#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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ללינור היקרה
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Can Someone Help Me!
Army
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Raped at 16
A respectable collegue
Un-Silenced
To the men who hurt me
My best friend
Rape & Sexual Assault
A familiar fight
Invictus
Just Another Night
My First Memory
I Am Still Standing
I don’t know what happened
I regret not telling
Drugged and Gang Raped
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
The Power of Victimization
Left Me In Pieces
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Still Terrified
My First Boyfriend
Is There Still Hope
Molested By My Step Brother
My best friend raped me
Don’t Want to Anymore
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Impacted Forever
Still Lost :/
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
I am a survivor
The Mailman Raped Me
Just Words
Three Times in a Row
Ms.
Once Again
Rape
Continue to Survive
היי
הסיפור שלי…
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Erase and Rewind
My husband was molested as a child
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
I Thought He Loved Me
Woke up violated and confused.
My experience of societal views on victims...
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Summer 2019
Okay, Not Okay
No Wasn’t Good Enough
My Two Rapes
Roommates
Was it rape?
Molestation
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Forgiving My Rapist
Rape
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Why Me Over and Over?
Sexually assulted by coworker
It Was My Mom
Secret overload
Ketamine Rape
First “Real” Boyfriend
De Los 6 a Los 12
Remembering
Just Another Night
Male dancer
I Barely Knew Them
Over 40 years Ago
Nashville Sweetheart
Please Allow Me To Be Heard
My Story
Don’t Be Me
My Army Fiance
I want to Call it what it...
My Year in Hell
I can say it now
Was I Raped?
27 Hours
My Friend
Sex doll
my story
Family
Remember November
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Sexual Abuse
Gang Rape
I didn’t say no
I can’t keep quiet anymore
Living Nightmare
Now It’s Too Late
I Am Finally FREE
Hospitalized
My Religious Teacher
Seis Años
It was never…..That
Sexual Assault
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
School Rape
Deja Vu
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I Too Was Raped
Politeness Serves No One
My story growing up with a secret
Not Alone
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
LOST
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
לפני 14 שנים
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
I still don’t know what happened
My Beloved Man
Life of Trauma
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Cavemen
Since Age 6?
My Step Brother
First Time
Empty
The Other Guy
Do you remember your first time?
Call Me Anything But That
Raped in the Air Force
Ashly’s story
My Life Changed
Despedida
Once? Twice? Five Times?
Rock It!

We Live Part of Hell on Earth
It Happened More Than Once
I know when I see a rapist...
I Thought I Knew Hi
School Rape
So Long Ago But Still With Me
Being Raped
April 19th
My Rape Story
rape
A Stong Woman
Twice
Rape
גבר אלים וחולני
Myself
Naive girl
Circumstances Collided That Night
Do NOT Trust Strangers
So Many Years to Remember
Too Young
My Story, My Nightmare
Breaking Trust
2 Strangers
Raped by my cousin
Bringing the Stories to Light
Not normal
אוףףףף
Working Through It
I Did NOT Get Justice But I...
Raped Three Times
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
My Step Brother Raped Me
I thought we were friends
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Why me?
The Park
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
Survivor

Family
I let it happen twice
Didn’t Know I Had Been Raped
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
My Last Party
Only 12
I Prayed for Death
Raped at the Air Force Academy
21
Date Raped When I Was 15
Did He Rape My Mind Too
New Years Eve Party
Ritual Sexual Abuse
My childhood
Closure
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
A Life of Pain
הטרידו אותי
Warning
He said he loved me
Babysitter Abuse
One Day At a Time
Weak
Bringing the Stories to Light
Spoke out and was blamed
Survivor, Still Struggling
Suffered and Survived
Darkness With Friends
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
כמוני כמוך
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
Mi Historia
I Don’t Know My Story
Afraid of Being Judged
Confused
My Fight
I am a survivor
My Side
Why
Marital Rape
Beyond a story
Years later… meeting my rapist again
I don’t know what to do
God Saved Me
Kibbutz
A Man I Looked To As A...
Rape inside marriage is still rape…
Messed Up
Too naïve
Raped by a work colleague
silent rape
Tormented
The Life I Live
I was too young to know what...
*rape
Friends?
I was raped
The Statistics that Changed Me
Sexual Assault
Prescription Drugs
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Date Rape Drug
I still see him on campus
My Story
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Never Again
Stolen Innocence
I Thought I Could Trust Him
I didn’t even know what was happening
I’m Only Stronger
5 years now
It can happen to boys too!
Only I get to make choices for...
Drugged
Teenage Victim
With Love
My message to all
I Was Only 7
But I Was Drunk
My Story
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Off My Shoulders
Who is Responsible?
I thought I trusted them
Bad Morning
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
He ruined my life
Unhealthy Relationship
sexual assault & abuse
I was a child
College Professor
My Healing Journey
Identity?
My Brothers Two Best Friends
Make Me Proud
Unethical or illegal?
I Am Beautiful Now
My Girlfriend of Two Years
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Why Me?
He said he’d never do it again
Living With Us
Stranger Rape
Six months in the making..
היי לינור
Still Can’t Believe It
Relationship does not equal consent
Betrayal
Don’t Give Up

