#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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Ride from the Concert
Summer 2019
It’s A Long Story
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
No Justice
לפני 14 שנים
אוףףףף
The Life I Live
Confused by Rape
My First “Boyfriend”
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
Girl Raped By a Girl
Don’t Know
Myself
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
A respectable collegue
I am a Survivor
Love of My Life?
Silence
You Were My Friend
My Rape
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Spoke out and was blamed
Molestation
Hidden Emotions
Why Me?
Date Rape
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
Shame
3 years on
I Thought I was Safe
My rape story
Raped by Him
I Said No
Multiple Times
My Year in Hell
Stand Strong
lucky
ללינור היקרה
Rape
Almost Raped
Enough Is Enough
Trauma
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
Rape, Sexual Abuse
One Day At a Time
f*ck you
Broken
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
3 incidents
Piece
My case is different from yours
Ms.
My Journey Back to Life
I was raped for 3 years
Unethical or illegal?
Spousal Rape
Sexual assault
Will I ever get over it.
I still see him on campus
My best friend
De Los 6 a Los 12
My 21st Birthday
Cafeteria Food
They asked if I was lying
Almost Raped
Sexual Assault
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Too Was Raped
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
I lost all the important people in...
A Lifetime of pain
Black and Blue
Mi Historia
My Best Friend
My Friend’s Ex-Boyfriend
My Story of Rape
My husband was molested as a child
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Longest Prayers of My Life
My Secret
Scars That Heal
Confused
I Was 9
Teatime
Did He Rape My Mind Too
Im 16
Politeness Serves No One
Never Going To Happen To Me
Swept under the carpet
What Is Success?
College Rape
The Same Effect
so forceful
Rape
Girls Without Parents
So Many Times
The Fight We Can All Win
27 Hours
If I Were Stronger Then
My First Memories….
April 19th
My Story
Taken Advantage
1990
The Statistics that Changed Me
The Cliche
My Brother
Last Party
Young and Unaware
I Will Never Forget
silent rape
Males can be victims too
Drunk and Alone
Sex doll
Tulane Law
Ex
Lost Soul
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Don’t Be Me
No one helped me !!!
my brother in law
Speaking Up for Women
Tormented
I Am More Than It
No man, however old, is safe.
היי
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
Raped in the Air Force
Don’t Want to Anymore
Deceit of family friend
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Diana Oakley’s Story
Mi Esposa
My experience as an intern in highschool
Glitter Girl, Gone.
40 years
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
I think I was raped
College Professor
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
PART 4: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Do NOT Trust Strangers
Years in Denial
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Someday Soon
Don’t Give Up

My story
My Life Destroyed in 5 Minutes
Just Playing
I Didn’t Even Know
Intimate Partner Violence
Raped 14 times in 1 year
Still Hurting
I don’t know who I am
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
J’avais 13 ans
Shout Out
It’s my fault
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
My best friends dad
My Story
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Was Only 7
Not A Trustworthy Man
Just Words
Molested by my biological father
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Male dancer
Rape and the Aftermath
I’m tired of hiding what you did
So Many Years to Remember
April 8th, 2016
I Barely Knew Them
1 in 5
Freshman Year
Molestation
I just realized this today.
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
Not just me
In My Home
My step dad raped me
Date Rape
Afraid of Being Judged
Becoming a Warrior
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Daughter’s Rape
Keeping Faith
42 Years Old
3 Generations
*rape
Undertones Throughout My Life
Breaking Trust
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
I like to think I won’t feel...
Michelle Johnston
Confused and Angry
Last Party
היי לינור
גבר אלים וחולני
April 19th
Ashamed
Masked Boyfriend
my story
Betrayed By My Husband
כמוני כמוך
Freshman Year
In The Concrete Jungle
Growth
Despedida
Victim Shaming
Years later… meeting my rapist again
I trusted him
More Than Once
Being Raped
When I Was 8 Years Old
Not Really Family
Raped by My Ex
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Dirty Whore
Assault?
Rape
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
Finally Healing
Incest & Date Rape
Bartender Lies
Dee Bhagwanji
Army
The Night That Changed My World
Man Raped By Man
Fraternity gang rape
So drunk I can’t remember
I was raped for 3 years
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
Molestation
Second Night of College
MST
Beyond a story
Doctor Nightmares
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
“I should do this more often”
Justice
Who Is To Blame?
I thought you loved me
יש חיים אחרי אונס
5 Years On
Too naïve
I Am Victorious!
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Living With Us
I know when I see a rapist...
The Mailman Raped Me
Victim of Abuse
A family assault
NO MORE TEARS TO CRY
My Story
Rock It!

Rape
Aftermath
My story growing up with a secret
My principal mom raped me
Sally
Just Another Night
Innocence
School Bathroom
My biggest mistake
My Fight
עדיין מציק
This is MY story
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
Erase and Rewind
If I Were Stronger Then
Okay, Not Okay
Letter to my offender part 2
My Boyfriend Raped Me
We Stand Together
Was it Really Rape
My Mother was raped and told me...
Breaking the Silence

