#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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Scar
Holding It In
Weak
Red Flags
Just Friends
Raped By 6 Policemen
Torn
Someone so close to me
The First time I shared…
keep it a secret
An Unknown Face & Hands
My story growing up with a secret
לא יוצאים מזה…
Myself
Multiple Sexual Assaults
Too Far
Pretty Girls
4 Days Before 16th Birthday
I Didn’t Even Know Him
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
A Different MeToo
A Self Destructive Life
They Laughed
I met evil at a young age
I Didn’t Choose This Life
Still Can’t Believe It
Confused for Too Long
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
Sexual Abuse in a Relationship
Why Me Over and Over?
Piece
He Was My Best Friend
Rape
A School Trip
Some Friend
De Los 6 a Los 12
So Now What?
It never goes away
Survivor of child molestation and date rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
(Part of) My Story
My Story
It is not my fault
The Statistics that Changed Me
Growing Past Just Surviving
The Statistics that Changed Me
Sex doll
Raped By Boyfriend
When I Was 7
Two Continents, Two Different Men!
The Worst Feeling
A Life of Pain
Despedida
My Step Brother Raped Me
My Army Fiance
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Sexual Assault
Rude awakening
Mi Esposa
Stress
Poetry
LOST
My mom’s boyfriend assaulted me and my...
What’s Done Is Done
The Fight We Can All Win
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
*rape
Still Need Help
I Thought He Loved Me
I Came Home
First Time Sharing
Date Rape
I Woke Up In The Tub
Still Unable to Tell People
Help
my story
You Can’t Trust Anyone
Broken Trust
I Was Only 14
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
A Nightmare
Family members ex husband
Invictus
Coping with rape during a pandemic
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Rape?
Multiple Rapes
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My Daughter and I Both
raped as a lone solidier in israeli...
True Tales No One Knows
But what really happened?
I don’t know what happened
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Spoke out and was blamed
My story of my date rape
You Didn’t Break Me
i was a child.
I know when I see a rapist...
I Trusted Him
Sexual Abuse
I Am A Survivor
אוףףףף
Drugged and Raped at Age 14
3 incidents
The One I Trusted
Raped by my cousin
גבר אלים וחולני
Mi Esposa
A familiar fight
J’avais 13 ans
Unhealthy Relationship
Kidnapped
I Was Raped as a Child
לפני 14 שנים
Christmas Horror
The Monster With The Pretty Smile
Digging my own grave
I let it happen twice
Ms.
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Rock It!


