#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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Rape !!
Too scared to tell
I Am Not Brave
Not friends
I’ve survived sexual abuse
You were supposed to be my friend
Domestic Rape
Bad Decision
Raped at 17
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Rape
Third time’s the charm
A Victim No Longer
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
In Denial of My Rape
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Erase and Rewind
עדיין מציק
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
I Really Want To Forget About It
Continue to Survive
dad and mom rape
Ex-Boyfriend
I wanted to get high
Was It Me?
Literal Hell
Deserved What I Got
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
My Multiple-Offender Rape
My Own Family
I Slept Next to Him
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
I Was Manipulated
Too naïve
Multiple Times
Be Happy It Only Involves Your Daughter
Why I Hate My Family
Miss
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Will I ever get over it.
אוףףףף
Shelter My Soul
7 Months
My Daughter and I Both
I was carrying his daughter.
Ex
Summer 2019
My story and this amazing documentary film
Hateful
Every Way Imaginable
3 Generations
Infatuation
A Stong Woman
Such Shame
Miss
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
It’s my fault
I Thought He Was My Friend
My Daughter and I Both
Violent Rape
Sexual harassment
Was I Raped?
My Story, My Nightmare
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
I Thought I Knew Hi
Party Accident
J’avais 13 ans
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Gang Rape
I am not a rape victim
Football Player
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
היי
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
First boyfriend raped me when i was...
First Crush
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
I Didn’t Want to Do It
לפני 14 שנים
Six Year Old’s Point of View
Frozen in fear
It’s Been 10 Years
My story growing up with a secret
My Story
A Different MeToo
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Under Age drinking
The Park
Rape Girl
Age 6 abused
My First Boyfriend
Enough Is Enough
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Myself
Rape
Over 40 years Ago
An Abnormal Reaction
my story
There once was love
Family Ties
Rape Is Everywhere
Sexual Abuse
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Sex doll
Raped as a Young Boy
I’m Alive
I will never forget
God Saved Me
Pregnancy
My rapist sent me a friend request...
I Blame Myself
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Why
Rape, Sexual Abuse
The cycle
#IStandWithHer
Not A Trustworthy Man
Molested
Multiple Times
The Worst Feeling
More Than Half of My Life Ago
He was my best friend
My Own Street
Youth Sexual Harrassment
4th of July
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Years later… meeting my rapist again
I Am A Survivor
I was raped
Married My Rapist
Why Me Over and Over?
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Ended in Rape
He was jealous of my new friend
To the men who hurt me
Almost Raped
What’s Done Is Done
I don’t Know, but I Know
Finally Arrested
Abused by another child
Rude awakening
Not Over It
It Was My Fault
Don’t Want to Anymore
Raped as a Baby
Mi Esposa
היי לינור
My Life
Ms.
April 2015
It Wasn’t Love
Impact of Screening
My Scars Do Not Define Me
My First Two Times
Gang Rape
When Will This Nightmare End
Rape
Impacted Forever
Dear Coward
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Aftermath
My Story
Middle school sexual harassment
The Power of Victimization
I Trusted Him
כמוני כמוך
Sexually abused by a 11/12 girl
I Really Want To Forget About It
My Friend’s House
Parental Incest Is Rape
Leaving the party
Constant fear
Still Haunts
Raped by my boyfriend
Drugged
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
i said yes but i really meant...
When Father’s Day is Painful
Did He Rape Me?
Gang Rape
My Childhood
I Was Only 14
Dream / Recall
Married to Abuser
De Los 6 a Los 12
My Story
Sexual Assault
This will be painful
My Daughter
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
To the men who hurt me
I Said No
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
My case is different from yours
One Day At a Time
Rude awakening
I know when I see a rapist...
My Daughter
You were supposed to be my friend
I Recorded my Rapist
My Secret
לא יוצאים מזה…
My Brothers Two Best Friends
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Not Okay
Stolen Innocence
It Started with my Brother
Child Molestation
Mi Historia
The Party I Will Never Forget
End of Innocence
That Night
I Am Still Standing
Was it my fault
Acceptance
Male dancer
My Story
Party Accident
This Is My Story
En Enero de 2010
When tears and no aren’t the answer
I Remember Being Happy
Loss of Innocence
Rape
My Last Party
A respectable collegue
My Beloved Man
incest
Raped by a US Marine when I...
הטרידו אותי
We were drunk
Naive College Freshman
More Than Once
Holiday Rape
It never stopped
יש חיים אחרי אונס
You are with me!!
Lightening Does Strike Twice
The Wolf and His Rabbit
Scammer
The Hole in My Heart
I’m Doing You a Favor
#MeToo I am 1
Never Wanted to Believe
Despedida
Sleepraping
Spoke out and was blamed
Raped in the Air Force
The Statistics that Changed Me
Third time’s the charm
Too naïve
Victim of Abuse
Growing Past Just Surviving
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Finally ready to tell my story
It was in a society that told...
So drunk I can’t remember
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Just Words
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Relationship does not equal consent
Effort To Survive
Raped in College
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Repressed Memory
Only I get to make choices for...
Close of a Brother
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
My Rape
37 Years Ago
It’s Been Eight Years
הסיפור שלי…
I Didn’t Want to Do It
I need some advice
weird brother
ללינור היקרה
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Rape of My Partner
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Does the pain ever go away?
Rape
College Campus Rape
Senior Trip
Abusive Relationship
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Nashville Sweetheart
I Never understood
My story
Healing and releasing painful memories
Too Trusting
Ashamed
Unethical or illegal?
Does he know?
Marital Rape
Cruel Kids
Kibbutz
Too naïve
Still Terrified
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
My experience as an intern in highschool
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
I Repressed Everything… Until Now
גבר אלים וחולני
I Am Brave
