#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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My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Respect Our Elders
Nearly 50 years later
In Five Years
A Loss to Mankind
We were drunk
En Enero de 2010
Used
Abuse Continued
Why: A Poem About My Rape
All Just Too Much
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
I Thought I Was Safe
My cousins friend
Babysitters
Unethical or illegal?
My Brothers Two Best Friends
A Lifetime of #MeToo – How Sexual...
Hurt and Anger
My Husband Set Me Up!
Thank You
Why Didn’t You Stop Him?
Betrayed By My Own Mind
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
@ years of rape and being drugged
I WAS RAPED BY SEVERAL
Abusive Uncle
Be Aware
3 Times is Not Charming
I was a child
היי לינור
So Many Times
The Statistics that Changed Me
I Was Only 7
He was my best friend
Afraid of Being Judged
Hidden Emotions
En Enero de 2010
You are going to show me how...
My 18th Birthday
כמוני כמוך
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
One in Four
No Longer Keeping the Peace
Nashville Sweetheart
Raped by my boyfriend
Sexually abused by my father
I Need to Tell Someone
Kibbutz
הטרידו אותי
Hateful
I thought you loved me
Too afraid to say no
13 and 16
My message to all
Letter to My Rapist
The Girl Who Went To College
Raped by my Stepfather
More Than a Survivor
My Rape
The Party
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Still Rape
Survivor
25 years of fear
My story growing up with a secret
5
My Mom
Army
יש חיים אחרי אונס
My Story
my story
Rape Victim / Rapist in Hollywood
Male dancer
Sexual Abuse
Raped When I Was 12
The Devil You Know
Attempted rape
#MeToo 5 years later…
Unicorns
Mi Historia
Panic Attack
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
The Night It All Changed
Amusement Park
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
My Story
Raped in my own bed
f*ck you
The pain that was never mine to...
My Step Brother Raped Me
Heart broken
Molested
How I Was Raped
לפני 14 שנים
Can Anyone Help?
My teacher and my step-brother
My Girlfriend of Two Years
Black and Blue
I loved my job
Love of My Life?
Bringing the Stories to Light
Lightening Does Strike Twice
It’s my fault
I Never Give Up

De Los 6 a Los 12
He doesn’t even know he raped me
CPS Let My Rapist Walk Free
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
Confusion
My Story
Sexual Assault
Survivor



