#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.
Contact us here: producers@BraveMissWorld.com
Watch the Emmy-nominated Brave Miss World on…
Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80222025
iTunes: http://apple.co/1Og611n
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B0194BJ5MO
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bravemissworld
I Barely Knew Them
April 8th, 2016
He’s Still Out There
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
So drunk I can’t remember
#MeToo, too
Over 40 years Ago
“Trust me, take a chance”
I Was Manipulated
Its Got To STOP!
Sleep Over
Blaming Myself
Raped By 6 Policemen
13 and 16
יש חיים אחרי אונס
First Love to Long Term Abuse
06.05.2006
3x
Football Player
When will it be enough?
Be Careful Who You Trust
Shout Out
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Surviving sexual assault trauma
A respectable collegue
Second Night of College
Drugged raped and failed by justice
My Two Days of Hell
Everyone loves him
Summer 2019
3x
Losing my virginity
Undertones Throughout My Life
Ashly’s story
So Now What?
The Mailman Raped Me
my toxic relationship
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
What Was I Thinking?
Ready to Share
Abused by the boyfriend of my mom...
A Day My Life Changed Forever
I Was Only 7
Light In The Dark
First College Party
Raped After School
I Trusted Him
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
My Rape
#IStandWithHer
25 years of fear
Survivor

Black Girl
My Rape
Mi Historia
It never stops changing you
In NYC
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I’m Disgusted
היי לינור
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Touched
Molested
I Was Raped
Despedida
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Incest & Date Rape
why me
Speaking Up for Women
Too much trauma
Black and Blue
Violent Rape
My story
my story-and where i “took it”…
My best friend
It started with you.
Losing My Virginity
army
Erase and Rewind
No Stranger
An older, popular boy
Healing in progress
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
Memories Are Back
Dating For 10 Months When…
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
My Story, My Nightmare
Drugged
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
עדיין מציק
So Alone
The Night My Life Changed
It’s My Fault
My Mother’s Albatross
An older cousin
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Rape, Sexual Abuse
My Ex-husband
לפני 14 שנים
הטרידו אותי
Still Unable to Tell People
A Story
Don’t Be Me
Multiple Times
Love and Forced abortion
Dirty Whore
Family Rape
Don’t Want to Anymore
Sex doll
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Lost in Europe
The Boys Club Continues
Never Got Over It
No one owns your story but you
I was molested and raped at 6
Just Violated
He used me. He left me.
Army
Why: A Poem About My Rape
School Bathroom
Victim No More
We Stand Together
My Snowball Effect
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
I thought he liked me
So Now What?
Graduation Night
two years ago
My Year in Hell
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Life Purpose
What Is Happening
My Step Brother
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Rape
J’avais 13 ans
I Don’t Trust My Father
Weathering The Storm
Myself
He Was My Best Friend
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I wanted to get high
Survivor
Hotel
Memories
Choir Camp
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Glitter Girl, Gone.
4th grade
Just Words
Another kid raped me
Freshman on Campus
A Message from the Director
