Know My Name
For years the world knew her only as a victim and a case number. She wrote this book to be a person again. It is one of the bravest memoirs ever written.
Emily Doe Speaks
Chanel Miller's 2019 memoir tells the story she was not permitted to tell during the trial that made her globally famous as Emily Doe, the anonymous assault victim in the 2016 case against Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. While her victim impact statement read in court went viral and was reprinted worldwide, she had to remain unnamed and reduced to a role in someone else's legal story. This memoir gives her back her name, her childhood, her creative life, her relationships, and the full account of what the trial and its aftermath did to her. The memoir won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Reading Know My Name
Reclamation
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"I am not Brock Turner's victim. I am not defined by one night, one sentence, one headline.
"Chanel Miller · Know My Name
Miller was an artist and writer before the assault and after it. She creates visual art and comics under the name Emily Doe and has said that making art was one of the ways she held onto herself during the years of the legal process.
Her victim impact statement, read in full at sentencing, was reprinted by BuzzFeed and went viral in 2016. It was read into the Congressional Record by Representative Jackie Speier and has been included in writing textbooks.