#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.
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Holding My Feelings In
Rape
Intruded
My sexual assault
I’m Not Sure
The abuser
He Was a Cop
My survival story
Male dancer
Bringing the Stories to Light
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Step Daddy
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Glitter Girl, Gone.
When I Was 7
My Story
Weathering The Storm
What am I doing wrong
School Prom
Life Purpose
East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer – Joseph...
I Was Only 14
20 Years Later
My Story
Unknown
Was it rape? Or my fault?
High School
There once was love
Just little girls
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
Date Rape Drug
Out For A Walk
SURVIVOR OF RAPE
They will never know what they did...
My First Two Times
Alcohol
My husband was home
היי לינור
My Mother was raped and told me...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Year in Hell
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
Spoke out and was blamed
They asked if I was lying
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Stranger
Motel 6 Nightmare
Despedida
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Rape
4 Years Ago
Fenced In
My Parents Didnt Do Anything
When I Was 8 Years Old
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Living With Us
To the man who stole my independence
Our Corrupted Country
Three Times in a Row
Blaming Myself
“Date” gone wrong?
Relationship does not equal consent
I know when I see a rapist...
Not Over It
An Unknown Face & Hands
Roommates
Stand Strong
Not normal
Supporting Sisters
Was I raped?
David and Goliath
innocent
LOST
Sex doll
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Pedophile Neighbour
I like to think I won’t feel...
I want my innocence back
Family Rape
Didn’t Think it Could Happen to ME
Drugged and Gang Raped
My Rape
Repressed Memory
Is It Really Rape?
Too naïve
Naïve
En Enero de 2010
Sexual molestation as a child
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
ללינור היקרה
I’ve survived sexual abuse
My Own Party
Moving On
Warning
5 Years On
Divided into two
Red Flags
Rape on a Foreign Exchange Trip
Freshman Year
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Rape
Hope after repeated rape
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
I Didn’t See It In Time
Rape
The Statistics that Changed Me
It was my boyfriend
Ms.
Mi Historia
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Two Times
Still Going
Unethical or illegal?
The secret
Raped By My Therapist
Grandpa
Black Girl
The One I Trusted
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
What sent me over the edge
I don’t know if I was raped
He was my best friend
Sexual Assault
Love and Forced abortion
Prisoner of Love
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
I was assaulted twice at the same...
16 times
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
A respectable collegue
Mi Esposa
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Unforgiven
Rock It!

My First Time
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
Tattoo Artist
My Rape Stories
7 years and it still controls me
Broke me
Constant fear
לא יוצאים מזה…
Raped in my own bed
Assaulted on a Holiday
I was 13
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
My 21st Birthday
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Was Only 7
The Guy I Trusted
In-Between Times
For the guy
Just Words
כמוני כמוך
I was 17 and survived
He was jealous of my new friend
Your First
I’ve lost my trust with men
Girls Without Parents
Not Sure It Happened
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Erase and Rewind
Sexual Abuse
Returning to Mexico
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Assault, Battery, and Rape
Stupid Coward
My Innocence Was Taken Away
I wish she wouldve helped me
Raped by my boyfriend
My rape story
Holding My Feelings In
Does the pain ever go away?
First College Party
Just Fine
Confused by Rape
I was very dumb.
Powerful
Chiropractor
a shattered girl and her dreams restored
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Twice
Myself
My story of my date rape
The Night That Changed My Life
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Not all friends are true
I wanted to get high
Today, I Let It All Go
My story and this amazing documentary film
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Molested and Confused
Raped and Numbed
my story
Afraid of Being Judged
Army
Felt safe in my friend group
He was a friend
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
I Was Only 14
היי
Now I Understand My Husband
So drunk I can’t remember
A Loss to Mankind
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
Newly Living Neighbour
לפני 14 שנים
Victim Shaming
10 Minutos Can Change Your Life
Grandpa
I was raped
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
More Than Once
I’m Only Stronger
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Flashbacks
#MeToo, too
Different face, but the same monster
My Story of a Gang Rape
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
He Was My Dad
Rape
A Message from the Director
