#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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‘Were you drinking?’
Denial
Speak up for yourself
Forced, De-flowered
Short Story
Roommates
Just Another Night
I just realized this today.
Myself
Black and Blue
Ignored For a Lifetime
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped in the Air Force
It was never…..That
Prescription Drugs
Still Hurting
Last Party
Isn’t Any Proof
Michelle Johnston
Our Corrupted Country
End of Innocence
I can say it now
weird brother
Date Raped When I Was 15
Lightening Does Strike Twice
A Lifetime
Be Aware
Just Words
I Slept Next to Him
The healing process
Raped
How to handle it
De Los 6 a Los 12
Forced, De-flowered
So drunk I can’t remember
The pain that was never mine to...
Ashamed
Them
Help!! What Can I Do?
Still Hurting
My Brother
Two Friends and Two Boys
I know when I see a rapist...
Freaking Scared
A respectable collegue
More Than Once
I Prayed for Death
A Life of Pain
Time To Tell
I Prayed for Death
My best friends dad
Rape
Alone and Afraid
Just a Child
my story
LOST
Rape and Crisis
Thank you
It never seems like Rape to me
My younger brother
Childhood Friend Date Rape
I just wanted to give him a...
Tormented
you do what you gotta
I Remember Being Happy
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Shame Destroys
They thought it was fun
Enough Is Enough
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
An Embarrassing Situation
Why Me Over and Over?
5
Brock and Will
Circumstances Collided That Night
A Night I Can’t Remember
Was it rape?
Victim of Abuse
Date Rape
College Student
Letter to…
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
Freshman Year
Spoke out and was blamed
Why Me Over and Over?
Warning
Trader Joes
My rape story
Unethical or illegal?
Sexual Abuse
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Raped in my Hostel
Innocence
When does it end?
לפני 14 שנים
Drunken Rape
Raped Three Times
Drunk and Alone
Victim Impact Statement
It’s still happening
Incest
Grandpa
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
All Just Too Much
The Statistics that Changed Me
Workplace Sexual Harassment
My Story
Shout Out
Sex doll
I didn’t fight back.
Repressed Memories x3 Abusers
My Scars Do Not Define Me
I still don’t know
Sexually Assaulted Abroad
Will I ever get over it.
An Abnormal Reaction
High School Rape
Last Party
The Statistics that Changed Me
Raped because of who I loved
My Abusers
אוףףףף
The Story Of Two Rapes
Being Raped
Multiple Times
My Brother’s Best Friend
Scared to close my eyes
Believe Her
Does the pain ever go away?
Molested at 8
He Was My Father
A person to trust became my worst...
School Principal
Never Be the Same Again
Thank you for being LOUD!
Why does this keep happening to me?
I lost all the important people in...
I don’t Know, but I Know
Raped because of who I loved
עדיין מציק
I am a Rape Survivor
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Supporting Sisters
“Austin”
Mi Historia
My Rapists I Grew Up With
I wish I would have been smarter
First Frat Party
Mi Esposa
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
An Abnormal Reaction
My story growing up with a secret
I didn’t even know what was happening
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
raped by my own brother
Drugged
A young mother
Thank You
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Hundreds of Times
Wanted Love But Got Rape
More Than a Survivor
Still Going
lucky
3x
Holding My Feelings In
Young and Unaware
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
They Laughed
I wanted to get high
“Me too” On Facebook
היי לינור
Despedida
3rd Grade Boys
My Army Fiance
Rape Victim
He Was My Dad
Incest
Life Purpose
An Unknown Face & Hands
Wouldn’t take no for an answer
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
He Was a Friend
3x
Why: A Poem About My Rape
I Was Only 7
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Finally facing it
He Was My Boyfriend
Life Is Rough
Broken Girl
Too scared to tell
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Monster dad
לא יוצאים מזה…
Male dancer
Child Rape
Divided into two
Catfished
Who is Responsible?
Sexually Abuse
Army
A Message from the Director
