#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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The thief
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Men get raped too…
Assault?
My story growing up with a secret
A School Trip
A Year After
I’m Doing You a Favor
My best friends dad
The Statistics that Changed Me
My boyfriend of 2 years
Justice Didn’t Help Me
Male dancer
I should have STOPPED
Growing Past Just Surviving
Testifying
It Happens All Too Often
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Lost In Time
My First Memory
I Too Was Raped
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
Too much trauma
I was raped
I’m 17 and I’m over it
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Can Anyone Help?
3x
I Thought I Knew Hi
היי לינור
Scars
Confused
Being Raped
Why Was No Not Enough?
Gang rape
Salted Wound
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Not Okay
Roommates
Drugged
Assault, Battery, and Rape
One Bruise Too Many
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Raped as a Boy
“No” is Universal
Too naïve
I Woke Up In The Tub
My story
Dee Bhagwanji
Hidden Emotions
Step Dad
@ years of rape and being drugged
My story growing up with a secret
It’s A Long Story
Rape
Mi Esposa
Shame
Being drunk is not consent
Date Rape
I Trusted Him
Manipulation
Was It Really Rape?
My First Time Speaking Up
אוףףףף
Rape Being Considered a “Joke”
הטרידו אותי
Never Heals
Gray area?
Nearly 50 years later
Multiples Agressions Sexuelles
My best friend
Seis Años
Despedida
לפני 14 שנים
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Bad Date
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Aftermath
Army
Raped and Numbed
5th Grade
Respect
Summer 2019
Ex Boyfriend
I want my innocence back
Mi Historia
3rd Grade Terror
3 Generations
Was it rape if he’s my boyfriend?
Erased From Memory
A respectable collegue
I was 8 years old
my story-and where i “took it”…
En Enero de 2010
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Prisoner of Love
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Enough Is Enough
Drunken Rape
Assaulted on a Holiday
So drunk I can’t remember
A Lifetime of Trauma
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
My rape
No Title Will Stop How I Feel
The pain that was never mine to...
Spring Break Nightmare
I Saved Myself
Employer rape
Who Is To Blame?
He raped me. I hugged him goodbye...
Catching Up With Me
Piece
Battling
My Story
The cycle
I was raped
Family
#MeToo, too
Assault?
A young mother
Happy Hell-oween
Touched by a Man I Didn’t Know
De Los 6 a Los 12
My Girlfriend of Two Years
Denial
Strength to Speak Out
Rape
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Date Rape
Just Playing
Why I Am The Way I Am
My Host-sisters friend
Who I Once Called My Father
My Rape Stories
The Summer of 2013
Remember November
First Frat Party
16 times
Broken Girl
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Still Unable to Tell People
Less than a Minute of my Life
Remember November
I Trusted Him
How I Was Raped
I Was Only 7
A Journal of a Wayward Child
I thought we were friends
Too naïve
My Horrific Nightmare
Rape
Please do not be afraid of being...
גבר אלים וחולני
Halting The Pain
Does the pain ever go away?
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
My Interview
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Was it rape?
Amusement Park
Red Flags
Never Ending
My Stepbrother
Family Ties
My message to all
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Fraternity gang rape
Lost In Time
Need advice
Holding My Feelings In
Every one ignored me
ללינור היקרה
Repeat Offender
Sex doll
I Was Just A Baby
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Emotional Abuse
To my best friend who raped me
The Unforgetable Party
Brave
He took away my innocence
Assault In the Family
There are a lot of assholes on...
You Didn’t Break Me
Rock It!

