#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.
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Black and Blue
De Los 6 a Los 12
Lessons I’m Learning Late in Life
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I Felt So Helpless
Believe Her
Sexual Assault
7 Months
Sexual Assault
I Was 3 Years Old
My Story
Effort To Survive
A Private College; A Private Rape
I No Longer Want To Live
My Story
A letter to my rapist
I am a Rape Survivor
Simply My Story
I called him my friend
45 Years of Being the Victim
My Brother’s Best Friend
He Was My Boss
Last Party
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Me too.
היי
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
No Support
Raped and Numbed
Rape
Feeling Alone
I Slept Next to Him
היי
She wanted me to prove I loved...
Football Player
No
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
A Beautiful Trap
Still Unable to Tell People
Identity?
Halloween Nightmare
Six months in the making..
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
Ms.
Repressed Memory
Mi Esposa
J’avais 13 ans
Being Raped
When does it end?
He Was A Police Officer
Life of Trauma
Multiple Times
Why did this happen to me???
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
Severe childhood trauma, due to drunken, irresponsible,...
Enough Is Enough
Finally ready to tell my story
So Many Times
i was a child.
Your truth will change someones’ life.
My Rape
Spousal Rape
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Raped at 14
Former partner would berate me
Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
The year that changed me
Catching Up With Me
This Is My Story
Keeping Faith
Breaking the Silence

Spoke out and was blamed
Time To Tell
Stop
Unlucky
Public Rape
I Blamed Myself
My story growing up with a secret
My best friend
My First Boyfriend
Today, I Let It All Go
ללינור היקרה
כמוני כמוך
Rape
What sent me over the edge
Alone
Can Anyone Help?
Say Something
Heavy Is The Head
Life After Death
He was a friend
My Own Street
I Am Beautiful Now
He bought me chips and sent me...
Drugged and Gang Raped
A horror that lasts a lifetime
Raped more than once
En Enero de 2010
I blamed myself… Twice
My Story
It Happens All Too Often
My neighbor and his friends
My Secret
Prom Night
So Long Ago But Still With Me
Help
Spoke out and was blamed
Online dating
Confused
Shedding the Shame of Adolescent Peer Sexual...
A letter to my rapist
Two Friends and Two Boys
Convincing Myself
November ’08
Unethical or illegal?
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Letter to…
Twice
The Unforgetable Party
silent rape
Black and Blue
He was jealous of my new friend
Girl Raped By a Girl
Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Think You Know
Finally Using My Voice
Why Me Over and Over?
Perfect on Paper
Bad Morning
Disappointed
Drunk and taken advantage of
Life Was Ruined
Black and Blue
Seis Años
Was I Raped?
Army
היי לינור
It Started with my Brother
אוףףףף
Everyone blames me
Shelter My Soul
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I know when I see a rapist...
Drugged
He Was A Police Officer
I was assaulted twice at the same...
Confused and Angry
I Said No
A Loss to Mankind
Rape
Permanently Scarred
Bringing the Stories to Light
My Story
Erase and Rewind
Fenced In
A Guy With Crooked Teeth
“No” is Universal
75 Percent Humidity
Raped By Boyfriend
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Mi Historia
My Story of a Gang Rape
4th of July
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Just Words
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Freshman Year
Help
My boyfriend
3 incidents
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
My First Time
Rape
Close of a Brother
Alcohol
Too Trusting
My baby girl
Roommates
I am a Rape Survivor
It Started With Rape
Abuse and Rape
הסיפור שלי…
My best friends dad
Incapacitated Still
They thought it was fun
When I Was 8 Years Old
Scammer
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Party Time
Raped Three Times
Never Even Knew
My Date Rape Story
Myself
Repressed Memory
Sex doll
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
The abuser
Rape by Boyfriend
Rape
I wanted to get high
Why Me?
Bartender Lies
Despedida
I Was 20
STRONG
The Boys Club Continues
Breaking Trust
Thank you for being LOUD!
Molested While Sleeping
Sexual Abuse
College Professor
Why you should talk to your daughters...
Date Rape
My story of my date rape
Mental Breakdown
Since Age 6?
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
I Remember Being Happy
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Males can be victims too
Cavemen
לפני 14 שנים
Today, I Let It All Go
I want my innocence back
Date Rape
Broken Trust
Never Got Over It
Someday Soon
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
I was raped last summer
Not Really Love
Summer 2019
I buried the pain
Still Terrified
Surviving, Kinda
Ex
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
When It’s Personal
Raped in the Air Force
לא יוצאים מזה…
not the typical rape
A respectable collegue
Trust
sexual assault & abuse
Survivor

You Can’t Trust Anyone
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Rape Story
My Best Friends Brother
Sex doll
Rape and Crisis
גבר אלים וחולני
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
My Story, My Nightmare
Raped
My Life in Foster Care
Coercion is never consent
Unforgiven
The Night That Changed My Life
Victim of sexual assault
I am 1 in 4
Nearly 50 years later
Chiropractor
A Loss to Mankind
Raped
Together, We Are Brave
