#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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I don’t know what to do
Quarterly Review
No More Silence
Last Party
Holiday Rape
Army
I Recorded my Rapist
More Than Once
כמוני כמוך
Almost Raped
Raped By My Father
Mi Historia
So drunk I can’t remember
My teacher and my step-brother
I know when I see a rapist...
Just Words
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Runaway Model
My Mother’s Albatross
How can we make it stop?
Just a Child
Just Playing
Remember November
More Than Once
Off My Shoulders
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I Was 3 Years Old
I Was Manipulated
Blaming Myself
Child sexual abuse
Darkness With Friends
These Men are More Protected Than We...
Almost Raped
One Day At a Time
I Never Give Up

Dad and Uncle Raped Me
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Lost Soul
7 Months
Since Age 6?
I Didn’t Know
3 incidents
Spring Break Nightmare
I don’t know if it counts
Ride from the Concert
The Night That Changed Me
My brother let him in
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
I Need to Tell Someone
My “Step-father”
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Too Trusting
innocent
Raped and Never Forgotten
An Uber Driver Raped Me
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
Lost In Time
I Was 16
First Crush
Virgin Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Because of you
Okay, Not Okay
Abused since I was young
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Happy Survivor
גבר אלים וחולני
היי לינור
Day at the Lake
The Woods Don’t Speak
Teenaged Victims
3 Generations
“I should do this more often”
The pain that was never mine to...
Out For A Walk
PART 1: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Stockholm
“No” is Universal
A Childhood of Sexual Trauma
The Friend
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
April 19th
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Pastor’s Son
Abused By My Father
She Should Be Over It
Thank you
My story
Abuse Continued
Couch Surfing
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
He did it again and again
I Was Only 7
Brock and Will
Ms.
His Masterpiece
My Husband Set Me Up!
Raped At 15
Halting The Pain
Multiple Assaults
The Night That Changed My Life
My Friend
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I Trusted Him
Sexually Assaulted Abroad
Lotus
Second Date
I didn’t know what to do
I Thought He Loved Me
I’m Only Stronger
Mi Esposa
Why you should talk to your daughters...
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Who I Once Called My Father
I was a kid, you were my...
You Were My Friend
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Raped
Everyone loves him
Metoo
Mi Historia
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
היי
עדיין מציק
Just Wanted to Escape
Rape, Sexual Abuse
My rapist sent me a friend request...
I Am Still Standing
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Proud
My Life
It will get better
My Innocence Was Taken Away
When I Was 4
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
3x
Too naïve
A Part of My Twenties
Male dancer
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
The same guy
Spoke out and was blamed
Festival Sexual Assault
Scared and Confused
#IStandWithHer
Black and Blue
De Los 6 a Los 12
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
From Grief to Trauma
I didn’t enderstand what was happening
J’avais 13 ans
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
He Was a Family Friend
I just realized this today.
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Best Friend
you do what you gotta
Forest floor
Sexually Assaulted
Trauma
Realization of Rape
Middle School
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
7th Grade Assault
Way Back in 1973
College Rape
Sexually assulted by coworker
Only I get to make choices for...
People You Do Not Know
13 and 16
לא יוצאים מזה…
When I Was 8 Years Old
Male Rape Victims Suffer in Silence
Twice
6 to 20
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Black Girl
Date Rape
Friends Uncle
An Embarrassing Situation
I tried to bury it for seven...
לפני 14 שנים
What Is Success?
I don’t know anymore
Tormented
A Nightmare
We All Have a Voice
My Army Fiance
My Beloved Man
Why Me Over and Over?
I wish I would have been smarter
I Had No Idea…
Me too
Despedida
We met at the bar
He Was a Friend
What Is Success?
My “Uncle” Raped Me
They thought it was fun
My First Memory
My Ongoing Journey
So Now What?
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Don’t Give Up

