#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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Life of Trauma
There Is Hope For Us
Four Years Ago
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
3 Generations
גבר אלים וחולני
I Am Beautiful Now
He Was A Police Officer
Raped By 6 Policemen
Raped 14 times in 1 year
I Don’t Know My Story
A Meek Young Girl
I didn’t even know what was happening
Say Something
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I Was 3 Years Old
Alcohol
היי
Senior Year Ended In The First Week
School Rape
I lost all the important people in...
Raped By a Friend
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Be Careful Who You Trust
Rape
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
ללינור היקרה
You Must Acknowledge
I Own My Story
Prisoner of Love
My Beloved Man
Rape
I need some advice
Bad Programming
Rape & Sexual Assault
His Masterpiece
Braver

Repressed Memory
I Am a Survivor…
כמוני כמוך
Seis Años
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Almost Raped
Who Is To Blame?
Living With Us
An Orphanage
Mrs
Erase and Rewind
Family
Confused by Rape
Raped by Brother
Family rape
Raped By Family
אוףףףף
Don’t Know
Left Me In Pieces
A Victim No Longer
Frozen in fear
Letter to…
Molestation
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Rape of My Partner
My Daughter and I Both
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Don’t Know, Okay?
Not just me
Multiple Times
Is It Rape When It’s Your Husband??
Unethical or illegal?
Betrayal
Incest & Date Rape
Betrayed By My Own Mind
It’s my fault
I Was 10
I Was Only 7
Despedida
My Story
The Day I Was Raped
My message to all
Noah
One Night Only
End of Innocence
I Thought He Loved Me
My Story of Rape
Stranger
Playing House
Returning to Mexico
It never goes away
Bad Morning
My Mother was raped and told me...
Nearly 50 years later
I thought he was a friend
Proud
My Boss Raped Me
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
Another kid raped me
הטרידו אותי
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
Darkness With Friends
3 Different Times
Raped in my own bed
I Trusted You
Shame Destroys
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Best Friends Brother
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Childhood of assault
I Thought He Loved Me
De Los 6 a Los 12
Raped at the Air Force Academy
I Barely Knew Them
Boyfriend Forcefully Sodomized Me
Twice
My Story
Sexual Assault
My rape
I Didn’t Know
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
A respectable collegue
A Journal of a Wayward Child
First date: Raped after school at 15
The Woods Don’t Speak
The Day Everything Changed
My story growing up with a secret
I Thought He Loved Me
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
He Cashed in His Trust
I was a raped by a couple...
Raped By a Family Member
Victim Shaming
Sexual harassment
Drugged
Raped By My Therapist
Do NOT Trust Strangers
Neighbors
Overcome It
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
Unethical or illegal?
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
Breaking Trust
Time Heals
The Night That Changed My World
Thank You
Never Ending
School Rape
Quarterly Review
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Identity?
Obsessed Abusive Ex
My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend
Taken Advantage
Rape By Unknown
My abuse story victim to survivor
Too naïve
Still Going
Lasting memories
Thank you
Naive girl
Sexual Assault
Letter to My Rapist
The Statistics that Changed Me
I still don’t know
J’avais 13 ans
Being Raped
Sexual Abuse
What Happened?
Rape
A Letter
Shelter My Soul
Assault
En Enero de 2010
Continue to Survive
Rape at 15
Molested
I Never Give Up

Employer rape
I never thought it could happen to...
Friend of mines set me up
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
7 Months
Hard Time
Ending Misogyny
Leaving the party
Help
My Story
No means yes to some
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My Journey Back to Life
This is MY story
Black Girl
One Bad Decision
Me too.
Summer 2019
Together, We Are Brave

