#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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The Statistics that Changed Me
Erase and Rewind
Victim No More
I Was Manipulated
My story
I Am Still Standing
My Friend
I was 17 and survived
My Story of a Gang Rape
Unsure
גבר אלים וחולני
my toxic relationship
לפני 14 שנים
We met at the bar
“Trust me, take a chance”
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
I Am Brave

Is Healing Possible?
לא יוצאים מזה…
Raped in the Air Force
Aftermath
Pretty Girls
Surviving, Kinda
Different face, but the same monster
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
Assaulted
My Stepdad Molested Me
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
When Does It End
incest
Sexually Assaulted in Cuba
Unspoken
In Front of My Girls
He Was My Father
Ignored For a Lifetime
Incapacitated Still
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Was Only 7
הסיפור שלי…
When i was stripped of my innocence
I Thought I Was Safe
Men get raped too…
Someone I Dated
Molested by my biological father
He Took My Virginity
I’m Now a Statistic
Warning
The Party I Will Never Forget
Was It Rape?
My Nightmare
New Years Eve
A respectable collegue
“Trust me, take a chance”
Molested By Two Uncles
My best friends dad
The Boys Club Continues
University Bar
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
My boyfriend
Raped by my Stepfather
Kidnapped
Rape
You’re a Rapist
Bringing the Stories to Light
The First Time
Just Another Night
Frozen in fear
I was a kid, you were my...
My sisters boyfriend abused me
Is It Really Rape?
Thank you for being LOUD!
I’m 17 and I’m over it
Let’s Fight Back With Love
You Were My Friend
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
3 Days After Arriving at College
Finally Accepting I Was Raped
Rape
Raped as a Boy
Rape
It is not my fault
Being Raped
This could never happen to me
How Could It Have Happened
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Help
My Story
Fell In Love With a Monster
Relationship does not equal consent
I was used. I got left. I...
He Loved Me
My 18th Birthday
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Aftermath
The same guy
En Enero de 2010
Myself
Date Rape
You were supposed to be my friend
De Los 6 a Los 12
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
A horror that lasts a lifetime
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Bad Decisions
Drugged
Married to my Rapist
I finally said NO
I No Longer Want To Live
Start of grooming at 15
Warrior
Night walk at community center
Was It Rape
Broken vase
An Amazing Woman
They asked if I was lying
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Rape
Survivor, Still Struggling
Metoo
A Fun Game
He was right
Sexual Abuse
Snowball Effect
The One I Trusted
Embrace It All
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Blamed Myself
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
My Story
A Message from the Director

Scared Like Crazy
Multiple Times
J’avais 13 ans
You Can’t Trust Anyone
I Saved Myself
Respect
So Now What?
Too Young and Unsure
incest
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Middle school sexual harassment
Multiple Assaults
Not Really Family
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Rape
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Mental Breakdown
היי
My Story
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
A Ruined Life
הטרידו אותי
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Miss
Kibbutz
Close of a Brother
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Never Be the Same Again
Time To Tell
My Girlfriend of Two Years
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Scar
Speaking Up for Women
I don’t know what happened
My stepfather raped me
The Day I Was Raped
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Sex doll
Another poem about a not so perfect...
Mrs.
Because of You
I wish she wouldve helped me
No Comfort
My Safe Place
Rape
silent rape
Ignored
Scar
Together, We Are Brave
