#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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ITS BEEN 18 YEARS
Manipulation
My first love
The Statistics that Changed Me
Shattered
LOST
Night of Psychedelic Horror
I Thought I was Safe
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
The “R” Word
אוףףףף
Trying to Survive
Gang Rape
raped by my own brother
Too naïve
I Am A Survivor
An Embarrassing Situation
Salted Wound
My Story
To my best friend who raped me
April 2015
School Prom
I Never Give Up

Broken
לא יוצאים מזה…
Workplace Sexual Harassment
The Night That Changed Me
“You were lucky”
my sexual abuse story that i kept...
My story growing up with a secret
With Love
You Were My Friend
College Campus Rape
This Is My Story
Hard to Trust
Rape
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Why Me?
Student Exchange
I Thought I was Safe
He bought me chips and sent me...
She Should Be Over It
Confused by Rape
I Felt So Helpless
I Pretend Like I Don’t Remember…But I...
I know when I see a rapist...
The Power of Victimization
Dad Raped Me
Never Be the Same Again
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Michelle Johnston
What am I doing wrong
Sex doll
Raped By 6 Men
My Boyfriend Raped Me
Locked Up
4 Years Ago
I was 13, he was my first...
Let Down
Drugged
The Boys Club Continues
Just Words
Around 9 PM
Rape
Someone Close to You
Politeness Serves No One
Gang rape and further sexual assaults
Why Me, Time and Time Again
Thank you for being LOUD!
Scar
He took away my innocence
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
Shelter My Soul
הסיפור שלי…
עדיין מציק
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
En Enero de 2010
So drunk I can’t remember
Overcome It
School Rape
Trapped
My 21st Birthday
Moving On
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Mi Esposa
Locked Up
Speaking Up for Women
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Justice
People You Do Not Know
Cavemen
Mi Historia
Raped Husband
Dirty Whore
I Recorded my Rapist
A Difference Perspective
My Rapes
My story
High School Orientation
What Happened?
Sexual assault
Why Me, Time and Time Again
Date Rape
Twenty Years of Hell
Raped in Foster care
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Childhood Rape
My Fight
Middle School
Forever Silent
I guess it was rape
Confronting My Step-Father
Victim of Abuse
No Justice
One Morning
Not Safe in Your Own Family
Six months in the making..
Unicorns
Mine Was Different
Breaking the Trust
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Thank you for being LOUD!
It Was My Fault
Rape by Boyfriend
My Best Friend’s Brother
University Bar
Fenced In
What Is Success?
Brother & Sister
Hated Myself
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Speak Up
My Brother
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
Never a Victim; Only Myself
The Night That Changed My Life
A Victim No Longer
Twenty Years of Hell
They Laughed
A Journal of a Wayward Child
An Unknown Face & Hands
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Rape
I Didn’t See It In Time
So long, I’ll be seeing you everywhere
Feeling Alone
A respectable collegue
Fraternity gang rape
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Let Down
Sexually assaulted at 4
Black Girl
I wanted to get high
Deja Vu
A young mother
Afraid of Being Judged
Boyfriend Hell
True View
Incest & Date Rape
כמוני כמוך
Michelle Johnston
Why
Multiple Times
I’m Not Sure
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
5
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
The pain that was never mine to...
Was I raped?
It’s Been Eight Years
My Rape Stories
Raped by Brother
What happened to me doesn’t have to...
Raped By a Female
Ashly’s story
He raped me. I hugged him goodbye...
We met at the bar
My biggest mistake
The pain behind smile
Freshman Year
Afraid, Ashamed and Alone
37 Years Ago
I Am a Survivor…
Something so Horrible Could Make Me This...
Rape
Rape
Young and Unaware
Mrs
I did Not need to know this
Not all friends are true
היי לינור
My story
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Raped By a Friend
Raped in College
Memories
Another kid raped me
Male dancer
My Ongoing Journey
Molested By Two Uncles
The First Time
My message to all
Cafeteria Food
Braver

