#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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No
75 Percent Humidity
Only I get to make choices for...
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Less than a Minute of my Life
Love of My Life?
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Not safe in my own skin
My Brother
Was It Really Rape?
3 Different Times
Still Unable to Tell People
With Love
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Party Time
After Wedding
I am still running
Silenced But Not Forever
Date Rape
To the men who hurt me
לא יוצאים מזה…
3 years on
I don’t know what happened
Confronting My Step-Father
I Thought I Was Safe
It changed me
Raped
Torn
Multiple Times
you do what you gotta
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
Was I Raped?
My Healing Journey
אוףףףף
When no means nothing
לפני 14 שנים
Molestation
Thank You
More Than Once
Date Rape
PART 1: My True, Horrid, and Concluded...
Lessons I’m Learning Late in Life
My Story
Be Aware
I was only 11
I thought you loved me
A Zillion Baths But Still Feel Dirty
A respectable collegue
Rape
His Masterpiece
Brother & Sister
Sex doll
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Graduation Night
An Unknown Face & Hands
Thought He Was A Friend
I Was Only 14
A Fruit, a Holy Building, and a...
Step Dad
The Night I Wished Never Happened!!
Still Need Help
Mi Esposa
Holiday Rape
Mi Historia
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Need advice
A Voice to be Heard
Raped Three Times
The Statistics that Changed Me
I thought he was a friend
It Was My Mom
Raped By a Female
No means yes to some
It wasn’t my fault
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Confused
Seis Años
Erase and Rewind
Ms.
Married My Rapist
Thank You
Who I Once Called My Father
Alone No Longer, Brave Till the End
He Was My Boyfriend
So drunk I can’t remember
With Love
In Five Years
The Cliche
Thank you for speaking out…
Shout Out
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
I wish she wouldve helped me
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
My Story
Unethical or illegal?
My Rape
Too Close for Comfort
Getting Better
גבר אלים וחולני
High School Rape
My Father’s Funeral
5
Raped at age 9 & 15
So Many Times
Awareness Among Teenage Boys
My step dad raped me
Drugged and Gang Raped
יש חיים אחרי אונס
I should’ve tried harder to stop it
Endless Shame
When will it be enough?
My year abroad
Male dancer
Start of grooming at 15
Dear Coward
7 years and it still controls me
Locked Up
This is MY story
When will it be enough?
f*ck you
I was 13
היי לינור
I can’t remember if I said yes...
Rape
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Brock and Will
Twice
He took away my innocence
Young and Unaware
Her first job
I Too Was Raped
A Day My Life Changed Forever
I’ve lost my trust with men
I was attacked at 19 years old
Piano Teacher
Manipulation
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
A Letter to My “Family”
5
Secret overload
The First Time
Father Figures
Family
Finally Arrested
Abused By My Father
Travelling
They Laughed
My Mother was raped and told me...
Freaking Scared
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Black Out
Why Me, Time and Time Again
When I Was 8 Years Old
Betrayed By My Own Mind
It Was the Second
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Raped After School
Rape by Boyfriend
He Was My Friend
So Now What?
Warning
Male dancer
Date Rape
My Dad
Frozen in fear
Despedida
Seis Años
An Abnormal Reaction
My Friend
Erase and Rewind
Too naïve
The Day Everything Changed
The cycle
Family Ties
Freshman Year
I Thought I was Safe
Simple games was a way to hide...
Step Dad
I Was Only 7
Use and Throw
My stepfather raped me
I Am Brave

Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
My Life in Foster Care
The First Man In My Life
Did He Rape Me?
16 times
היי
My story growing up with a secret
Roommates
My Rape
I Will Never Forget
Naive College Freshman
First Time
Close Call
You Can’t Trust Anyone
My story
Family
Drugged
Sexual abuse by step father
Not Okay
A Self Destructive Life
I Too Was Raped
I didn’t even know what was happening
De Los 6 a Los 12
Childhood Horror
Don’t Want to Anymore
Brother & Sister
At the Movie’s
Pastor’s Son
Stronger
I know when I see a rapist...
My Story
My Snowball Effect
My Husband Set Me Up!
You were supposed to be my friend
Trusted Him
Unsure
Bleeding Through My Tears
He’s Your Husband, It’s Not Rape
4 Years Ago
Impacted Forever
When does it get easier?
An Embarrassing Situation
En Enero de 2010
A horror that lasts a lifetime
Raped in the Air Force
Blaming Myself
Not all friends are true
Summer 2019
Was it my fault?
Remember November
I Thought I was Safe
It Started With Rape
Doctor Nightmares
Gang Raped
Don’t Want to Anymore
Why Me?
Disappointed
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
A Picture
Rape
ללינור היקרה
He Took My Virginity
My Evil Brother
My Life, My Achievement
ptsd
Overcome It
My year abroad
עדיין מציק
Girls Without Parents
Multiple Rapes
My story
Gang Raped
The First Time
Swept under the carpet
כמוני כמוך
College Rape
Myself
הסיפור שלי…
3x
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Hospitalized
Wanted Love But Got Rape
Boy scout of america
An older, popular boy
No One Is Who They Appear To...
My Only Brother
Co-worker
Some Friend
Spoke out and was blamed
My Fight
3 Times is Not Charming
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Molested By Two Uncles
Why Me, Time and Time Again
my story
Myself
Fenced In
Sexist Families Leave Girls Vulnerable to Rape
Just Words
I’m Not Sure
It never stops changing you and thats...
הטרידו אותי
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
My survival story
Messed Up
I’m Doing You a Favor
Rape
Will I ever get over it.
Too naïve
3 Times is Not Charming
Breaking the Trust
Family Member
Finally Sharing
Raped and Molested
Rape
Childhood Trauma
Literal Hell
My Multiple-Offender Rape
I’m a Victor, not a Victim
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
I Choose Hope

