#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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What Happened?
Who is Responsible?
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
My story growing up with a secret
You Were My Friend
Atlantis
Mi Historia
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Night Out
Mi Esposa
I Own My Story
My Life
Date Raped
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Drunken rape
Erase and Rewind
Remembering
Dream / Recall
Stranger
Holding It In
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Rape
Rape
Kidnapped
Why Me, Time and Time Again
My best friend
Stronger Every Day
My Story.
No
The Night My Life Changed
Spoke out and was blamed
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Multiple Times
Robbery
En Enero de 2010
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
I Prayed for Death
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Frozen in fear
LOST
Freshman Year
Almost A Stranger
First Time
Say Something
My Ex-husband
I Didn’t Even Know
Suffered and Survived
A letter to my rapist
Me & My Girlfriend
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Seis Años
My Year in Hell
My Uncle
Date Rape
I Am Beautiful Now
So Now What?
The Beginning
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Rape
surviving rape from my dad
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I was raped
College Student
My Story
It will get better
Glitter Girl, Gone.
True View
Shout Out
Abusive Relationship
Innocence
Rape survivor
Politeness Serves No One
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Just Fine
They Laughed
הטרידו אותי
Rape and the Aftermath
Drugged
My Friend’s House
A Memory That Came Back
Thought He Was A Friend
I was just 9.
I Didn’t Let It Kill Me
Happy Birthday
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
Locked Up
His Masterpiece
Was it Really Rape
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
Ms.
Locked Up
Losing Myself
Gang Rape
Surviving, Kinda
Love of My Life?
repeatedly
Still Lost :/
I Thought I Knew Hi
How Many Times?
My Friend
My best friend raped me
My Life
Myself
The Night That Changed My Life
The Statistics that Changed Me
גבר אלים וחולני
I Didn’t See It In Time
J’avais 13 ans
A Night I Will Never Forget
People You Do Not Know
I was born for this
Chiropractor
Unethical or illegal?
I Thought I Was Safe
Multiple Times
‘Were you drinking?’
Almost A Stranger
Because of you
Blaming Myself
My Safe Place
LOST
I thought he was my friend
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
He was jealous of my new friend
What sent me over the edge
The Terrible 4
Piece
To protect and serve
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Tulane Law
my story
Mistaken Identity
He used me. He left me.
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
40 years
Rape
A Voice to be Heard
Repressed Memory
To My Rapist
Raped as a Boy
An Abnormal Reaction
Army
They asked if I was lying
I Don’t Even Know
Weak
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Rape without remorse
Too naïve
Just Words
Continue to Survive
Abuse and Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Time To Tell
My Horrific Nightmare
Out For A Walk
So drunk I can’t remember
When will it be enough?
Hundreds of Times
Started With My Father
I Was Just A Baby
עדיין מציק
Shelter My Soul
The Party
Rape
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
A Lifetime
I Told Him No
Shout Out
Survivor

My Story
Virgin Rape
Summer 2019
My Daughter
Never Even Knew
Shattered Childhood
I Am a Survivor…
Family rape
The Story Of Two Rapes
Lost in Europe
Ride from the Concert
Playing House
Online dating
Such Shame
Spousal Rape
Tormented
Quarterly Review
My Boyfriend Raped Me
My Innocence Was Taken Away
Since Age 6?
Home from School
My Best Friend’s Brother
היי לינור
I Blame Myself
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
With Love
13 and 16
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Manipulation
Not all friends are true
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Festival Sexual Assault
Friends are sharing
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
Rape
Why Me Over and Over?
Raped at a Birthday Party
I Thought I was Safe
I am not a rape victim
Doctor Nightmares
Relationship does not equal consent
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Raped by a so called friend
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Myself
If I Were Stronger Then
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
My Snowball Effect
My First Two Times
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
Second Date
Scammer
כמוני כמוך
Fenced In
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
Assaulted
Not Okay
היי
Spoke out and got fired
I was 14
That’s not what friend means
So Many Times
Date rape
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
Dear Coward
4th grade
ITS BEEN 18 YEARS
Afraid of Being Judged
Bringing the Stories to Light
Male dancer
I Was Only 7
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Rock It!

I Choose Hope

