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Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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5.0

Literally begging anyone and everyone to read this. What an incredible memoir. Chanel does not hold back in her account of what happened to her before, during, and after the Brock Turner trial. I was in tears throughout the book. Her story is a reminder of the difficulty women face in speaking up against their abuser even if there is damning evidence and proof everywhere you look.

I remember hearing about this trial occurring and the events of the 2016 election so vividly as she slowly discusses how her survivor story happened during such a crucial time in the world.

Hearing her narrate this book made this experience so much more powerful, especially when she read her 12-page victim impact statement where she had to continue to pause while reading and you could hear the emotion in her voice and delivery of the speech.

A reminder to listen to victims and survivors. And you know nothing of what someone is going through.

CW: rape, sexual assault, sexual violence

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challenging emotional medium-paced

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emotional inspiring medium-paced

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Chanel Miller’s memoir about the aftermath of her assault at a college frat party is a powerful and devastating read as she goes into her experience of being forced to fight in the legal system instead of being allowed time to heal. She articulates the inexcusable double standards that survivors are held to and what it feels like to exist as a woman with painful accuracy. While this is by no means an easy read because of the content, it is so well written that I couldn’t put it down.

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Stellar book. Sadly, I didn’t super feel like I was learning things I didn’t already know. My heart goes out to Chanel, and I genuinely think this is a book that everyone should read. Truly, I don’t feel like I can fairly give a judgement because the power of her story and how she tells it speaks for itself

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense

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As my second read of 2024, this follows up Jon Krakauer’s Missoula. This was an intentional choice on my part as I wanted to continue my journey of truth seeking. Missoula acts as a microcosm to examine sexual violence on campus and acquaintance rape, weaving many stories together. Know My Name is one story but, astonishingly, it reaches out and connects with all stories. The latter chapters specifically discuss cases that rose up after Channel testified, as well as pays respect to the women who came before her.

I was a Bay Area High School Senior the year Channel was raped by Brock Turner, and then a college Freshman when his absurd sentencing unfolded. Six months, but out after three. I’ll never forget it as long as I live. The injustice burned something inside me and whenever a rape trial occurs I think about Brock.

Channel was anonymous in the four years following her rape. In my mind, Emily Doe was a girl like me and in some ways I was right; born in June, Bay Area native, an artist, a writer. What I never knew, and could never know, was how wholly individual she is. Can you ever fully know a person, in all their complexities? Channel shares so much of herself in her memoir, takes healing into her own hands to reclaim her voice and her name.

There were some moments where the writing didn’t work for me (mainly some of her metaphors), but how can I complain when so much more of the book was insightful, inspiring, difficult but important? And what does it matter when so much more had me highlighting and saying, yes you are so right.

I do not owe him my success, my becoming, he did not create me. The only credit Brock can take is for assaulting me, and he could never even admit to that.

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