Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story 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 against another edition

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 against another edition

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 against another edition

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 against another edition

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