#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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I think my “boyfriend” raped me
Bus Ride Of Missing Hope
Wrong Choice
עדיין מציק
People You Do Not Know
Light In The Dark
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
The Story Of Two Rapes
Being Raped
Twice
What Is Success?
Scar
A Wolf Hidden In Sheeps Clothing
I dont know what to call it
i was 5 , 12 , 13...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
We Stand Together
Just Friends
Last Party
Why Me Over and Over?
I was raped last summer
Uncomfortable
In Korea
A Letter to My Rapist
Repressed Memory
The First Time
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Raped Multiple Times
my story
So Now What?
Not friends
Raped Twice and Attempted Rape Once No...
Be Careful Who You Trust
Naive
What Happened?
Don’t Know
My Two Rapes
Just Words
So drunk I can’t remember
I Was Only 14
Almost A Stranger
I Didn’t Know
Nothing for Nothing
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
היי לינור
Holiday Rape
Incapacitated Still
75 Percent Humidity
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped When I Was 12
Constant fear
Sex doll
Weak
Disappointed
To the men who hurt me
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
Family
Unforgiven
My Friend
Today, I Let It All Go
Diana Oakley’s Story
It is not my fault
My Own Brother
My Best Friend
f*ck you
#IAmBrave and together, #WeAreStrong
Friends?
College Rape
Myself
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Rape
In Five Years
Shout Out
Trapped In a Fantasy World
היי
Gang Rape At 15 Years Old
I was raped
The Other Guy
7th Grade Assault
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The healing process
My Friend’s House
Left Me In Pieces
Throughout my teen years
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Sharing again
Friend of mines set me up
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Not just me
No Wasn’t Good Enough
My principal mom raped me
Thank You
He Was A Police Officer
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Remember November
I didn’t wish it to happen
ללינור היקרה
The Cliche
15
Rape
In-Between Times
Lost Soul
Sexual Abuse
I’m Sorry if Assaulting Me Hurt You
Since Age 6?
Summer 2019
Date Rape
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Not safe in my own skin
What Was It?
I Really Want To Forget About It
He was my best friend
21
My Rape
כמוני כמוך
When tears and no aren’t the answer
Afraid of the Truth
Halting The Pain
Repressed Memory
Betrayed By My Husband
Braver

Date Rape
My Story
I Don’t Trust My Father
Spoke out and was blamed
Now I Understand My Husband
Today, I Let It All Go
Teatime
A Meek Young Girl
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
Thought He Was A Friend
Football Player
Raped in the Air Force
No Support
הטרידו אותי
I was just 9.
I regret not telling
Surpris à la Maison
Nobody Knows
Seis Años
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
יש חיים אחרי אונס
A letter to my rapist
Multiple Rape
Quiet for 2 years
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Sexually assaulted as a young girl
Virgin Rape
Growing Past Just Surviving
I Was Prepared
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Rape
Way Back in 1973
I am a survivor
Had Her Back
Gang Rape
J’avais 13 ans
Still Terrified
Black and Blue
הסיפור שלי…
Confused and Angry
My Own Party
Relationship does not equal consent
I Was a Child
Lightening Does Strike Twice
My Story
Letter to My Rapist
Holding My Feelings In
My Story, My Nightmare
The secret
Just a Kid
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Last Party
One week and three days
When Will This Nightmare End
Still Rape
No Comfort
My Story
Chaos
Male dancer
Bus Ride
Rape
3 Days After Arriving at College
אוףףףף
My story
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Two Friends and Two Boys
My Mother’s Albatross
Teenage Victim
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Barely Knew Them
Rape Shaming
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Rape
Rape Is Everywhere
Bringing the Stories to Light
Sexual Assault
You had no rights
Tulane Law
First Friend at University
But what really happened?
Set Up
Dirty Whore
Raped By My Therapist
Halloween Nightmare
A respectable collegue
Lotus
blackmailed
Blamed myself …
The First time I shared…
I Said No
Hostage
Was it my fault?
Unethical or illegal?
I Was Told It Was Normal
Date Rape
First Frat Party
My Fight
I Never Give Up

3 Generations
Family rape
No Stranger
weird brother
Gang rape
My first boyfriend in the US
I was 11
Army
That Night
Ripped Me Apart
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Being Done
I Was Only 7
גבר אלים וחולני
Rape Survivor
Was it rape? Or my fault?
A Victim No Longer
Prescription Drugs
De Los 6 a Los 12
I am a survivor
I Will Never Forget
Rape, Sexual Abuse
My stepfather raped me
I know when I see a rapist...
Shame Destroys
lucky
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
Rape
Knowledge is Power
Assault
Raped by stranger x2
Was It My Fault?
Rape
Smoke Together
Dear Coward
Lied to left brain damged
I Trusted You
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Sexually Abuse
I don’t know what to do
My story growing up with a secret
Ex Boyfriend
The Hole in My Heart
Supporting Sisters
When I Was 8 Years Old
Mi Esposa
Naive girl
Together, We Are Brave

