#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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i was 5 , 12 , 13...
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
To my best friend who raped me
High School Orientation
Motel 6 Nightmare
Sex doll
Hard Time
Raped By My Brother’s Friend
Why Was No Not Enough?
I forgot, but then I remembered
Molested
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Politeness Serves No One
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
It Started With Rape
Raped in my own bed
En Enero de 2010
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
My Friend
I am More than a Victim
He doesn’t even know he raped me
He’s Dead
I was just 9.
My Story
Too drunk to respond
Years later… meeting my rapist again
Breaking the Trust
What Is Success?
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Lightening Does Strike Twice
My Story
Broken Hearted
Raped By Boyfriend
Was It Rape?
New Years Eve Party
Hollywood’s Lost Angels
His opportunity
James
Now I Understand My Husband
Him or Me
My Host-sisters friend
Stranger Rape
Married to Abuser
Friends No Longer
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
My Story
What sent me over the edge
Six months in the making..
Someone I Dated
Thought He Was A Friend
Family
A letter to my rapist
Every Time I Said “No”
Unsure
The Hole in My Heart
Abused at the Age of 4
My story
Fraternity gang rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
I Barely Knew Them
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Lost Trust In Men For The Longest...
Step Daddy
16 times
Raped as a child and teen
My Brother’s Best Friend
I don’t know anymore
Ms.
Set Up
I Was Only 7
Time Heals
Raped in the Air Force
I Recorded my Rapist
I Hate My Father
Raped by a work colleague
Say Something
I don’t Know, but I Know
Just little girls
Someone Left To Trust?
Unethical or illegal?
Taken Advantage
My Friend’s Ex-Boyfriend
Boyfriend Hell
Date Rape
Not just me
Drunken Rape
Day at the Lake
My experience as an intern in highschool
Erase and Rewind
Six Years of Denial
Date Rape
Life of Trauma
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
3 Different Times
Metoo
My Story
Stronger Than You Think
Pastor’s Son
Becoming Whole
3x
Why me?
My Father’s Funeral
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
You Must Acknowledge
Happy Birthday
After I Was Raped
יש חיים אחרי אונס
3 Times is Not Charming
Mental Breakdown
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
My story
היי לינור
dad and mom rape
First Crush
Assault, Battery, and Rape
I don’t know if I was raped
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
Sexual Assault Survival
Finally Using My Voice
Raped By 6 Policemen
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Step Daddy
Stormy Night
Too naïve
silent rape
Raped at the Air Force Academy
I am a Rape Survivor
That One Night
Still Rape
He Was a Friend
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Mi Historia
Summer 2019
This Is Me, my fight song
My Story
I Trusted Him
לפני 14 שנים
I Was Dating Him
Lying Child Molester
My Daughter
Touched
I don’t know anymore
We go to the same church
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Is It Rape When It’s Your Husband??
Rape and Crisis
Do you remember your first time?
I just wanted to give him a...
One Day At a Time
Good Guy
Raped Study Abroad in Seoul
The Summer of 2013
Fiance Father of my Child
My year abroad
It’s OK
Broken Trust
Empty
It’s OK
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Braver


