#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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Trying to Survive
Monster dad
Student Exchange
They thought it was fun
3 incidents
I Trusted Him
You were supposed to be my friend
Smoke Together
My First Boyfriend
Hope for Healing
Lasting memories
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
Myself
Weak
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
The Night That Changed My World
The Man Who Never Was
My survival story
I still feel like it’s my fault
Finally Sharing
Liberating Moment
The First Time
April 19th
My Best Friend
my story
Ms.
This Is My Story
I Trusted Him
Repressed Memory
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
I Was Only 7
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Acquaintance Rape
My Story
My experience as an intern in highschool
My story growing up with a secret
Shelter My Soul
I want to be better
Four Years Ago
My First Time
I Don’t Know My Story
Still Unable to Tell People
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Bringing the Stories to Light
I was raped last summer
God Saved Me
My “Step-father”
His opportunity
Rape or Not?
Forced, De-flowered
Man Raped By Man
I Thought I was Safe
I Was Manipulated
Trader Joes
Rape
Mi Historia
Raped by a work colleague
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Miss
MY Inspirational Story
Help…
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Didn’t Know
De Los 6 a Los 12
Trapped with memories
Date Rape
ללינור היקרה
Thank You
16 times
היי
Lifetime of Abuse
Rape
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Despedida
He Loved Me
16 times
14 year old raped at school
Freshman Year
The Story Of Two Rapes
4th of July
High School Orientation
Just Words
A respectable collegue
Happy Birthday
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Erased From Memory
My Story
5 years now
More Witness than I Care to Live...
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
It was not my fault
What’s Done Is Done
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
My Cousin
Under Age drinking
Okay, Not Okay
I Remember Being Happy
Quarterly Review
2 Years Ago
J’avais 13 ans
Gross
Supposed To Be There
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Raped
Salted Wound
6 to 20
Date rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Erase and Rewind
It Happens All Too Often
Backpacking
לפני 14 שנים
Sharing #MeToo’s
A Loss to Mankind
Had Her Back
Naive and Raped at 15
Rape
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Halloween 2014
Seis Años
Overcoming My Story of Rape
אוףףףף
Summer 2019
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Too naïve
Male dancer
Childhood Abuse
Incest
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I blamed myself for so long
I buried the pain
Tree House
Sex doll
Today, I Let It All Go
army
It will get better
Don’t Know What I’m Doing
It’s still happening
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Survivor
