#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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Raped After School
The children are the priority here
Prom’s ideals
Dads boss daughter!!!!!!
Moving on Alone from Rape
I Trusted Him
A Private College; A Private Rape
My step dad raped me
Sleepraping
My first love
Ms.
I didn’t break up with him back...
I Never understood
4th grade
He used me. He left me.
Lightening Does Strike Twice
Twice
Sexual Assault
My boyfriend of 2 years
The Statistics that Changed Me
When does it end?
היי לינור
My Daughter
Domestic Abuse
How it makes me feel 5 years...
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
Sex doll
Only I get to make choices for...
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
Lasting Effects
Say Something
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Why was it my fault?
Long way back
I finally said NO
My Two Cents
Mi Esposa
My Childhood
Nine Years Worth of Abuse
My Story
Spousal Rape
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
my story
The First Time
He Was A Police Officer
I Didn’t Want to Do It
First Crush
I Was Stupid
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
The summer between 6th and 7th grade
#IStandWithHer
I Was Raped By An Stranger
I thought he was a friend
A story never told
University Bar
Normalization
I still see him on campus
Why does this keep happening to me?
My story growing up with a secret
Too naïve
My Ongoing Journey
I Was Only 7
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Once When I Was 6, Once When...
The Story Of Two Rapes
rape
They asked if I was lying
The Night That Changed My World
Sex doll
Do I even belong here?
Uncomfortable
Its Got To STOP!
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Stronger Every Day
My Story
It was not my fault
Why Me?
Raped and Numbed
I let it happen twice
En Enero de 2010
Happy Survivor
Didn’t Realize It
Rape by Boyfriend
LOST
I Am Beautiful Now
Raped at a Birthday Party
The year that changed me
You made me feel like I was...
16 Years Later
Male dancer
Years in Denial
We Stand Together
A sociopath in disguise
BoR Amendment VI – Protecting Rapists in...
My Brother
Keep it to myself
So drunk I can’t remember
We Were Kids
I didn’t think she would do this
I’m a Survivor because I am a...
Losing My Virginity to a Campus Rape
Party Time
Erase and Rewind
I didn’t know it was rape, I...
Date Rape
Choir Camp
An Embarrassing Situation
#MeToo, too
Day at the Lake
He was right
Worthless
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I think I was raped
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Abused By My Father
My First Two Times
What Was I Thinking?
Childhood trauma and overcoming it
Set Up
I Hate My Father
I Am a Survivor
What sent me over the edge
Assaulted
April 19th
Raped at the Air Force Academy
An older, popular boy
Myself
Stranger Rape
I Am A Survivor
Speaking Up
I Thought I Could Trust Him
Nobody Knew
Thank you
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
I called him my friend
יש חיים אחרי אונס
My boss
Spoke out and was blamed
Ketamine Rape
To my best friend who raped me
The Fight We Can All Win
Sexual Assault
Seis Años
Mother and Son
Confusion
He doesn’t even know he raped me
Sexually abused by my father
Find Your Strength
This is MY story
Was it rape?
Time Stood Still
You Were My Friend
Despedida
A story of a not so perfect...
Raped by my boyfriend
4 Years Ago
I was 14
Surpris à la Maison
My Ex-husband
היי
Hundreds of Times
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
Ended in Rape
Since Age 6?
Is It Really Rape?
My “Uncle” Raped Me
A Message from the Director
Nashville Sweetheart
What Is Success?
Raped twice within a few hours
I was 14
Family Member
40 years
My experience of societal views on victims...
A letter to him
My Life
Faded Memories
Just Words
My Friend’s House
Was Told to Shut My God Damn...
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
Sexually assaulted at 4
Touched
Mi Historia
Was It My Fault?
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Friend of mines set me up
My survival story
Being Done
My Rape
I know when I see a rapist...
Daycare
I just wanted to give him a...
St. Louis Riots
Raped by a work colleague
My principal mom raped me
One week and three days
My rape story
Former partner would berate me
Still Unable to Tell People
A Story
My rape story
My story
Unethical or illegal?
My Last Party
Child Rape
Raped in the Air Force
Two Friends and Two Boys
Date rape
I Trusted Him
A respectable collegue
Piano Teacher
Too Far
My teacher and my step-brother
My Fears Do Not Define Me
Digging my own grave
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
I dont know what to call it
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Mistaken Identity
לפני 14 שנים
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
College Professor
Stop
Thank you for being LOUD!
ללינור היקרה
Letter to My Rapist
Dad Raped Me
Rape
Abused By A Therapist
Too Many Times
גבר אלים וחולני
Scared
Me too…
The Summer of 2013
It never goes away
I met evil at a young age
I Am Brave

