Reviews with content warning for Sexual violence - Know My Name

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abadwal's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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bloomingbookworm's review

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challenging emotional hopeful sad

5.0

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mimo_'s review against another edition

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4.5

its hard to review a memoir bc its not just a made up story but smn that actually happened and i dont want to discount her experience but i will say i liked her writing and how she goes through everything that happened to her and the effects of it

i did leave a lot of rants in a buddy read and i did end up googling the case and reading the entire wiki page jdsjxndnxn

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justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

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4.75

“We don’t fight for our own happy endings. We fight to say you can’t. We fight for accountability. We fight to establish precedent. We fight because we pray we’ll be the last ones to feel this kind of pain.”

I honestly have no words. This is a phenomenal book. But, it is quite heavy as well, due to Miller's narrative style and the subject matter. I listened to this as an audiobook and the experience was something else. I only have one quote highlighted here, but there are so many others that I could have used. This book made me angry, frustrated, sad, disgusted, and also happy for so many reasons. The suffering that victims experience is unimaginable. The justice system that perpetuates this is also absolutely disgusting and it needs to change. If more people speak out, and write stories that need to be told, it just might do that.

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wiebke_0603's review against another edition

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5.0

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blizzardinsummer's review

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5.0

Thank you, Chanel, for sharing your story and standing up for fellow survivors of sexual assault. Your words are powerful. You are powerful.

This was one of the most heart wrenching and beautifully written memoirs I’ve read. It’s a must read for everyone, especially survivors and people who know a survivor, and trust me, even if you don’t think you know one, you likely do, they just haven’t shared that part of their lives with you.

And if you are a survivor yourself, know that you are not alone. Chanel is with you. I am with you. All of us are with you.

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alexandramillar's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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khandle3's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

“i learned being assaulted was expensive”

overall: get f*cked if you don’t believe women, and chanel, i believe you and i know your name.

more specifically: brock (guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault since fingering without consent wasn’t legal rape in california at the time of the assault) and his father (defender of sexual assault) can rot in hell. his dad saying “the verdict” ruined brock’s life as opposed to brock ruining his own life by raping someone. saying brock has never been violent, even though he sexually assaulted someone — you idiot, how is that not violent? brock himself saying he’d do everything he could to educate people on the dangers of alcohol, as if drunkenness is an excuse for touching people without their consent. all that to say: they can truly rot in hell.

i’m also disgusted by the women who reviewed this book and said it was “unbelievable how many times she says she was sexually harassed.” i’m very glad you have not experienced as much, but that doesn’t make your experience the believable range of sexual harassment.

my own reflection: i remember the first time a man assaulted me. the details about what i was wearing, if i’d been drinking, if i’d said no, (insert horrible line of questioning here) do not matter. what matters is this: an adult man groped a teenager in broad daylight, with witnesses, and saw nothing wrong with that.

i long for the day when our society teaches men to not rape and/or sexually assault women rather than telling women how to protect themselves from sexual violence.

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