#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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Once? Twice? Five Times?
A familiar fight
Unspoken
Help
Sharing #MeToo’s
My Story
Myself
Multiple Times
I Didn’t Want to Do It
Online dating
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I’m Not Sure
Boy scout of america
Black and Blue
I Thought I Knew Hi
Friends?
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Freshman Year
Assault
I am More than a Victim
So Much Pain Its Overwhelming
Raped
SA in school
The Statistics that Changed Me
Happy Survivor
Two Friends and Two Boys
I’m Not Easy
Night Out
Different face, but the same monster
Feeling Alone
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
My Friend’s House
Black and Blue
Incest & Date Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I “needed” to do this!
Running With Bare Feet
Do I even belong here?
Drugged
אוףףףף
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
ללינור היקרה
Was I raped?
Mi Historia
Raped By 6 Policemen
A respectable collegue
Thought He Was A Friend
Raped By Family Member
Ketamine Rape
Confused and Angry
Rapist Turned Murderer
גבר אלים וחולני
Spoke out and got fired
So drunk I can’t remember
I Was Dating Him
Pretty Girls
He Took My Virginity
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
Sexual Assault
Raped at the Air Force Academy
What sent me over the edge
Night of Psychedelic Horror
The Statistics that Changed Me
Still Can’t Believe It
Infatuation
I Was Raped?
army
Two Men Lifetimes Apart
Too much trauma
Childhood of assault
It was not my fault
School Rape
The Same Effect
Beyond a story
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Multiple Times
The same guy
We go to the same church
Lasting Effects
Hidden Emotions
Drunk and taken advantage of
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
I know when I see a rapist...
Kidnapped
Sexually assaulted at 4
Trauma
Stupid Coward
So Now What?
You were supposed to be my friend
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
My story growing up with a secret
Say Something
The Diaper in the Corner
Second Date
It started with you.
Years in Denial
Drunken Rape
Holiday Rape
Raped by my grandfather
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Only Six
Locked Up
Nobody Knows
Men ruined my life
J’avais 13 ans
I was raped last summer
אוףףףף
my story
My Best Friend & His Friend Raped...
He Was My Friend
I’m Alive
En Enero de 2010
Rape by family
Male dancer
He Was A Police Officer
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Erase and Rewind
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Raped as a Baby
You Were My Friend
Married My Rapist
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
Sexually abused by my step brothers
It’s still happening
My best friends dad
A Dating Experience and My Parents’ Attack
הטרידו אותי
My Story
Deserved What I Got
Stronger Every Day
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I don’t know anymore
Childhood Rape
I called him my friend
My Daughter
ONLY the Beginning
Trying to Survive
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
היי לינור
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Catfished
Alcohol
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Happy Birthday
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Metoo
Being Molested as a Young Boy
Raped as a Boy
Army
Online Dangers
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
My trauma and its effects
Date Rape
Life of Trauma
The cycle
13 and 16
Believe Me…
Stranger Rape
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Dear Convicted Sex Offender (Finally)
Summer 2019
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
My Story
It Was the Second
Six months in the making..
Permanently Scarred
When It’s Personal
לא יוצאים מזה…
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
College Campus Rape
I was raped
All Just Too Much
He used me. He left me.
Raped by best friend’s boyfriend
From Friends to Nothing
The Cliche
That’s not Me, it’s Her
Forgiving The Rapist
My “Step-father”
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
His opportunity
Attempt to Rape
So Long Ago
Someone so close to me
Rock It!

