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Name: Know My Name
Rating: 4.6 (31 reviews)
Author: Chanel Miller

Chanel Miller

A Memoir

4.6 (31 Bewertungen)

26 Min.

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'Know My Name' by Chanel Miller is a powerful memoir that chronicles the author's journey of healing and reclaiming her identity after surviving sexual assault. It is a moving account of the trauma and its aftermath, and a call for change in the justice system.

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What’s in it for me? Learn about a courageous woman’s fight for justice.

What’s it like to be at the center of a widely publicized rape trial and, at the same time, have no one know who you really are?

When Chanel Miller stood up against the man who sexually assaulted her, she discovered how profoundly disempowering it was to lose her real name. During the long court battle against college student Brock Turner, she was referred to as “Emily Doe,” “the victim,” or worse, “Brock Turner’s victim,” as if she somehow belonged to her rapist.

Instead of being seen as her own person, she had to stand quietly by while the press and defense lawyers decided how to portray her.

In the blinks that follow, you will get a personal look into the life of a formidable woman and artist who endured a terrible assault and made it her mission to find a way to heal. In so doing, she shed light on other women’s experiences of sexual assault and the way that the US court system lets them down.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why Chanel Miller learned about the details of her assault through a news article;
how doing stand-up comedy became an important part of her healing process; and
what inspired Vice President Joe Biden to write her a personal letter.

Chanel Miller learned about the details of her sexual assault through a news report – over a week after it had happened.

On January 17, 2015, Chanel Miller and her younger sister Tiffany went to a fraternity party on Stanford University campus. Chanel wasn’t crazy about the idea of going to a wild student party – she’d already graduated and wanted to concentrate on her career developing educational apps for an NGO. But she really wanted to spend time with her sister, who was visiting for the weekend, so she decided to tag along.

When they arrived at the party, there was loud music, lots of drinking, and the usual array of boisterous students. Chanel danced and drank some vodka. At one point, she and her sister went outside to use the bathroom. That’s the last thing she remembers.

The next morning, Chanel woke up in a strange room, with a police officer sitting next to her. She feared that she’d passed out in one of the campus buildings and been escorted to this room to sober up.

But some things didn’t add up. She was wearing unfamiliar drawstring pants. And when she went to use the bathroom, she was shocked to find that she wasn’t wearing the underwear she’d left home with either. Her hair was full of dirt, twigs, and leaves, and her body was covered in bruises and abrasions.

The police were strangely evasive when Chanel asked them what had happened. They told her that two students had cycled past a man who was doing something to her while she was passed out that “looked wrong.” One police officer told her that the students were so upset by what they had seen that they’d broken down crying several times in the interview room. Something serious had happened. But what was it?

When Tiffany came to pick her up, she was distraught. She said she had gone to check on a sick friend and suddenly couldn’t find Chanel anywhere. She’d spent the night searching for her, to no avail.

Ten days later, Chanel was drinking coffee at her desk at work. Out of the blue, she received a text from her sister, letting her know that there were stories about her assault in the news. She went online and saw an article that finally revealed to her the details that no one else had: a Stanford student had been charged with raping and assaulting her. On her computer screen, she saw her rapist’s face for the first time.

When the article about her rape made the rounds, readers seemed to blame Chanel for her own assault.

From the news article, Chanel learned that she’d been found half-naked and passed out next to a dumpster behind the fraternity where the party had taken place. While she was unconscious, a Stanford student, Brock Turner, had sexually assaulted her. Two Swedish students who were cycling by discovered him in the act. Turner tried to run away, but the students chased him and wrestled him to the ground. A bystander called the police, who arrested Turner.

When she read the article, Chanel was convinced that any other reader would be as horrified as she was. How on earth could someone rape an unconscious woman? How did this man lose all sense of morality?

Because very few people knew she was the victim, Chanel began living an isolating double life.

In the immediate aftermath of Chanel’s rape, her sister was the only person who knew what had happened. Chanel couldn’t even bring herself to tell her parents or boyfriend.

When she and her sister were young, her parents had always tried to protect them from upsetting information. Once, two weeks before Christmas, their family cat Dream went missing. Chanel and her sister searched for him late into the night, shining their flashlights into the fields near their house in Palo Alto, but couldn’t find him anywhere.

Seeking justice in court was a traumatic process that made Chanel feel violated all over again.

Rape cases are notoriously hard to try due to lack of evidence, which is why most of them don’t even reach court. Chanel’s case had more evidence than most because reliable eyewitnesses had caught Brock Turner in the act and managed to catch him when he tried to escape. Chanel was treated by competent nurses in assembling her rape kit and worked with an excellent team of detectives. She was also represented in court by a renowned assistant district attorney, Alaleh Kianerci.

But in spite of having a strong case and great legal team, Chanel found the trial traumatic and exhausting.

Justice was served by the jury, but Chanel was let down by the judge who sentenced Brock Turner.

Winning the trial was a tremendous victory for Chanel and her legal team. However, Brock Turner would still need to be sentenced by Judge Aaron Persky, who presided over the case.

Prosecutors recommended that Turner be given six years in prison based on the seriousness of the assault, the fact that Chanel was unconscious, and because he had tried to run away.

When Chanel’s victim impact statement went viral, she realized how much public support she had.

Chanel had poured everything into writing the victim impact statement. It was profoundly demoralizing for her that it had fallen on deaf ears in court. But she couldn’t have predicted the impact her statement would have outside the courtroom walls.

Someone she knew had a contact at Buzzfeed who asked if she could release Chanel’s full victim impact statement. Chanel doubted that it would be read by anybody, but she gave her permission.

The assault had long-term psychological consequences with which Chanel still struggles.

Chanel’s victim statement was powerful and full of conviction. But in reality, she didn’t always feel as bold and courageous. In her everyday life, she was still dealing with the trauma of the rape and the trial.

She experienced waves of grief, anguish, and panic, which left her completely debilitated. She was chronically sleep-deprived because she was afraid of not being able to protect herself and fight off an attacker in her sleep.

Healing from the assault is an ongoing process.

Victims of sexual assault are often expected to present their stories as linear journeys from suffering to recovery, but real healing doesn’t work that way. Chanel’s healing continues to be a slow and difficult process. Luckily, she found several important sources of support.

Perhaps one of the most important factors in her healing was the love of her family and her boyfriend, Lucas. Her parents and sister were unwaveringly warm and supportive, creating a nest for her to retreat to whenever she felt worn out from stress and trauma.

Chanel started to see her struggle as political rather than personal.

Chanel had felt profoundly isolated as a sexual assault survivor battling in court. But when activist groups such as RISE, an organization for victims of sexual assault, started reaching out to her, Chanel started seeing herself as part of a movement of other survivors.

She realized that her treatment at the hands of the defense and press was not unusual. Blaming victims of sexual violence for their own assault is part of a deeply entrenched pattern in our society.

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In Know My Name (2019), Chanel Miller presents her side of what happened when she was sexually assaulted by Stanford student Brock Turner and forced to endure a long and traumatizing trial in the public eye. Drawing parallels between her own experience and the structural mistreatment of women in the court system, she explains what made her determined to share her story and empower other survivors.

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If punishment is based on potential, privileged people will be given lighter sentences.

—Chanel Miller

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People who want to learn more about the experience of sexual assault survivors in the US court system
Memoir-lovers who want to be inspired by the story of a remarkable woman
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Über den Autor

Chanel Miller is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with a degree in literature. The “victim statement” she wrote to explain the impact that Brock Turner’s sexual assault has had on her life was published by Buzzfeed and has been read over 18 million times. Know My Name is Miller’s first book.

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