#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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Who I Once Called My Father
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Speaking Out
Sexual Abuse
My Husband Set Me Up!
Young and Unaware
Another kid raped me
Touched
My Life Changed
I’m a functioning alcoholic
My Fight
Raped When I Was 12
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Playing Games
היי
Third time’s the charm
MS13
A respectable collegue
Two Times
It Can Happen To Anyone
יש חיים אחרי אונס
What If I Make You?
Erase and Rewind
Molestation
Too drunk to respond
My Story
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Unknown
I Was Only 7
Being Done
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
Why Me?
In Korea
Scared and Confused
Couldnt Damage My Spirit
Please Rape Me
Broken Girl
J’avais 13 ans
Too Many Times
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
A flat tire is a rapist’s opportunity
My Story
Infatuation
Rape
Broken Girl
Justice
I wanted to get high
Abused at the Age of 4
keep it a secret
אוףףףף
I am More than a Victim
Some Friend
Metoo
Raped By a Female
Silence
My Husband Was My Attacker
“raped” by my long time bf
Unethical or illegal?
I know when I see a rapist...
Finally Arrested
Rape
Naive and Vulnerable
To my best friend who raped me
Ex-Boyfriend
The abuser
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
לא יוצאים מזה…
…
My abuse story victim to survivor
Hurt and Anger
Digging my own grave
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
3 Times is Not Charming
f*ck you
Loss of Trust
Repressed Memory
My Mom
Freshman Year
My best friends dad
First Friend at University
One Day At a Time
Revelations
One Day At a Time
Step Dad
I didn’t enderstand what was happening
Pastor’s Son
I Was Only 7
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Suffered and Survived
My First Time
Healing and releasing painful memories
Just wanted to be loved
My secret
My stepfather
Assaulted
Raped by my Step Brother
A Cruel Time To Prevail
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
My story
My Daughter
Stormy Night
Too naïve
Childhood of assault
My story!
4 Years Ago
The Trauma That Made Me
Cafeteria Food
Dad Raped Me
#MeToo I am 1
Rape and the Aftermath
I Was Only 14
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Breaking the Trust
A Man I Looked To As A...
16 times
Sexual Assault
Summer of ’09
Close of a Brother
I Too Was Raped
Night Out
Online dating
Death before birth
I thought he was a friend
Worst Day Ever
Rape
En Enero de 2010
Was it my fault
Male dancer
I Am A Survivor
גבר אלים וחולני
#IStandWithHer
The Day After My Little Brother’s Birthday
Seis Años
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Hotel
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
It was never…..That
No More Silence
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
לפני 14 שנים
Read This Please
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Metoo
Sexual abuse by step father
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Metoo
I Trusted Him
Finding Words
How it makes me feel 5 years...
Incapacitated Still
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
When will it be enough?
They asked if I was lying
Drug raped
random rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I Thought I was Safe
Pedophile Neighbour
Family
The Statistics that Changed Me
I don’t know anymore
A person to trust became my worst...
you do what you gotta
Justice a Joke
The Worst Feeling
Public Rape
April 2015
Finally Sharing
Blaming Myself
Childhood Friend Date Rape
Getting Away
It wasn’t my fault
Teatime
I “needed” to do this!
Still Think It Was My Fault
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Male Rape Victims Suffer in Silence
Army
Scammer
Let’s Fight Back With Love
My story
Rape??
Shopping-Me too
Never Lose Hope
Raped by Him
Was I Raped?
De Los 6 a Los 12
My Best Friend
An Abnormal Reaction
I Am Beautiful Now
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Life of Trauma
Was It Rape?
Too drunk to respond
Raped by Brother
My Story
A sociopath in disguise
Just a Child
Around 9 PM
My Multiple-Offender Rape
Ex-boyfriend rape
He Was My Dad
I didn’t realise until now
Raped At 16, 29, 31
I don’t know who I am
My Ex-husband
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Spoke out and was blamed
Pretty Girls
He Stole Something From Me
More Than Once
I Trusted Him
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
Neighbor
I Was Nearly Raped
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Twice
Red Flags
Babysitter
Relationship does not equal consent
Was It My Fault?
Sex doll
Taken Advantage
Sexually Assaulted Or Not?
Bad Morning
This is my story
הטרידו אותי
A Lifetime
No
Broken
Raped in the Air Force
Undertones Throughout My Life
Get a bf or I’ll kick you...
Is It Really Rape?
Un-Silenced
Stolen Innocence
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The Night That Changed My Life
Just a Child
So drunk I can’t remember
היי לינור
my story
הסיפור שלי…
Was led by the quarterback
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Nightmare
Enough Is Enough
So Now What?
#IStandWithHer
Summer 2019
7 years and it still controls me
Beyond a story
Smoke Together
Bad Date
Coping with rape during a pandemic
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
Rape
More Than a Survivor
Letter to…
Rape and Not Believed
Mi Historia
Feeling Alone
Is It My Fault?
Was I raped?
Abused for years on and off
Molested by my brother as a child
I Prayed for Death
Still Going
The pain that was never mine to...
Multiple Times
My Best Friends Brother
Raped in College
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
First Date
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Bad Morning
Too scared to tell
Happy Hell-oween
Kidnapped in Naples
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
My Rape Stories
Childhood Rape
Wanted Love But Got Rape
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Six Years of Denial
“Me too” On Facebook
Myself
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Shelter My Soul
A Message from the Director
