#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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Online Dangers
1 hour 3 days
Raped at the Air Force Academy
Raped in the Air Force
היי
What Was I Thinking?
Dad and Uncle Raped Me
Black Out
Male dancer
Raped as a Boy
Rape In a Rural Town
Raped in Milan
I Was 16
Glitter Girl, Gone.
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
My Stepdad Molested Me
Confused by Rape
What Is Success?
I’m Not Sure
Locked Up
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Drug raped
Innocence Taken
Broken Car Broke Me
Six months in the making..
היי לינור
Raped at 16
Spoke out and was blamed
My deaf husband sued the Vatican
Why Me Over and Over?
Hiding from the Weather
Nobody Knew
My Journey Back to Life
Rapist Turned Murderer
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
my toxic relationship
Never Again
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Raped By Family
Night Out
Stranger Danger, Yeah Right.
Darkness With Friends
Molested While Sleeping
A respectable collegue
Stronger Every Day
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Victim of sexual assault
My Mother’s Albatross
Not Over It
sexual assault
En Enero de 2010
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Finally Sharing
Help
“My Rape” at University
Spring Break
Salted Wound
Raped
My survival story
Molested
Family members ex husband
To My Rapist
My Daughter
Finally Arrested
I called him my friend
Was it rape? Or my fault?
Roofied
Weak
He was supposed to be a friend
Growing Past Just Surviving
My First Time
My story growing up with a secret
Brothers
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Why Me?
Just Words
Despedida
First date: Raped after school at 15
Alone
A Day My Life Changed Forever
Stronger Every Day
Sexual Assault
Too naïve
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Frozen in fear
Silence
my story
Still Unable to Tell People
De Los 6 a Los 12
I am More than a Victim
Naive College Freshman
Myself
I Am Brave
