#chanelmiller

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#RecebidoPago da @amazon Recebi o #livro "Eu Tenho um Nome" - da autora #ChanelMiller. Sinopse - Com uma narrativa emocionante, que prende a atenção do início ao fim, o livro de memórias de Chanel Miller reverbera a dor de tantas mulheres que buscam o caminho da justiça para reparar o trauma do abuso e se veem muitas vezes presas em uma armadilha de humilhações, vergonha e sofrimento. Ela ainda não era conhecida pelo próprio nome quando surpreendeu milhões de pessoas com uma carta relatando o estupro que havia sofrido no campus da Universidade de Stanford. Publicada no BuzzFeed, a declaração da vítima foi vista por onze milhões de pessoas em apenas quatro dias, traduzida para diversos idiomas e lida no plenário do Congresso americano, inspirando mudanças na lei da Califórnia e a demissão do juiz do caso. Brock Turner, o acusado, foi condenado em 2016 a apenas seis meses de prisão depois de ser flagrado agredindo-a sexualmente. Milhares de pessoas escreveram para dizer que ela lhes dera a coragem de compartilhar experiências de agressão pela primeira vez. Agora Chanel Miller reivindica a própria identidade para contar sua história. Embora tudo apontasse para a condenação de Turner ― havia testemunhas, ele fugiu, provas físicas foram imediatamente coletadas ―, restou para Chanel apenas a luta contra o isolamento e a vergonha. Sua história lança luz a uma cultura que protege os agressores e expõe um sistema de justiça criminal falho com os mais vulneráveis, mas mostra também a coragem necessária para lutar contra a opressão e atravessar o sofrimento. Ao entrelaçar dor e resiliência em seu relato, Chanel Miller revela seu tumultuado processo de cura e desafia uma sociedade que tantas vezes permite o inaceitável e ajuda a perpetuar uma cultura que desencoraja as vítimas de buscarem justiça. Além de apresentar uma escritora extraordinária, Eu tenho um nome é uma obra capaz de transformar para sempre a maneira como enxergamos os casos de agressão sexual Eu conheci a história através do #podcast #ModusOperandi da Carol Moreira e Mabe pelo @Spotify, no episódio #069 - "Chanel Miller - a luta de uma vítima de agressão sexual que provocou mudanças na lei" ⬇️Siga https://www.instagram.com/p/Civih8NuwIQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[weare-toobusydancing]

(Swipe para la versión en español) La semana pasada terminé de leer #KnowMyName de @chanel_miller y tuvo muchísimas frases que me gustaron, y quise dibujar esta. Creer que van a venir cosas buenas después de un trauma o una serie de malos sucesos es difícil, pero tenemos que creer en que va a pasar. Decía su madre: “cosas buenas y malas vienen del universo tomándose la mano. Tienes que esperar que las cosas buenas lleguen”. ✨ Libro recomendadísimo por el Club de Lectura Ilustrado por M. 🤓 #bookstagram #libros #chanelmiller #feminism #feminismo #metoo #yotambien #citas https://www.instagram.com/p/CXtbv3vr88F/?utm_medium=tumblr

[idrislibrary]

Tener necesidades especiales no te hace ser más difícil ni más pedigüeño, sino digno de recibir compasión y amor.

“Tengo un nombre” de Chanel Miller

[singalongs]

"It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do."

—Chanel Miller

[litsavantbookclub]

Know my name Book Review

Hello fellow readers!

Just this past weekend I finished Chanel Miller’s Know my Name, a memoir from the perspective of Emily Doe and her experience of the highly publicized 2015 assault that occurred to her on California’s Stanford University Campus. 

I personally remember reading about the case when at work at a CUNY campus and feeling horrified by the details and lack thereof. I remember the lack of identity and empathy that Emily Doe received from a select audience and the strange headlines regarding the defendant. But I digress.

This book was another perspective that adds to the me too conversation. It was refreshing, beautifully eloquent, and many things left myself tearing up in public on my commute. It is a visceral experience that is best digested. I personally savored it in chunks because it was intense and a lot to process. 

One of the most endearing and relatable things about the book is Miller wanting to protect those closest to her from the fallout. She states that she “...wanted to preserve their peace” (45). She mentions the story of her parents doing their best to not ruin Christmas for her and her sister. Even though they knew what really happened to the cat. And just like her parents, she compartmentalized moments and breakdowns. She would: “do what I had always done: detach, keep going” (44). But much like those jars that she would hide away in her metaphorical basement, they would come back. They would materialize out of thin air and to her dismay she would start the journey again, deep down. 

Miller alludes to her being like one of those departed students from the tracks. She writes: “so on that January morning in 2015...was like being read a letter...it was not about a death on the tracks ...this time, it was my name” (44). I personally remember being that far away from myself. I felt both everything and nothing. And that trauma is hard to describe to others. Miller did so tremendously. It is poignant. And that keenness is sharp and quick to the cut. Miller’s words are as powerful as any weapon but delivered with the soft vulnerability.

Rape, trauma, and the experience of being a victim are just a shortlist of the things that Miller touches on. Moreover, she also highlights the way society and education connect to mental illness. The complex way that things get put on hold and how we as human beings are not supposed to drop the ball even when we’re suffering. This is mentioned as one of the ways that Miller developed her coping mechanism of dissociating from the painful realities of the world: “...we settled for perpetual numbness.” (43). The content states the way Miller and her classmates were urged and encouraged to move on with their lives regardless of the fact that many of their acquaintances and friends were killing themselves. One day they were there, the next gone. No explanation or further harping of the “ugly truth.” 

This “perpetual numbness” echoed the idea that even though lives were being lost and morale was low students shouldn’t and eventually couldn’t run the risk of pausing. To be pause meant to stop, to stop meant, to lose momentum. This loss of momentum was precious and because you were going against the grain of what was expected of you. It meant there must be something wrong with you. Miller continues: “to be unstable meant to fall behind” (42). This is something that happens to many people but sometimes these moments can wreak havoc on our lives. But we are humans and we are not perfect. Yet it is expected frequently. And the shame that accompanies our failure to meet such expectations are searing. 

Before I get even more ahead of myself, the book was overall, a passionate and poignant account of a woman who lost her voice and identity but found that she always had it. Regardless, of all the smoke and mirrors those determined to tear her down had set up. Approaching the end of her book I’m struck by the following words: “hold up your head when the tears come, when you are mocked, insulted, questioned, threatened, when they tell you you are nothing...” (328). These words will comfort those that have ever been dismissed or sneered at. This empathy can provide guidance and kindness to those who need it.

Rating: 4.25

Keywords: Passionate, poignant, and emotionally wrenching.

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Know My Name . Have you read it? . If not, you really should! . . . . #knowmyname #chanelmiller #booksofinstagram #importantconversations #survivorstory #ausbookstagram #readbyamity #currentlyreading #aussiekiwibooksta #nonfictionbooks #biography (at Wollongong, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKvfA7iAVmb/?igshid=dpccngpyal4c

[oliviacastetter]

This afternoon, I'm reading KNOW MY NAME by Chanel Miller. I'm not too far into it yet, and on page 6, I've already been hit with a shocking dose of familiarity. "Perhaps it is not the particulars of the assault itself that we have in common, but the moment after; the first time you are left alone." I've been assaulted on more than one occasion; I've been assaulted by more than one man. And the moment after I most remember is after my last assault, the one I escaped. I remember sitting on the closed toilet seat, picking glass out of my feet. I left my phone on the counter, texts from a friend coming in every few minutes, but my silenced phone didn't catch my attention. With my eyes open now, I can return to that moment in vivid detail. I remember the anger, the exhaustion, and the isolation. I don't remember the pain, only the facts. Glass. Blood. Gravel. Cuts on my feet. Sweat. Gross, wet underwear. A broken shoe, a black high heel. The smell of old fries. Being thirsty. Then I remember the next moment, the one where I saw dozens of texts from my friend asking how I was doing, what I needed--texts focused on me, not what had just happened. The moment alone was suffocating, and the next moment not completely alone was like coming up for air. . I've read several #memoirs about the aftermath of #sexualassault, and I completely believe Chanel Miller is right in this passage. The moment alone in the after is absolutely a point of familiarity we survivors understand about each other. #metoo❤️ #meetoomovement #chanelmiller #chanelmillerknowmyname #KnowMyName #rapeawareness #rapesurvivor #survivor https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHM3J7HnGm/?igshid=exexq15im68z

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Just starting 🤩 . . . #chanelmiller #knowmyname #chanelmillerknowmyname #believewomen https://www.instagram.com/p/CIqlDtAjwuo/?igshid=5t97gmuktkmg

[maeves-books]

#tb to one of my favorite books I read this year. "Know My Name" by @chanel_miller is heartbreaking, inspiring, and incredibly moving. Chanel Miller tells her story, from being known as Emily Doe during the Brock Turner case, the trauma she incurred and the healing work that continues. Words and stories are medicine- Chanel proves that with her gripping memoir. If you haven't read it yet, I can't recommend it enough! *** #bookgram #booklover #bookstagrammer #memoir #knowmyname #chanelmiller #myfavoritebooks #books https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjCPkkH_6D/?igshid=ysk77sb89q9l

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The beauty of bravery... Thank you! Tears, beautiful words. #chanelmiller #chanelmillerknowmyname #knowmyname #foreverasurvivor https://www.instagram.com/p/CFaECjKlsGd/?igshid=1ks0az7t1b8x1

[idrislibrary]

Enseña a los hombres a respetar a las mujeres, no a beber menos.

“Tengo un nombre” de Chanel Miller

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“A place of unquestioned peace ☮️.” #libraries #ilovelibraries #pequannocklibrary #ala #chanelmiller @pequannock_library @chanelmillerknowmyname @americanlibraryassociation (at Pequannock Township Public Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UOsZ9pSbc/?igshid=ksretnj73r83

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Know My Name

A gut-wrenching chronicle of Chanel Miller’s experience, thoughts and feelings about the night she was raped and the aftermath in the days, months and years that followed

SUMMARY

A memoir of the unconscious woman who was sexually assaulted behind a dumpster on Stanford campus on January 15, 2015. Her rapist was apprehended by two graduate students who were biking across campus and incriminating evidence was immediately secured. After a grueling trial, her rapist Brock Turner, was sentenced to just six months in county jail on three counts of sexual assault. The judge ironically stated he feared a more severe sentence would have a “severe impact” on Turner, a champion swimmer.

The woman’s victim impact statement was posted on the internet by Buzzfeed and went viral instantaneously. Within four days the statement had been viewed by eleven million people and gave a voice to millions of rape survivors. Her statement inspired changes in California law and resulted in the recall of the judge in the case.

She was known to the world as Emily Doe, but in this book she reclaims her true identity to tell her painful and traumatic story.

“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we are here today.”

REVIEW

KNOW MY NAME is the powerful and emotional story of CHANEL MILLER. Miller is shockingly honest about her experience, thoughts, and feelings surrounding the night of the rape as well as the aftermath in the days, months and years that followed.

I found the book very difficult read not only because of the rape but also because of Miller’s emotional pain and the immense sadness that enveloped her following the tragic event, all of which is very clearly delineated in her writing. It’s a horrendous story that is hard to forget, and I am so please that she has stepped out of the shadow of that dumpster and reclaimed her identity. I am please that she has spoken up and spoken out not only about that event, and her attacker, but also about how the justice system required her to be victimized again and again.

While somewhat repetitive in places, I really appreciated her honesty about the anger, pain and embarrassment she felt during the most difficult experience of her life. I am very glad Miller found the strength and fortitude to write this book. I hope it been a healing experience for her. I am thankful I had the opportunity to read her story.

CHANEL MILLER is a writer and artist who received her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lives in San Francisco, California.

[litsavantbookclub]

Know My Name Book Review

Hello fellow readers!

Just this past weekend I finished Chanel Miller’s Know my Name, a memoir from the perspective of Emily Doe and her experience of the highly publicized 2015 assault that occurred to her on California’s Stanford University Campus. 

I personally remember reading about the case when at work at a CUNY campus and feeling horrified by the details and lack thereof. I remember…

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Bought it #chanelmiller #bookstagram #knowmyname https://www.instagram.com/p/B3xggudnzTQ/?igshid=6rec3wfzpqpo