#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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Raped in the Air Force
Childhood rape
Sex doll
MY Inspirational Story
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Male dancer
From Grief to Trauma
לפני 14 שנים
Taking Back My Life
Raped in College
Pretty Girls
Shelter My Soul
One in Four
Don’t Know What to Call What Happened
The Night That Changed My Life
My Best Friend
Why
Stepfather
Cafeteria Food
My Brother, My Rapist
Summer 2019
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
In Five Years
I did Not need to know this
Gang rape and further sexual assaults
He Loved Me
Drunk and Alone
An Abnormal Reaction
Girl Raped By a Girl
Raped At 12 Years Old– Letter to...
A Victim No Longer
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Don’t Want to Anymore
My Rapes
3 Days After Arriving at College
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A Ride Home
Brave
Seis Años
First Frat Party
Life of Trauma
Surviving, Kinda
Raped at 16
Thought He Was A Friend
Justice Didn’t Help Me
היי
Online dating
This Is My Story
silent rape
Ritual Sexual Abuse
Too naïve
Was I Abused?
Why Me?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
A letter to my rapist
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
So drunk I can’t remember
לא יוצאים מזה…
Testifying
Made in America
College Rape
How I Was Raped
J’avais 13 ans
Perfect on Paper
Nobody Knows
He said I wanted it
Rape
13 & Alone
No Wasn’t Good Enough
היי לינור
Army
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT WORK
Left Me In Pieces
Scars That Heal
Repressed Memories
Was It Rape
Salted Wound
My story and this amazing documentary film
Why
Forgiving My Rapist
I am a survivor
Rape and Not Believed
First date: Raped after school at 15
Never forgot
Second Night of College
NYD
Rape by family
In NYC
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Sexual Assault
My Best Friend
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Be Aware
He Was My Boyfriend
Stupid Coward
Still Unable to Tell People
Just A Party
5th Grade
Why did this happen to me???
Locked Up
En Enero de 2010
A respectable collegue
Spoke out and was blamed
Six months in the making..
Predators
Sexual Assault in my own bed
Do you believe me?
Multiple Times
Raped Husband
The Girl Who Went To College
High School Rape
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
Unforgiven
Raped and Numbed
I’m 17 and I’m over it
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
7 Months
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Empty
Lying Child Molester
Another kid raped me
#MeToo I am 1
University Bar
Mi Historia
Surviving, Kinda
What Was I Thinking?
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Halloween Nightmare
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
Assaulted
New Years Eve
My brother let him in
Another Victim
Proud
Former partner would berate me
The Party
Despedida
Warrior
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
If I Were Stronger Then
I Thought I was Safe
Workplace Sexual Harassment
blackmailed
What Was I Thinking?
Black Girl
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
More Than Half of My Life Ago
It’s my fault
was raped and I don’t remember it
I Choose Hope

