#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.
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Friends?
STRONG
Brock and Will
My principal mom raped me
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Trapped with memories
Metoo
Set Up
The Course of Seven Years
Okay, Not Okay
Too much trauma
My Journey Back to Life
My Fight
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Why Me Over and Over?
Seis Años
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
It Was My Mom
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
כמוני כמוך
Still Haven’t Healed
Letter to…
Sexual Assault
Stalker
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Frozen in fear
Father, Brother, Brother
Surviving, Kinda
Learning to Live With My Rape
Prom’s ideals
I wanted to get high
Becoming a Warrior
When will it be enough?
Just Wanted to Escape
My Daughter and I Both
Sexually assaulted as a young girl
Multiple Rapes
Under Age drinking
Molestation and Rape Survivor/Warrior
A Close Call With Family
Touched
It just happened
הסיפור שלי…
surviving rape from my dad
Cruel Kids
Happy Birthday
Amber’s Story
Unethical or illegal?
Lost In Time
I thought he was a brother
LOST
My Rape
I Felt So Helpless
Drugged
Sexual Assault
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
How I Was Raped
Doctor Nightmares
Pregnancy
Rape by Boyfriend
3 incidents
The cycle
What Happened?
16 times
Mrs
Stranger Danger
Abused by another child
A respectable collegue
Help
I know when I see a rapist...
Too naïve
Why Me?
All Rape Is Legitimate Rape
My 21st Birthday
Taken Advantage
Roommates
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Sexual Coercion
Flashbacks
More Than Once
With Love
My 21st Birthday
There Is Hope For Us
it was 1 am
My Tramatic Experience
I regret not telling
…
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
So drunk I can’t remember
Am I really that broken?
my story
Family Rape
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Harassment
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Army
HS Reunion
Was I Raped?
17
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
A Big Man
לא יוצאים מזה…
Life of Trauma
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Date Rape
Extreme Blessings
Family members ex husband
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Rape Is Everywhere
Memories
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
The Girl Who Went To College
Happy Survivor
אוףףףף
Afraid of Being Judged
Someday Soon
Your First
First boyfriend raped me when i was...
With Love
לפני 14 שנים
My Life in Foster Care
How Many Times?
Rape & Sexual Assault
I Prayed for Death
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
Used
Summer 2019
My best friend
Over 40 years Ago
Gang Raped
i was a child.
Sexual Assault
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Unsure
Rape
My Past
There is hope
Raped in Milan
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Raped Three Times
Betrayed By My Own Mind
I was raped and didn’t know
The Power of Victimization
Hurt and Anger
Two times. One year.
Happy Birthday
Naive
My Side
Catching Up With Me
Being Done
My First Two Times
What Should I Do?
Third time’s the charm
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
The Aftermath
I’m tired of hiding what you did
My story and this amazing documentary film
Aftermath
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Childhood End
School Bathroom
Raped and Molested
I Am Still Standing
My Evil Cousins
My Story
Noah
Erase and Rewind
Male dancer
Child sex abuse
sexually abused
My story
Gang rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Darkness With Friends
About Being Raped
Naive girl
Ride from the Concert
I Thought I was Safe
ללינור היקרה
Mi Esposa
Never Again
Why Me?
Hiding from the Weather
Too drunk to respond
Rape Is Everywhere
There are a lot of assholes on...
Forever Changed
Almost Raped
Feels like i am drowning
Gross
Assaulted
Remember November
Wrong Choice
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
The Night That Changed My Life
Never Be the Same Again
This Is Me, my fight song
Broken Girl
En Enero de 2010
More Witness than I Care to Live...
A Private College; A Private Rape
He Was a Friend
Halloween Nightmare
Ms.
Rape
Forgotten Memories Submerge
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Drunken Rape
Confused
Not Okay
In Denial of My Rape
I Was Only 14
Six Years of Denial
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Leaving the party
Ex
Let’s Fight Back With Love
He Took My Virginity
Sexual Abuse
Night of Psychedelic Horror
He had my pants down
My Mother’s Albatross
Too Afraid To Tell
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
Males can be victims too
Rape & Sexual Assault
Black and Blue
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
I can’t remember before it started
Nearly 50 years later
Sexual Assault Survival
lucky
I Just Started High School
Innocence
Devil In Disguise
My Story
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Rape
Date Raped
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Raped in the Air Force
Rape
It is not my fault
Letter to…
Short Story
Sex doll
היי לינור
Camp rape
Second Date
It had to be my fault.
Scar
Identity?
My Boyfriend Raped Me
My Life
My story growing up with a secret
Once Again
גבר אלים וחולני
Six months in the making..
I Am Beautiful Now
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I was raped and I didnt know...
Abused By a Relative
Lost Soul
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I don’t know who I am
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Ruined
2 Years Ago
Still Lost :/
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I said no
Years later… meeting my rapist again
I was 13
Myself
Still Unable to Tell People
עדיין מציק
My Ex-husband
Still Haunts
הטרידו אותי
“raped” by my long time bf
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
היי
Is There Still Hope
Help!! What Can I Do?
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
The Cliche
Drugged After Junior Prom
Does “No” mean nothing?
Young and Unaware
Drugged
To my best friend who raped me
I buried the pain
Drunken rape
It will get better
No Stranger
Raped as a Young Boy
De Los 6 a Los 12
Just Words
Manipulation
Spoke out and was blamed
Remember as a victim you have done...
Still Terrified
I Was Only 7
Survivor
I said YES
Breaking the Silence
