#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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Raped By Family
Happy Survivor
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
A respectable collegue
Grandpa
My Relationship With Dad
Unsure
A Ruined Life
So drunk I can’t remember
An Abnormal Reaction
Almost A Stranger
לא יוצאים מזה…
Stolen innocence
My Best Friend & His Friend Raped...
Does the pain ever go away?
I know when I see a rapist...
He Took My Virginity
Repressed Memory
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
היי לינור
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
3 years later i still wonder if...
My Story
It’s Been Eight Years
I Felt So Helpless
Help!! What Can I Do?
My Mother’s Albatross
Brothers
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Just A Party
Ms.
I am a Survivor
Raped By 6 Men
My Story
The Little Girl in Green and Blue...
The Statistics that Changed Me
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Perfect on Paper
Tulane Law
There once was love
45 Years of Being the Victim
Unethical or illegal?
Rape Is Everywhere
Sexually abused by my step brothers
raped by my own brother
My husband was molested as a child
Not Another Moment
My Army Fiance
The Hole in My Heart
Remember November
Rape and the Aftermath
Student Exchange
Army
I was raped for 3 years
Close of a Brother
Molested by Cousin
Sex doll
Not Guilty
She Should Be Over It
He raped me. I hugged him goodbye...
2 Years Ago
Date Rape
Life of Trauma
Lasting Effects
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Myself
Child sexual abuse
Just Another Night
Trusted Friend
Liar, Liar
Shelter My Soul
They Laughed
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
He Stole Something From Me
He Was a Cop
Almost Does Not Count
But what really happened?
J’avais 13 ans
My Step Brother Raped Me
Molestation
4 Years Ago
“Me too” On Facebook
I still feel “crazy”
Are you sure?
Innocence
“raped” by my long time bf
He Was My Friend
So Now What?
ללינור היקרה
Was it rape?
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
With Love
Night of Psychedelic Horror
אוףףףף
Domestic Rape
Incapacitated Still
Raped
Despedida
De Los 6 a Los 12
Just Like Yesterday
Justice
My Fight
What If I Make You?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I was too young to know what...
Scars
Still Terrified
Mental Breakdown
Raped By a Friend
Grooming
Friends?
Sexual Coercion
Rude awakening
Mi Esposa
Young and Unaware
לפני 14 שנים
Spoke out and was blamed
Rape
Child sex abuse
Grandpa Molested me
Protecting My Predator
Black Out
My Life
The same guy
I Feel So Betrayed
Salted Wound
Not normal
My husband raped me when I took...
En Enero de 2010
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
It still doesn’t feel real…
It Was the Second
Trapped
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
I was raped
Just Another Night
I’m Still Here… Wish For Peace
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
What’s Done Is Done
I forgot, but then I remembered
Survivor, Still Struggling
Healing takes time
Sleepraping
Male dancer
Uncomfortable
The Man in Uniform
Raped in College
The Fight We Can All Win
Twice
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
עדיין מציק
Not Really Family
Lasting memories
Raped by best friend’s boyfriend
When I Was 8 Years Old
I didn’t fight back.
The Pastor of My Church
Rape
Don’t Want to Anymore
Worthless
Breaking the Silence
Rape
My Uncle
Forced, De-flowered
Not Really Family
Still Can’t Believe It
Hateful
Attempt to Rape
Scared and Confused
I loved him
Siblings
Raped at a Birthday Party
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Erase and Rewind
There Is Hope For Us
I loved him
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Why Me?
Circumstances Collided That Night
Ex
So Now What?
Why Me?
Knowledge is Power
When I Was 8
Broken Homes, Broken Families
My story growing up with a secret
I Thought I Knew Hi
A young mother
My Brother
Too Close for Comfort
7 years and it still controls me
Family
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
The Wolf and His Rabbit
Too naïve
My Past
Your First
Remember November
Too Young
He Never Apologized
Gang rape and further sexual assaults
היי
All Just Too Much
Multiple Times
Growing Past Just Surviving
School Prom
Childhood Abuse
Just Words
Two times. One year.
I Trusted Him…
Bad Decisions
Violated
My Story
Nothing important…
My survival story
Can’t Believe I’m Doing This
Embrace It All
I Said No
Survivor
My younger brother
Proud
Sexual Assault
Mi Historia
Sexual Abuse
Mistaken Identity
גבר אלים וחולני
One Night Only
The pain that was never mine to...
I Am Brave
My Story
I Didn’t Know
Be Strong
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
Raped
He did it again and again
Date Raped When I Was 15
Fraternity Men
Sexual Assault
Multiple Times
The First Time
The Life I Live
Incest
Sexual Assault
My Last Party
23 year old virgin
Rape and Crisis
A Nightmare
Spousal Rape
My Religious Teacher
My Story
כמוני כמוך
Too Trusting
The Boys Club Continues
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Sexual Abuse
I regret not telling
Piano Teacher
A letter to the monster
sexual assault & abuse
I Was Only 14
Beyond a story
Him or Me
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
My best friend
Stranger Rape
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Being Raped
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Never Got His Name
Summer 2019
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Braver
