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A review by adrianajimenez
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
5.0
I usually don't rate memoirs. But holy fucking shit this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read, if not the best.
It took me a week to read this because it was hard, and it was hard because I could feel everything Chanel was saying. She is one of the authors that can actually transmit feelings to the reader, make them feel her fear, her doubt, her happiness. She was able to transport me into her story, like I had been with her all along.
It also took me a week to read this because it was terrifying. For a second there, I doubted whether I should keep reading. I am only 16, should I be exposing myself to this? But then I realized that could have been me. As a teenage girl I could have been the one raped. And that terrified me. The fact that we live in a world where I, not even an adult, should fear not only being raped but also justice not being served. No one should have to fear that.
And if you're a cisgender man, I am begging you to read this. As a cis man, you will not be able to relate to our struggles, but maybe reading this will give you a glimpse of what it feels like to be a woman. Maybe finally you will have some empathy and will not doubt a victim when they come out and say they were raped. And even if you're nonbinary or a woman and also do this, where your first instict is to discredit a victim and ask "what did they do," then you have to read this. Please, just read this.
It took me a week to read this because it was hard, and it was hard because I could feel everything Chanel was saying. She is one of the authors that can actually transmit feelings to the reader, make them feel her fear, her doubt, her happiness. She was able to transport me into her story, like I had been with her all along.
It also took me a week to read this because it was terrifying. For a second there, I doubted whether I should keep reading. I am only 16, should I be exposing myself to this? But then I realized that could have been me. As a teenage girl I could have been the one raped. And that terrified me. The fact that we live in a world where I, not even an adult, should fear not only being raped but also justice not being served. No one should have to fear that.
And if you're a cisgender man, I am begging you to read this. As a cis man, you will not be able to relate to our struggles, but maybe reading this will give you a glimpse of what it feels like to be a woman. Maybe finally you will have some empathy and will not doubt a victim when they come out and say they were raped. And even if you're nonbinary or a woman and also do this, where your first instict is to discredit a victim and ask "what did they do," then you have to read this. Please, just read this.