#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 know when I see a rapist...
Raped by a work colleague
Raped By My Neighbour
No Longer Keeping the Peace
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I Was Only 7
Drugged
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Keep it to myself
To My Rapist
Invictus
He Was My Boss
My Friend
My first boyfriend in the US
Literal Hell
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Just Me………
The pain that was never mine to...
Touched
I Too Was Raped
My story growing up with a secret
11 Years to Justice
Doesnt Think He’s a Rapist
Finally Sharing
Over 40 years Ago
I still see him on campus
Was I raped?
Lost In Time
Looking for a lawyer & advocate
You Didn’t Break Me
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Workplace Sexual Harassment
First “Real” Boyfriend
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
#MeToo, too
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
‘Were you drinking?’
Spoke out and was blamed
Not Okay
Forced to Have Sex with My Boyfriend
To my best friend who raped me
An Orphanage
Shattered Childhood
My story!
Black Girl
The thief
#IAmBrave and together, #WeAreStrong
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Over 40 years Ago
Raped By A Registered Sex Offender
Him or Me
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Becoming Whole
Six months in the making..
So Many Years to Remember
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
I Thought I Was Safe
A person to trust became my worst...
I Need to Tell Someone
Ready to Share
Never Be the Same Again
The Same Effect
I am not a rape victim
Rape survivor
I will not stay silent
The Statistics that Changed Me
Molested
#IStandWithHer
My “Step-father”
slutshamedchild
Family
Too naïve
Everyone blames me
How can we make it stop?
Molested, Tortured, Rape, Survivor
My Mother’s Albatross
First Time
I am a survivor
David and Goliath
blackmailed
My Daughter and I Both
Ms.
Summer 2019
The Boys Club Continues
the scary shadows
My First Time
כמוני כמוך
Abused By My Cousin and Uncle
לפני 14 שנים
BC Oilfield Ruined My Life
Being weak or stupid
i was a child.
Holding My Feelings In
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Constant fear
My Daughter’s Rape
High School Orientation
Mi Esposa
I was only 11
The secret
40 years
I wish I would have been smarter
When will it be enough?
Raped By a Female
Cavemen
De Los 6 a Los 12
Never Again
Relationship does not equal consent
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Prey
My story growing up with a secret
I don’t know anymore
Getting Away
I Am Still Standing
It’s A Long Story
Raped in the Air Force
Kidnapped
Mistaken Identity
My Story of Rape
Feeling Alone
Online dating
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
היי לינור
Hostage
Scars That Heal
My survival story
Quarterly Review
I am a survivor
Unethical or illegal?
Still Hurting
Married to my Rapist
Do NOT Trust Strangers
Drugged raped and failed by justice
Was it my fault
Surviving, Kinda
Child Abuse
Sexual Assault
Raped By 6 Policemen
Secretly Molested
עדיין מציק
A young mother
I guess it was rape
It had to be my fault.
My Boyfriend Raped Me
הטרידו אותי
Trying To Help
My Sexual Assault Story
Charity is it’s own reward
Different face, but the same monster
Bartender Lies
Mi Historia
LOST
ללינור היקרה
Not Living the Life I Once Lived
Quiet for 2 years
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Kept From Us
Lost Dignity
Rape and the Aftermath
Family Member
I’m Doing You a Favor
Raped twice within a few hours
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Aftermath
Still Going
Long way back
Sex doll
42 Years Old
Why?
It’s My Fault
לא יוצאים מזה…
Football Player
Family rape
Closure
אוףףףף
Gang Rape
Male dancer
This Is My Story
Knowledge is Power
Rude awakening
Rape Shaming
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
God Saw You Kill My Two Little...
Because of You
Rape Is Everywhere
One in Four
I was raped
Stockholm
Victim No More
The Other Guy
Two Friends and Two Boys
Rape Victim
Unwanted Flashbacks
I’ll Never Be Whole Again
Survivor

Seis Años
When I Was 7
To protect and serve
Travel
Boyfriend Hell
Survivor
f*ck you
Read This Please
I Thought I Was Safe
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
So Now What?
I Am Still Standing
A respectable collegue
I Am Brave

Forgiving The Rapist
Can Anyone Help?
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
I Thought He Cared
Roofied
Despedida
College Professor
Rape Survivor
Attempt to Rape
The thief
“Me too” On Facebook
Surviving sexual assault trauma
Stronger Every Day
Lasting memories
Remember as a victim you have done...
Not Really Love
Disappointed
End of Innocence
Never Forgotten
Raped
Rape in my locked home
Sexual Abuse
Rock It!

