Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

35 reviews

saracatalyst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Suicide, Misogyny, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Police brutality, and Vomit

sophia2203's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is inspiring, heart-wrenching and heartwarming, enlightening, strong, emotional, and NECESSARY. This book should be mandatory in schools/ universities. I can not begin to understand what Chanel went through, but there were many parts I identified as a woman. By telling going through what she did, letting her statement get published (how I “discovered” her), and then publishing this book, she has been a lighthouse to many people around the world—myself included. Thank you Chanel. I know your name.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Rape, Mental illness, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

bookishtaleyys's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Misogyny

Moderate: Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Mass/school shootings

biblioghoul's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Bullying, and Rape

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, and Mass/school shootings

alexxxxandra's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Medical content, and Rape

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Vomit

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Self harm, Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, and Excrement

zakcebulski's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Body shaming, Bullying, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Grief, and Medical content

ciaraw8787's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Xenophobia and Alcohol

Minor: Racism, Body shaming, and Suicidal thoughts

ednam0dewannabe's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Misogyny

Minor: Blood and Emotional abuse

jz724's review

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, and Body shaming

nebraskanwriter's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

“I encourage you to sit in that garden [at Stanford] but when you do, close your eyes, and I’ll tell you about the real garden, the sacred place. Ninety feet away from where you sit there is a spot where Brock Turner’s knees hit the dirt, where the Swedes tacked him to the ground, yelling ‘What the f*** are you doing? Do you think this is okay?’ Put their words on a plaque. Mark that spot, because in my mind  I’ve erected a monument. The place to be remembered is not where I was assaulted, but where he fell, where I was saved, where two men declared stop, no more, not here, not now, not ever.”   

“This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always keep finding a way to keep going.” 

I had to set this book down many times because of all the intense emotions it made me feel. I felt so angry over how the justice system fails victims, how Stanford failed Chanel and then tried to patch it up by creating a garden where she was raped, the emotional weight her, her family and friends endured all throughout the trial and to this day. 

This was a very hard book to read but too often as a society, we smooth over the cracks in our facade and look away from the pain, only wanting to see this idealistic and perfect thing. We ignore the bad, rewarding the society-accepted “good”. Chanel didn’t have the option to ignore the bad that was thrust onto her, she experienced society’s bad at full capacity. Seeing her shine a light on it, pulling back the curtain of what she went through to expose the cracks in our legal system, colleges and media, it was a much needed reality check. 

Thank you, Chanel, for writing this book. Thank you for sharing your story with us all and continuing to fight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence