#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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Diana Oakley’s Story
Date Rape Drug
I Thought I Was Safe
Piece
The Setup
Someone Close to You
Simply My Story
Spoke out and was blamed
Rape
I dont know what to call it
How I Was Raped
I Was Raped
The One I Called Papa
Bad Morning
My Brother
Incest
High School Orientation
STRONG
Rape
Just Friends
Dear My Rapist
Still Need Help
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Does “No” mean nothing?
Life Is Rough
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Hateful
Almost A Stranger
intruder
Childhood Friend Date Rape
Hiding from the Weather
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Benefit of the Doubt
Gang Rape
Was it rape?
Halting The Pain
Erase and Rewind
Glad To Say I’m A Survivor
Scarred for life
Forced to Have Sex with My Boyfriend
Myself
Junior Prom
Spousal Rape
Someone so close to me
Mi Historia
Childhood Horror
He was 28
My Date Rape Story
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Prisoner of Love
Sexually assaulted at 4
I didn’t know
What If I Make You?
It’s OK
Memories Are Back
my story
A respectable collegue
הטרידו אותי
MY Inspirational Story
How Many Times?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
הסיפור שלי…
Ms.
Breaking the Silence
Relationship does not equal consent
I Was Only 7
My Rape
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
College Rape
So drunk I can’t remember
They thought it was fun
A Letter To The Man Who Stole...
My neighbor and his friends
3 Times is Not Charming
Rape By My Husband
Dad Raped Me
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
When will it be enough?
My Rape
My Religious Teacher
I didn’t fight back.
The reason for my tattoo
No one cared until I made them
Best Friends Brother
Unbelievable
I am a survivor
A Fighter? Or The Perfect Mask?
I will not stay silent
My message to all
Embrace It All
Afraid to be Brave
The Boys Club Continues
Too much trauma
Tormented
Restoring Innocence
My Story
Younger me
Normalization
We met at the bar
Metoo
Friends With Benefit Raped Me After I...
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
I Recorded my Rapist
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
I Thought I was Safe
Blaming Myself
The Night That Changed My Life
Betrayed By My Own Mind
10 YEARS OF SILENCE
Just Violated
Raped
Ketamine Rape
sexually abused
Just Words
Help!! What Can I Do?
Friends are sharing
My Interview
Sexual Abuse
Date rape
Poetry
My Best Friends Brother
Gang raped foolishly
Masked Boyfriend
So Now What?
Abuse Continued
En Enero de 2010
The Statistics that Changed Me
Army
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
Sexual Assault
My Step Father
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Unicorns
Too Young
The Worst Feeling
Still Lost :/
@ years of rape and being drugged
I regret not telling
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Still Can’t Believe It
A Letter to My Rapist
Love of My Life?
I Don’t Know My Story
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
At the Movie’s
Sleep Over
Tulane Law
Rape
#MeToo I am 1
Ruined
My Husband Was My Attacker
Weak
היי לינור
Fled the Country
I don’t know if I was raped
Ended in Rape
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
Why: A Poem About My Rape
Raped by a work colleague
My Life History
My boyfriend of 2 years
I Dated My Rapists
Unethical or illegal?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
An Unknown Face & Hands
Mi Historia
I Didn’t Know I Was Raped
End of Innocence
Stolen Innocence
I Said No
Just little girls
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Rape
Consent, control and consequences
I Trusted Him
Survivor
Every Way Imaginable
Rock It!

But what really happened?
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Drunk and taken advantage of
Incapacitated Still
Multiple Times
Broken Trust
Everyone loves him
raped by my own brother
Family
I Trusted Him
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
My story growing up with a secret
I Didn’t Even Know Him
Shout Out
There Is Hope For Us
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Blamed Myself
Rape
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Too naïve
Agressée deux fois, mais toujours debout.
Ashamed
His Charming Ways
My Two Days of Hell
Broken
Stand Strong
Roommates
Mi Esposa
Day at the Lake
I know when I see a rapist...
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
The Mailman Raped Me
עדיין מציק
Multiple Rape
Did I ask for this?
Proof, but no Witnesses
גבר אלים וחולני
Raped By 6 Policemen
Set Up
“Austin”
I’m Alive
Date rape
Just a Joke
Why Me?
לפני 14 שנים
A Picture
Rape
Ms
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
ללינור היקרה
My so called “best friend”
I’m Alive
LOST
Is It Really Rape?
Don’t Give Up
