#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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Frozen in fear
I was raped
Breaking The Silence
Brother & Sister
The cycle
It’s Been Eight Years
Girls Without Parents
הטרידו אותי
Date Rape Drug
Date gone wrong
Too scared to tell
Camilla’s Story
It’s Hard But It Gets Better
Mi Historia
When I Was 7
An older cousin
Still Unable to Tell People
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Mi Historia
Tormented
No one cares
He was my best friend
Hope for Healing
Raped by a work colleague
He ruined my life
Black Out
Ms.
Twice a pattern?
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Freshman Year
Amusement Park
My Mother Was Raped
Deja Vu
My Mother’s Albatross
I Lost My Virginity
Pretty Girls
Never a Victim; Only Myself
Brock and Will
A Letter To My Abusive Brother
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
In Denial of My Rape
Unknown
So drunk I can’t remember
A Loss to Mankind
Gray area?
I Thought I Knew Hi
Rape
Remember November
Memories Are Back
Hard Time
My Story
Finally Arrested
Seis Años
I Thought I was Safe
Stolen innocence
Domestic rape
I took me 7 years to realize...
Being Raped
HS Reunion
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Drunken Rape
Our Corrupted Country
Not Alone
Stupid Coward
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Miss
עדיין מציק
An Amazing Woman
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I don’t know who I am
Gang Raped
3 Times is Not Charming
Holding My Feelings In
My Story
Restoring Innocence
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
Why Me?
My Multiple-Offender Rape
He Took My Virginity
Life After Death
Party Time
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
I was very dumb.
Darkness With Friends
Couch Surfing
Scared and Confused
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Second Night of College
A Voice to be Heard
ללינור היקרה
I was raped
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Babysitter Abuse
Another Victim
Locked Up
My Modeling Experience
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
My Husband Set Me Up!
No
LOST
My story
I’m tired of hiding what you did
my story
Sexual Abuse
College Student
Raped at age 9 & 15
I Am Brave

Rock It!

לפני 14 שנים
אוףףףף
It Was the Second
The Loss of My Childhood
A Dating Experience and My Parents’ Attack
April 2015
Initiation into adulthood
Family Ties
Rape
Broken
The Stepmonster
Sexual Assault at 11
It’s Been 10 Years
Because of You
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
Sexual assault from my step brother and...
Guilt and Shame Almost Killed
Just Words
Girls Without Parents
Stupid Coward
Cafeteria Food
Raped at 16
The Little Girl in Green and Blue...
The children are the priority here
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Raped By My Neighbour
Cavemen
גבר אלים וחולני
Need help
כמוני כמוך
הסיפור שלי…
I don’t know what happened
Its Got To STOP!
Sexual Assault
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I Trusted Him
I don’t know what to do
J’avais 13 ans
Multiple Times
Multiple Times
Too naïve
Motel 6 Nightmare
Second Date
I Am Still Standing
3 Strikes and No More
why me
My Secret
I Was Just A Baby
Still Think It Was My Fault
I knew and trusted him
Still Going
Sexual Abuse
raped and isolated
Continue to Survive
My Daughter
16 times
He Was Saving Me From Me
Digging my own grave
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Not Really Love
It’s My Fault
I Was Only 7
Just Friends
My Two Days of Hell
My Story
@ years of rape and being drugged
I wanted to get high
Sleep Over
Erase and Rewind
I thought he was my friend
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
My Story, My Nightmare
Sex doll
Was it Really Rape
Sexual harrassment
Was it rape?
A Message from the Director
