#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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You Must Acknowledge
Cavemen
What Is Success?
First Friend at University
A respectable collegue
I Was 10
En Enero de 2010
Online Dangers
Death before birth
My Safe Place
Too naïve
Just Words
Sex doll
Drugged
Rape
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
The Statistics that Changed Me
Roofied
My First Time
I don’t know who I am
Cafeteria Food
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
So drunk I can’t remember
Seis Años
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
She was 5 years old
I thought we were friends
J’avais 13 ans
Childhood of assault
You Didn’t Break Me
Holding My Feelings In
Identity?
19 years later and still thinking about...
New Years Eve Party
Metoo
En Enero de 2010
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Erase and Rewind
Enough Is Enough
An older cousin
Moving on Alone from Rape
My Multiple-Offender Rape
blackmailed
Second Night of College
I was molested and raped at 6
I Was Only 7
Childhood Abuse
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Lost In Time
Gross
Together, We Are Brave

If I Were Stronger Then
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Date Rape?
They thought it was fun
I think I was raped
I was raped
Knowledge is Power
Denial
Enough Is Enough
The Girl Who Went To College
Rude awakening
Raped at the Air Force Academy
He Was a Cop
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Ongoing Journey
No Stranger
Childhood nightmares
Not Alone
My husband raped me when I took...
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
היי
The Statistics that Changed Me
Date rape
The pain that was never mine to...
Rock It!

My Ongoing Journey
Made in America
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
He said he’d never do it again
7th Grade Assault
Rape…..or not?
15
I Didn’t See It In Time
Too naïve
My case is different from yours
Step Dad
Raped at the age of 16
Disappointed
She was never the same…
Holiday Rape
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Did I ask for it?
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Summer 2019
75 Percent Humidity
I Thought I was Safe
Kidnapped and Raped
Teatime
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
De Los 6 a Los 12
Sexual Abuse
Choose healing over silence
Raped After Work
I Thought I Knew Him
He Took My Virginity
The Statistics that Changed Me
כמוני כמוך
#MeToo I am 1
Was I Raped?
Memories
Sexual assault/ sex trafficking
Military Sexual Trauma
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Raped
It wasn’t my fault
Spoke out and got fired
Raped
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
A Message from the Director
