#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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Drugged and Gang Raped
I Said No
Happy Birthday
Help!! What Can I Do?
Happily Married, Rape Survivor
Love of My Life?
my grandmas friend’s son raped me
I wish I never knew
Childhood Trauma
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Younger me
I Hate You
My experience as an intern in highschool
Never Seemed Worth Telling
I Didn’t See It In Time
Still Think It Was My Fault
The Statistics that Changed Me
Is It My Fault?
Over 40 years Ago
It Started with my Brother
A Family Member Sexually Took Advantage Of...
This is my story
Gang raped foolishly
My Fight
Molested by my biological father
On the Way Home
I Recorded my Rapist
Raped By Boyfriend
Sexually Assaulted
Rape
Off My Shoulders
Betrayed By My Husband
Family Ties
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
Broken
3 incidents
16 times
I still don’t know
The Night My Life Changed
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
Too naïve
Is this normal?
Is There Still Hope
Scammer
Don’t Want to Anymore
היי לינור
I dont know what to call it
Trapped In a Fantasy World
Date rape
A Year After
I am More than a Victim
Raped At 15
Was it Really Rape
Why Me Over and Over?
My Story
Molested and Confused
This is MY story
Lasting Effects
Rape & Sexual Assault
I felt like it didn’t count because...
Another Victim
my story
4 Years Ago
A Girl Who Cried Wolf
My Husband Set Me Up!
The Day I Was Raped and Abandoned
Assaulted
My Ex Husband – My Biggest Enemy
Naive
The Healing Process
Young and Unaware
No one helped me !!!
“Me too” On Facebook
My Story
Amusement Park
A familiar fight
My Story
The Devil You Know
7 Months
Ms.
Pastor’s Son
A Victim No Longer
Isn’t Any Proof
Assault
Our Stories & Pain Are Valid
Too Close
Myself
Don’t Know What I’m Doing
How Brave Miss World Changed My Life
Raped at 16
40 years
He had my pants down
I didn’t even know I was pregnant
Seis Años
Because of You
Choir Camp
An Unknown Face & Hands
Don’t Give Up

I said no
My Two Days of Hell
Erase and Rewind
Thank you for being LOUD!
A respectable collegue
…
“Trust me, take a chance”
No one cared until I made them
Raped in the Air Force
The Wolf and His Rabbit
Freshman Year
A learning experience
ללינור היקרה
Sex doll
Hidden Emotions
Sexual abuse by step father
No Stranger
#MeToo I am 1
Abusée par un voisin de mes grands...
Say Something
Set Up
He Was A Police Officer
James
Despedida
16 and 45
I Was Only 7
Cousin’s Sexual Abuse
He Lied
I guess it was rape
It was in a society that told...
Lightening Does Strike Twice
We met at the bar
f*ck you
Survivor
