#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 Still Blame Myself
Felt safe in my friend group
Remember as a victim you have done...
Un-Silenced
I Thought I Was Safe
He’s Your Husband, It’s Not Rape
My Coach My Rapist
Okay, Not Okay
The Hole in My Heart
My best friend
My best friend
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I Thought He Loved Me
Erase and Rewind
With Love
Can’t Believe I’m Doing This
My ex
Why Me?
Let Down
Sex doll
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
You Must Acknowledge
Rape?
They asked if I was lying
Despedida
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
The Setup
A Journal of a Wayward Child
I was just 9.
…
I Was 16
Bad Programming
Life Is Rough
11 Years to Justice
Not Another Moment
Travel
The Guy I Trusted
Manipulation
Justice
Black and Blue
Working Through It
Childhood of assault
Don’t Give Up

Circumstances Collided That Night
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
He knew what he was doing
He was a friend
My childhood
This will be painful
Two Friends and Two Boys
I’m a functioning alcoholic
גבר אלים וחולני
יש חיים אחרי אונס
Sharing again
My Own Sister
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
You Didn’t Break Me
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
What Happened?
A story of a not so perfect...
Twice a pattern?
Twice
גבר אלים וחולני
Former partner would berate me
Drunk and Alone
The Friend
Incest & Date Rape
How can we make it stop?
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
I loved my job
I Was Only 7
My rape story
Keeping Faith
My Life, My Achievement
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Afraid of Being Judged
I’m Confused
Life and Death
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
My Story
Not normal
He Never Apologized
Still Terrified
The pain that was never mine to...
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Me and my Best Friend
Supposed to be the Best Day of...
Assault?
I Trusted Him
It started with you.
ללינור היקרה
He Was a Cop
3 incidents
He took away my innocence
Raped Husband
My Story
When I Was Three
40 years
Fenced In
…
Sophomore Year College
Still Terrified
My Mother’s Albatross
Because of you
Rape
My Multiple-Offender Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
He doesn’t even know he raped me
He took it as yes
I Never Give Up

My Untold Story
My Daughter
It had to be my fault.
לפני 14 שנים
Today, I Let It All Go
“raped” by my long time bf
The Life I Live
Dad Raped Me
Was it my fault
Coercion is never consent
עדיין מציק
Off My Shoulders
Stand Strong
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
Rape
A Ruined Life
Uncomfortable
Sexual Abuse
Unsure
היי לינור
Too naïve
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
A Victim No Longer
Repressed Memories x3 Abusers
Effort To Survive
Mrs.
לפני 14 שנים
Once Again
Young and Innocent
אוףףףף
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
My Sexual Assault Story
Friend of mines set me up
Three Times in a Row
Did I ask for it?
Survivor, Still Struggling
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I thought you loved me
The Scapegoat of Shame an Guilt
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Rape
Erased From Memory
First Friend at University
Raped in the Air Force
My Life, My Achievement
First Frat Party
Me too.
Grandpa
Drugged
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
When I Was 16
April 19th
Mi Historia
He Was My Father
Blamed Myself
You are with me!!
I am not a rape victim
Spring Break Nightmare
Taking Back My Life
It Started With Rape
Guilt and Shame Almost Killed
PART 1: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
When I Was 7
I know when I see a rapist...
Proof, but no Witnesses
Sexual Assault
Knowledge is Power
I Am Brave

