#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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Stranger Danger
A Lifetime
Rape
Sex doll
1 in 5
i was pulling my shorts up
I’m Not Sure
Disappointed
Multiple Times
Stronger Than You Think
Still Can’t Believe It
Rape Shaming
Just Words
I Lost My Virginity
Mi Esposa
Bringing the Stories to Light
Sexual Assault
Manipulation
My Sister, My Best Friend & Me
I Thought He Loved Me
My Story
I can’t remember if I said yes...
I’m Disgusted
Why Didn’t You Speak Up?
The Touches I Felt
Not normal
With Love
I felt like it didn’t count because...
Sleep Over
My younger brother
לא יוצאים מזה…
An Uber Driver Raped Me
It started with you.
The Party
My story growing up with a secret
My First Time
Forgiving My Rapist
Naive
A Voice to be Heard
Not Alone
f*ck you
Rape
I Was Only 7
Read This Please
He Loved Me
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
I think I was raped
We Live Part of Hell on Earth
The Night That Changed My World
Raped by jail guard
He Was My Father
I was 13
My 21st Birthday
Mi Esposa
University Bar
First College Party
Raped When I Was 12
Raped by my grandfather
Too naïve
Anniversary
Childhood Abuse
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
I Recorded my Rapist
Worst pain of my life
My sisters boyfriend abused me
15
Gang Rape
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
I Blamed Myself
Workplace Sexual Harassment
When I Was 4
I’ve survived sexual abuse
Thank you for being LOUD!
Moving On
I Came Home
Being Raped
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Unicorns
This is my story
Smoke Together
De Los 6 a Los 12
Warning
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
I just wanted to give him a...
Ms.
Still Haven’t Healed
I was raped
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
My First Boyfriend
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Pedophile Neighbour
No
Once? Twice? Five Times?
My Fiancé Destroyed Me
It Was My Fault
They Laughed
When no means nothing
Tel Aviv
My Husband Repeatedly Raped me
School Rape
Rape
My Best Friend’s Brother
“Me too” On Facebook
Why me?
From Grief to Trauma
כמוני כמוך
I Never Thought
Brave Miss(es) Indeed
Why Me?
הטרידו אותי
Unspoken
Rape By My Husband
Childhood
UNEXPOSED – AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXTREME...
Despedida
Anywhere I Go
Locked Up
I Didn’t See It In Time
My protector, my father, my rapist all...
Different face, but the same monster
My Step Father
To the men who hurt me
Childhood rape
I Was Prepared
Invictus
Twice a pattern?
My “Step-father”
I can’t remember if I said yes...
My Rapists I Grew Up With
From Scared Girl to Strong Mother
I Don’t Even Know
BFF’s Husband
I know when I see a rapist...
Red Flags
My Husband thought he was entitled to...
God Saved Me
#MeToo 5 years later…
Confused
Feeling Alone
So drunk I can’t remember
75 Percent Humidity
Set Up
Raped by a so called friend
Afraid of the Truth
My Horrific Nightmare
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
Log
More Than Half of My Life Ago
Finally Sharing
A familiar fight
incest
A Story
לפני 14 שנים
Fost or Fight
My Horrific Nightmare
Realization of Rape
Raped By Family
Multiple Assaults
I Feel So Betrayed
No Wasn’t Good Enough
Virgin Rape
Confronting My Step-Father
Dear My Rapist
Not Really Family
Army
Sexual Coercion
Raped
Men Like Brett Kavanaugh Make It Hard...
Young and Unaware
Someone so close to me
My Friend
Bad Programming
A Victim No Longer
Raped because of who I loved
Why Me?
I dont know what to call it
My Childhood
Roofied
Male dancer
Knowledge is Power
Unsure
Asking for advice
He Never Apologized
No Support
A Night I Can’t Remember
Bartender Lies
My case is different from yours
He Took Advantage of Me
I’m Not Sure
Freshman Year
היי
More Than Once
A Life of Pain
Hundreds of Times
Second Date
A respectable collegue
You Were My Friend
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
Nearly 50 years later
School Bathroom
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
My Two Days of Hell
My Story
My little girl
יש חיים אחרי אונס
It had to be my fault.
I thought we were friends
The Trauma That Made Me
Acceptance
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
My brother let him in
Raped in the Air Force
אוףףףף
Rape
My Beloved Man
…
גבר אלים וחולני
My Scars Do Not Define Me
Say Something
Fishing Trips
What Is Happening
Warrior
Something so Horrible Could Make Me This...
Personal Statement – Written January 2017
Abused By a Relative
What sent me over the edge
Bad Programming
My Boss Raped Me
Hospitalized
Unethical or illegal?
Domestic Rape is Real
Mi Historia
This Is My Story
Babysitter Abuse
Justice
Naive and Vulnerable
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Choose healing over silence
Molested at 8
Holding My Feelings In
Thank You
A Day My Life Changed Forever
My First Boyfriend
The First Time
The Fight We Can All Win
An Orphanage
היי לינור
f*ck you
I should have never meet my biological...
The Statistics that Changed Me
Spoke out and was blamed
My Evil Brother
En Enero de 2010
Letter to…
הסיפור שלי…
How Many Times?
Constant fear
הטרידו אותי
My Ex-husband
Summer 2019
Too naïve
When will it be enough?
J’avais 13 ans
Raped
Assault
Deja Vu
Teatime
Child sexual abuse
I Just Started High School
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Some Friend
Returning to Mexico
Drugged
I still feel like it’s my fault
Almost A Stranger
אוףףףף
You Can’t Trust Anyone
40 years
Believe Her
חיה בשני עולמות מקבילים
Fishing Trips
My Ex-Boyfriend and Rapist
Don’t Give Up
