#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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Rape
Broken Homes, Broken Families
Don’t Know
A Co-Worker
I was 8 years old
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Forced, De-flowered
Why Me Over and Over?
Life Changed
Unhealthy Relationship
Myself
Spoke out and was blamed
Party Time
Continue to Survive
Freshman on Campus
A Literal Fight
I was born for this
Different face, but the same monster
My Ex-husband
My Friend’s House
Domestic rape
Innocence
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Abuse and Rape
Dead Inside
Holiday Rape
Drugged
A Co-Worker
Growing Past Just Surviving
Rape and Not Believed
Student Exchange
Summer 2019
I’m Speaking Out!
אוףףףף
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
Father Figure
גבר אלים וחולני
היי
A person to trust became my worst...
My life changed on the day I...
Was It Rape?
I was very dumb.
Disappointed
No Justice
My Own Family
Ignoring only gets so far
My Daughter’s Story
Not Sure It Happened
Raped in the Air Force
College Student
My Own Street
Too naïve
Still Confused
The reason for my tattoo
Life Changer
Raped at the Air Force Academy
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
I lost all the important people in...
Male dancer
My Year in Hell
Only I get to make choices for...
Mi Esposa
Multiple Times
Hateful
I was a child
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
My Step Brother
An Abnormal Reaction
Forced to Have Sex with My Boyfriend
Not A Trustworthy Man
Not Blood Cousins
It’s my fault
Tormented
Piano Teacher
Girls Without Parents
That Night
Every Time I Said “No”
Raped by jail guard
My experience as an intern in highschool
I was 11
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A Stong Woman
An Embarrassing Situation
I was raped by my step dad
Tulane Law
Unethical or illegal?
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
April 19th
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
7 Sisters
Hidden But Not Forgotten
Seeing My Rapist Everday
My Modeling Experience
Patient People
So Long Ago But Still With Me
My boyfriend of 2 years
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Rape
I just wanted a friend
Breaking the Silence
Politeness Serves No One
En Enero de 2010
I Thought I Was Safe
Freshman Year
Blamed myself …
Ignored For a Lifetime
Was it my fault?
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
I Need to Tell Someone
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Ms.
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
They asked if I was lying
Ashly’s story
Childhood Rape
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
You were supposed to be my friend
Dirty Whore
It’s my fault
Hated Myself
3 Times is Not Charming
Is It Really Rape?
7 years and it still controls me
Mi Historia
Raped and Numbed
Rape
Just Words
The Touches I Felt
Raped At 15
J’avais 13 ans
Believe Her
Hospitalized
Repeat Offender
Feeling Lost
Rape
Made in America
My Side
A young mother
I Thought He Loved Me
But I Was Drunk
3x
I wish I would have been smarter
Half sister
He Was a Cop
06.05.2006
היי לינור
LOST
The Most Vivid Distant Memories
Too Far
I Was Only 7
5 Years On
I Trusted Him…
23 year old virgin
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Date Rape
Sex doll
Not Another Moment
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
I think my “boyfriend” raped me
I was 17 and survived
Sharing #MeToo’s
Abuse and Rape
How Many Times?
So Now What?
Unethical or illegal?
Just Friends
The Same Effect
Family
I Hate You
Rock It!

dad and mom rape
Is It My Fault?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Everyone loves him
my story
Raped by Him
Army
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Halting The Pain
הטרידו אותי
Child rape
Man Raped By Man
My Biggest Secret
Sexual Assault
De Los 6 a Los 12
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
In Denial of My Rape
I Came Home
Too temping, I guess
Is There Still Hope
Raped
Was it rape?
Raped by a US Marine when I...
Step Daddy
Drunken Rape
Every Way Imaginable
Brother & Sister
To my best friend who raped me
A Message from the Director
