#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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How My Life Has Changed
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Rape
5th Grade
Sexual Abuse
I wish she wouldve helped me
My best friends dad
Childhood Rape
All Just Too Much
Once? Twice? Five Times?
I Need to Tell Someone
Finally Arrested
Extremely Terrified
why me
Army
Set Up
I Was 16
Ms.
Molested
Victim Shaming
Incest & Date Rape
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Forever Silent
The Boys Club Continues
It is not my fault
I know when I see a rapist...
No
Stolen Innocence
An Abnormal Reaction
Male dancer
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Realization of Rape
Rape survivor
No one cared until I made them
Raped by Him
Still Unable to Tell People
The pain that was never mine to...
Afraid of the Truth
One week and three days
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Was It Real or Not
Forced, De-flowered
Start of grooming at 15
7 Months
Confused for Too Long
High School Orientation
Close of a Brother
Lasting memories
Too naïve
Sex doll
He used me. He left me.
I wish I would have been smarter
My experience of societal views on victims...
Why Me?
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Enough Is Enough
Sexual assault/ sex trafficking
כמוני כמוך
My principal mom raped me
Was I Raped?
There Is Hope For Us
With Love
He Loved Me
הטרידו אותי
No Justice
My Brother
Letter to My Rapist
So Young
An Unknown Face & Hands
I was a kid, you were my...
Siblings
Who I Once Called My Father
A Week Before 18th Birthday
It Wasn’t Love
I Am Still Standing
Dear Coward
They asked if I was lying
Raped as a Boy
J’avais 13 ans
I Didn’t See It In Time
Scars
My Innocence Was Taken Away
To the man who stole my independence
Family
Once Again
My life changed on the day I...
It Started With Rape
University Bar
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Thank you for being LOUD!
7 years and it still controls me
Raped By My Father
No one owns your story but you
I was very dumb.
To my best friend who raped me
Everyone loves him
Myself
I am not a rape victim
גבר אלים וחולני
לפני 14 שנים
Raped by stranger x2
Online Dangers
Multiple Times
Unwanted Flashbacks
My step dad raped me
“No” is Universal
Touched
Being Done
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Charity is it’s own reward
Welcome To Adulthood
Mi Historia
Even Lawyers Get Raped
Middle school sexual harassment
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
My Stepdad Molested Me
I Was 20
I Saved Myself
Raped After School
Drugged
My Story
Bad Decisions
Home from School
Erase and Rewind
הסיפור שלי…
More Than a Survivor
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
I’m Only Stronger
My case is different from yours
I was 13, he was my first...
Piano Teacher
אוףףףף
Letter to…
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Was I assaulted?
Is It Really Rape?
Who Is To Blame?
Multiple Times
היי
Acquaintance Rape
My Story
Raped by jail guard
A Family Affair
Dad Raped Me
3 incidents
The Same Effect
Rape
My stepfather raped me
It Was My Mom
Brock and Will
Why me?
He Was My Family
Shattered Childhood
Teenage Victim
College Student
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
Raped by ex boyfriend
Masked Boyfriend
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Rape
Finally facing it
Friends are sharing
Anywhere I Go
Rape
My Snowball Effect
Date Rape
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
21
Rape
Quarterly Review
A Letter
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
First College Party
I Am Brave
