#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. Womenโs 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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Raped by a so called friend
By my friend
Molested
I Barely Knew Them
My best friend
I Thought He Loved Me
Why I Am The Way I Am
Out of Control
I Will Never Forget
One week and three days
Mental Breakdown
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
I Am Still Standing
Kidnapped
Someday Soon
He was jealous of my new friend
Raped in my own bed
When I Was 8
A Victim No Longer
Boyfriend Hell
My story growing up with a secret
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
ืืืจ ืืืื ืืืืื ื
So Now What?
When will it be enough?
Trying To Help
There Is Hope For Us
Sex doll
Childhood Friend Date Rape
My Brother’s Best Friend
Prey
Army
The Devil You Know
This Is Me, my fight song
My Step Brother Raped Me
My experience of societal views on victims...
Raped in the Air Force
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Bartender Lies
The cycle
Not My Friend
I don’t Know, but I Know
Rape by Boyfriend
Broken vase
ืืฉ ืืืื ืืืจื ืืื ืก
ืืกืืคืืจ ืฉืื…
Red Flags
my story
ืืืื ืืจ ืืืงืจื
ืืืฃืฃืฃืฃ
Nobody Knew
Ketamine Rape
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
ืืืืจ, ืืืืื, ืื ืฆื
I wish I would have been smarter
Stranger Danger
Date Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Male dancer
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Does the pain ever go away?
Young and Unaware
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
One in Four
It’s Your Fault
Lotus
Chiropractor/Massage Therapist
Am i being raped?
The Touches I Felt
You are going to show me how...
Your truth will change someones’ life.
More Than Half of My Life Ago
my rape
Alcohol
Not A Trustworthy Man
I Was Only 7
Healing in progress
I Came Home
Deep Scars
My Date Rape Story
University Bar
Life of Trauma
Spoke out and was blamed
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
Find Your Strength
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
Just Words
Half sister
Chiropractor
Middle school sexual harassment
Getting Better
People donโt think your spouse can rape...
Keep it to myself
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Jโavais 13 ans
Bringing the Stories to Light
Where is Justice
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Date Rape
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
My Story
I was a victim of serious child...
ืืื
My step dad raped me
ืืืื ื ืืืื
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Touched
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
My Mother’s Albatross
Thank You
LOST
Abusรฉe par un voisin de mes grands...
Because of You
3 Times is Not Charming
When I Was 7
Gang Rape
Halloween Nightmare
I am a Rape Survivor
It Happened More Than Once
It Felt Like Rape
Raped By a Friend
A Girl Who Cried Wolf
Cafeteria Food
Confused
No One Believes Me
So drunk I can’t remember
When Is Rape Actually Rape?
Fell In Love With a Monster
De Los 6 a Los 12
Last Party
The Statistics that Changed Me
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Every Way Imaginable
My Story, My Nightmare
Gang Rape
I Was 16
I Hate My Father
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Throughout my teen years
Less than a Minute of my Life
Bringing the Stories to Light
My Fault or His
Infatuation
ืื ืืืฆืืื ืืื…
Erase and Rewind
Camilla’s Story
Unhealthy Relationship
Unethical or illegal?
Confused
I Am a Survivor…
Living Nightmare
A Part of My Twenties
Survivor

Healing and releasing painful memories
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
Freshman on Campus
I let it happen twice
Sexual Assault Survival
My Ongoing Journey
ืืคื ื 14 ืฉื ืื
Rape
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
Afraid of the Truth
Drunk and Alone
ืืืจืืืื ืืื ืงืฉื ืืืื
incest
A respectable collegue
Sexual Abuse
Marital Rape and the abuser in my...
I am a survivor
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Rape
I Was Only 14
Date Rape
Why Was No Not Enough?
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
First Friend at University
My Story
Warning
Restoring Innocence
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Sexual assault
April 8th, 2016
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Some Friend
Something I’ve Never Shared
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
Me too…
Incapacitated Still
Almost A Stranger
What Happened?
My Untold Story
Too naรฏve
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Becoming a Warrior
I Never Give Up

