#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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Empty
My Own Brother
The pain that was never mine to...
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Constant fear
Black and Blue
The Same Effect
Raped in the Air Force
Spoke out and was blamed
Trader Joes
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Unethical or illegal?
Bus Ride
Raped by my boyfriend
my story-and where i “took it”…
Drunken Rape
Why
Ripples
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
Kibbutz
Rape
Abuse Continued
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Sexual Assault at 11
What’s Done Is Done
Not My Friend
My Younger Sister
My ex’s best friend
Liberating Moment
My stepfather raped me
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
He used me. He left me.
He took away my innocence
The Fight We Can All Win
I’m Over Reacting
My Two Days of Hell
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Told Him No
I Am a Survivor…
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
Sex doll
I Was 20
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
The First Time
היי לינור
The Life I Live
A respectable collegue
raped and isolated
Spoke out and got fired
Ending Misogyny
Abused By A Therapist
Sexual Abuse
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
לא יוצאים מזה…
So Now What?
I am a survivor
Close of a Brother
The Statistics that Changed Me
Blaming Myself
עדיין מציק
Military Brother in Arms
I let it happen twice
I called him my friend
Black Girl
My story!
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
My First Two Times
How Could It Have Happened
Halloween Nightmare
Thank you for being LOUD!
I Barely Knew Them
My Story
“Me too” On Facebook
3 incidents
Mistaken Identity
Thank you for being LOUD!
A Lifetime of pain
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Metoo
I was just 9.
Raped at 16
My story
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Seis Años
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
My Rape
Male dancer
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Workplace Sexual Harassment
No Means No
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
My story growing up with a secret
Just Another Night
Step Dad
Coercion is never consent
Abused as a Child
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
Despedida
Not Safe in Your Own Family
כמוני כמוך
Ex Boyfriend
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
Too scared to tell
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Metoo
My Husband Set Me Up!
Victimization
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Running
I’m finally letting my hurt out
Young and Unaware
Online dating
My teacher and my step-brother
The First Time
He’s Dead
My Rapes
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Does the pain ever go away?
#IStandWithHer
My mother’s boyfriend
The Statistics that Changed Me
LOST
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Day at the Lake
What To Do IF You’re Not Raped...
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
Don’t Want to Anymore
Everyone loves him
My Rape
Holding It In
PART 1: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Molestation
אוףףףף
The Day Everything Changed
How Many Times?
Still Unable to Tell People
I Don’t Trust My Father
Innocence Taken
My 21st Birthday
Raped by Abusive Husband
Life of Trauma
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Assault?
Rape
Too naïve
3x
Trust
Perfect on Paper
Why Me?
Finding Peace
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I Am Not Brave
He Cashed in His Trust
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Rape
Just wanted to be loved
My Safe Place
Rape, Sexual Abuse
My Fight
Males can be victims too
My Daughter
My Father’s Funeral
Raped by my boyfriend
Mi Esposa
Myself
When It’s Personal
Sexual Assault
4 short stories of sexual aggresion
Kidnapped and raped at gunpoint
Amusement Park
Quarterly Review
Rape In a Rural Town
Healing in progress
So drunk I can’t remember
I Still Blame Myself
Online dating
Effort To Survive
Prom’s ideals
He had my pants down
Kidnapped and Raped
Survivors of Continuous Events of Sexual ABUSE
Broken Girl
What Happened?
Why Me Over and Over?
3 Generations
My Religious Teacher
What Is Happening
I Was Only 7
Becoming a Warrior
Freshman Year
5th Grade
En Enero de 2010
7th Grade Assault
My Fears Do Not Define Me
Why Me, Time and Time Again
It Lead to More Memories
he made me loose hope in love…
Choir Camp
My Side
Raped
75 Percent Humidity
Naive
Let’s Fight Back With Love
Catching Up With Me
Another Victim
Drugged raped and failed by justice
A Journal of a Wayward Child
No Justice
J’avais 13 ans
Ex
I am More than a Victim
The One I Called Papa
The Beach is Not Safe
It Was the Second
Never Again
Raped and Numbed
Innocence Taken
This Is My Story
Was It Rape?
I’m Unbroken and So Are You
Scared and Confused
Denial
Best Friends Brother
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Everyone loves him
The Setup
Abuse and Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Ignoring only gets so far
Broken Girl
Out of Control
I didn’t know
My Two Days of Hell
Erase and Rewind
I Was 16
One in Four
Unsure
גבר אלים וחולני
Confused
My boyfriend of 2 years
Breaking the Silence

