#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.
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A Meek Young Girl
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Six Year Sentencing Anniversary
My Two Rapes
#IStandWithHer
Summer 2019
I’ve Never Told Anyone Before
I’m Confused
Stranger Rape
עדיין מציק
I Thought He Loved Me
I Told Him No
Confused
I just wanted a friend
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
Healing from Incest
Respect
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
Rape
Too naïve
You Can’t Trust Anyone
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
I Thought I Knew Hi
Raped in my own bed
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Girls Without Parents
Scared
Afraid of Being Judged
Incest & Date Rape
Multiple Times
Just Words
Two times. One year.
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
Hidden But Not Forgotten
Myself
Scared Like Crazy
Infatuation
לפני 14 שנים
Drugged
Family rape
Childhood of assault
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
My Brave Daughter
Shelter My Soul
Brock and Will
My Story
A Lifetime of Trauma
So Now What?
My Daughter and I Both
Hard pregnency and delivery process after being...
My Story.
3 years on
Finally facing it
Drugged
A Fun Night
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I was 5.
Healing and releasing painful memories
Lotus
Rape by Boyfriend
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
I wish I would have been smarter
Mi Esposa
Letter to Senators
Trying to Survive
Kibbutz
What Was I Thinking?
The Silent But Haunting Wounds Of Rape
Don’t Want to Anymore
Sleepraping
Step Dad
They thought it was fun
Black and Blue
You Were Suppose To Protect Me
My husband was molested as a child
Mental Breakdown
When I Was 16
You were supposed to be my friend
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Not A Trustworthy Man
Mi Esposa
So Now What?
Leaving the party
Raped in my own bed
I Didn’t See It In Time
Raped in the Air Force
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
I still see him on campus
In Denial of My Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Swept under the carpet
Because of you
17
Help!! What Can I Do?
This Is My Story
I don’t know anymore
My year abroad
In Denial of My Rape
Ex-Boyfriend
Sexual Assault
Still Confused
I Was Only 7
College Professor
Enough Is Enough
Shame Destroys
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
אוףףףף
I Recorded my Rapist
Molestation
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
But I Was Drunk
Date Rape
Raped After School
Online Dangers
Once? Twice? Five Times?
My Husband Set Me Up!
I know when I see a rapist...
Sexually abused by my step brothers
Hostage
Lightening Does Strike Twice
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Rape and the Aftermath
Robbery
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Six Years of Denial
Time To Tell
Rape Survivor
Raped by boyfriend
Black Girl
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
I Just Need to Tell Someone
Spoke out and was blamed
Raped by a so called friend
Chapter 62
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Does the pain ever go away?
College Rape
Do NOT Trust Strangers
Salted Wound
The First Time
Unspoken
Bringing the Stories to Light
Bus Ride
My Mother was raped and told me...
My story growing up with a secret
Broken Girl
Being Done
Colored Hair and Diamond Tattoo
How can we make it stop?
My little girl
Victim of sexual assault
Surviving sexual assault trauma
Restoring Innocence
My Horrific Nightmare
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
3 incidents
But I Was Drunk
Feeling Alone
7 years and it still controls me
Child sexual abuse
How Many Times?
Hateful
The Trauma That Made Me
I Trusted You
I Need To Share More
“She Didn’t Do Anything”
Bringing the Stories to Light
Life of Trauma
He’s Still Out There
Victim of Abuse
Mi Esposa
Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey
The Night That Changed My World
He was 15
Naive and Raped at 15
Hidden But Not Forgotten
It was never…..That
Incest & Date Rape
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Ms.
Virgin Rape
Red Flags
One in Four
הטרידו אותי
3 Times is Not Charming
Case Dropped by Prosecutor
My Story
Childhood
כמוני כמוך
Assault?
Rape
גבר אלים וחולני
Politeness Serves No One
Under Age drinking
Dream / Recall
Night Out
The Cliche
I loved him
I Was Dating Him
When Is Rape Actually Rape?
A Journal of a Wayward Child
Seis Años
Rape
The same guy
My Best Friend
It was
I was 11
I’m so sorry
The Statistics that Changed Me
Made in America
Just wanted to be loved
In Front of My Girls
Be Aware
my story
I was just 9.
Lasting memories
Mother and Son
Ketamine Rape
Less than a Minute of my Life
My Cousin
Abused by another child
He doesn’t even know he raped me
היי
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
A respectable collegue
There once was love
Why you should talk to your daughters...
“Trust me, take a chance”
I Was Told It Was Normal
Rape
Raped By My Therapist
My survival story
I will never forget
הסיפור שלי…
I am a survivor
Love of My Life?
Touched
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
It was his word against mine
Initiation into adulthood
En Enero de 2010
University Bar
Always the Girls Fault
True View
I Barely Knew Them
I’m Doing You a Favor
Was I Raped?
ללינור היקרה
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Date rape
3 Times is Not Charming
The Setup
Almost A Stranger
“raped” by my long time bf
My Story
Coping with rape during a pandemic
Can Anyone Help?
Stand Strong
MY Inspirational Story
Mi Historia
Despedida
Acceptance
When My Body Wasn’t Mine.
Never Even Knew
Drugged
Erase and Rewind
Something I’ve Never Shared
Read This Please
People don’t think your spouse can rape...
Raped by my Step Brother
Sexual Abuse
Man Raped By Man
I don’t know what to call it…
Are you sure?
7th Grade Assault
Childhood Trauma
Sex doll
It was my ex boyfriend
Date Rape Drug
What sent me over the edge
Halloween Nightmare
Unethical or illegal?
Army
My Story, My Nightmare
I Never Thought
Incest & Date Rape
Sexual Abuse
7 years and it still controls me
They Blamed it on the Tequila
Rape??
He Was a Cop
I Didn’t Let It Kill Me
לא יוצאים מזה…
Sexual Assault
Christmas Horror
Unwanted Flashbacks
So drunk I can’t remember
My Story
The Boys Club Continues
Rape
I Thought He Loved Me
I am J. D. R., and I...
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Amusement Park
Male dancer
Going Through the Emotions
Thought He Was A Friend
When I Was 8 Years Old
It was not my fault
I Was Just a Dancer
so forceful
A Message from the Director
