#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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Never Even Knew
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
He took everything
The Touches I Felt
My Rape
Rape Shaming
Sophomore Year College
High School Rape
I Prayed for Death
lucky
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
3 Days After Arriving at College
I Thought It Was My Fault
School Bathroom
Unicorns
Do NOT Trust Strangers
My Interview
Nirbhaya “ fearless”: Justice for the Brutal...
Broken vase
Sex doll
I wish I remembered
Molested at 3
Breaking the Trust
I let it happen twice
My Brave Daughter
Stronger Every Day
Myself
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
ללינור היקרה
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
I know when I see a rapist...
I Did NOT Get Justice But I...
I was attacked at 19 years old
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Just A Party
Why
Hostage
#MeToo I am 1
The Statistics that Changed Me
random rape
Childhood nightmares
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Raped and Numbed
So Much Pain Its Overwhelming
עדיין מציק
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Camp rape
Tulane Law
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Never Seemed Worth Telling
A Lifetime
Thank you
De Los 6 a Los 12
Smoke Together
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Planned Rape
Scarred for life
Male dancer
Afraid of Being Judged
Molested
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
He was a friend
I Thought I was Safe
היי לינור
Metoo
Help!! What Can I Do?
Trapped
I Want to Live
The Devil You Know
Impacted Forever
Family
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Molested and Confused
I Trusted Him
Drunk and Alone
Stranger Rape
Beyond a story
Someone I Dated
My case is different from yours
Catfished
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
I Remember How It Felt
Ms.
אוףףףף
Who Is To Blame?
Rape
My Story
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Does the pain ever go away?
My husband was molested as a child
More Witness than I Care to Live...
כמוני כמוך
People You Do Not Know
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
Breaking Trust
I want to Call it what it...
Raped at the Air Force Academy
My First Time Speaking Up
Perfect on Paper
Not My Friend
Why was it my fault?
Spoke out and was blamed
A respectable collegue
Rape
Holding It In
Violated
Multiple Rapes
Not Okay
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
5
Multiple Rapes
Shelter My Soul
Bus Ride
Rape survivor
Raped as a Baby
Lasting Effects
My First Time
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
17
My message to all
The Aftermath
Still Lost :/
Prom Night
Mi Historia
Pedophile Neighbour
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I was used. I got left. I...
I didn’t fight back.
I’m Still Here… Wish For Peace
Dad Raped Me
Did I ask for this?
I Thought They Cared About Me
Hospitalized
23 year old virgin
Seis Años
Only I get to make choices for...
It never stops changing you and thats...
It was never…..That
Friend?
Wanted Love But Got Rape
My First Two Times
I regret not telling
Today, I Let It All Go
So drunk I can’t remember
My Two Rapes
My Story
He had my pants down
Its Got To STOP!
…
Raped in the Air Force
Roommates
J’avais 13 ans
Don’t Give Up

Lying Child Molester
היי
He bought me chips and sent me...
Summer 2019
Molested
He was right
Respect Our Elders
My First Time
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Sexual Abuse
In The Past
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
He Was a Cop
Politeness Serves No One
I was 13
I didn’t realise until now
Every Way Imaginable
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Ritual Sexual Abuse
I was raped last summer
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Suffered and Survived
Feeling Alone
It’s OK
Freshman Year
Drunk and taken advantage of
To the men who hurt me
Why wasn’t I able to say “NO!”?
I Am Not Brave
Lasting memories
The Girl Who Went To College
Rape
I Don’t Trust My Father
Read This Please
My Boyfriend Raped Me
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
I said YES
Miss
Roofied
I Never Give Up
