#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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Sex doll
Not Remembering
It Was My Fault
En Enero de 2010
Sexually Assaulted Or Not?
The Man in Uniform
Realization of Rape
My Father Molested Me for 10 Years
No
Marital Rape
Enough Is Enough
Sally
Raped in the Air Force
With Love
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
Who is Responsible?
Glitter Girl, Gone.
I’m Confused
Choose healing over silence
Tulane Law
Myself
Child Molester
That’s not what friend means
November ’08
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Naïve
Sexual abuse
Raped By My Therapist
I will not stay silent
College Rape
School Rape
He Was My Best Friend
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
Justice
Losing My Virginity
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
Does “No” mean nothing?
Childhood of assault
Because of you
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Is this normal?
Confused by Rape
It Started with my Brother
Attempted Rape
First Love to Long Term Abuse
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Gray area?
An Uber Driver Raped Me
Tel Aviv
My Story
His Charming Ways
Innocence
Rape
Becoming a Warrior
So drunk I can’t remember
Raped
Molested
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
היי לינור
My Story
My Rape Stories
I was raped
I Am Beautiful Now
A Survivor, Not a Victim
Who Is To Blame?
He over stepped the mark
Nearly 50 years later
Aftermath
New Years
A respectable collegue
Three weeks, every day..
A Ruined Life
Staying Strong
Dream / Recall
Hundreds of Times
I Was Nearly Raped
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
My First Time
Can Anyone Help?
Rape By Unknown
Finding My Voice
No Longer Keeping the Peace
Sexually assulted by coworker
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
My Husband Set Me Up!
I wanted to get high
Was Once a Best Friend
Do you remember your first time?
Assaulted
When school isn’t safe. (Australia)
I was raped
My Story
Mi Esposa
Am i being raped?
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
My Religious Teacher
Brothers
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
My Healing Journey
3 years on
הטרידו אותי
A Life of Pain
Date Raped
My Story
I Felt So Helpless
Mi Historia
A Message from the Director
Family
היי
Drunken rape
Are you sure?
Mistaken Identity
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My First Two Times
When I Was 8 Years Old
It will get better
Lost My Virginity In Rape By Jehovah’s...
Raped by my Step Brother
A Lifetime
Happy Survivor
My abuse story victim to survivor
No
I’m finally letting my hurt out
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Sexual Assault
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Just Another Night
ONLY the Beginning
A Long Healing Process
What Is Happening
Raped in College
It’s A Long Story
Ms.
The pain that was never mine to...
Roofied
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Rape
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Despedida
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
The Statistics that Changed Me
I know when I see a rapist...
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
A Year After
When I Was 16
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
A story of a not so perfect...
The Park
Confused and Angry
Victim of sexual assault
My abuse story victim to survivor
Bad Morning
Married to my Rapist
Way Back in 1973
Red Flags
Respect Our Elders
Prom Night
De Los 6 a Los 12
Foreign City
Innocence Taken
raped by my own brother
Military Man
If I Were Stronger Then
Playing House
He Took My Virginity
Raped as a Baby
Sharing #MeToo’s
School Bathroom
Deja Vu
Seis Años
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
School Rape
Do NOT Trust Strangers
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
Left Me In Pieces
Just Words
Sexually assaulted several times
Anal Rape
Spoke out and was blamed
Made in America
Life After Death
Summer 2019
Just wanted to be loved
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Messed Up
Football Player
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Molestation
raped and isolated
I loved my job
1990
The Life I Live
Fraternity Men
Too drunk to respond
It Was the Second
Everyone loves him
I Didn’t Even Know Him
He was jealous of my new friend
It Was My Fault
When will it be enough?
Rape or Not?
ללינור היקרה
Sexual Assault
Not Blood Cousins
Rape
Raped By My Neighbour
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Husband raped? Well people don’t call it...
I don’t know anymore
Broken Car Broke Me
לפני 14 שנים
Just a Child
Last Party
Confused
יש חיים אחרי אונס
06.05.2006
Holding My Feelings In
Flashbacks
What Is Success?
גבר אלים וחולני
Me too.
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
My principal mom raped me
Keeping Faith
Black Girl
God Saved Me
My Story
Molested and Confused
Child sex abuse
Fenced In
The Woods Don’t Speak
Why
Raped in my own bed
My Friend
Forgiving My Rapist
What sent me over the edge
Babysitter Abuse
Fraternity gang rape
The Aftermath
Scared to close my eyes
LOST
To my best friend who raped me
Trusted Him
“Me too” On Facebook
My Family My Love
עדיין מציק
Rapist Turned Murderer
Young and Unaware
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Sexual Abuse
My Story
I don’t know what to do
Acquaintance Rape
J’avais 13 ans
Confronting My Step-Father
Assault at 12 Years by Teacher
Erase and Rewind
Raped in my own bed
He Was My Boyfriend
Just a Child
Unsure
Unethical or illegal?
I Want to Live
I was raped
I was raped and I didnt know...
We met at the bar
Speaking It
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
I Was Only 7
Army
Help!! What Can I Do?
Help !
Stranger Danger
Braver

Alcohol
Just a Joke
An Orphanage
הסיפור שלי…
לא יוצאים מזה…
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
More Than a Survivor
Your truth will change someones’ life.
Some of my story
It never goes away
Coming forward turned into a nightmare
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
I Am Brave

