted to give him a...
No Justice
Raped By My Partner
Males can be victims too
Forced, De-flowered
I Never Give Up


