Groping others was not a natural reflex, biologically built in. And boys are people, they have minds, live in a society with laws. I understand you are not supposed to walk into a lion's den because you could be mauled. And the way she was told that she shouldn't have expected anything better: "You went to a frat and got assaulted? What did you expect?. Miller also covers some of the same ground she went over in her statement: the media's grotesque focus on Turner's swimming career (they "counted my drinks and counted the seconds Brock could swim two hundred yards").
What if he's poisoned the seeds? What if he's a pervert and rubbed his penis on the bell pepper and wants to watch me eat it? What if he slits me with his pocketknife?" She accepts the piece of bell pepper anyway.
She falls into a familiar spiral of fear: "I stared at the slice. At one of her low points, an old man on a bench offers her a slice of bell pepper. She wants to be able to walk down the street, sit on a bench or talk to a stranger: all things that are so often considered invitations to harassment. Miller also documents the smaller - sadly and frustratingly expected, and not unimportant - humiliations of walking the earth while female: the catcalls, harassment and the resulting paranoia. At points, particularly during the account of her testimony, it is hard to read it and breathe at the same time.
We live with Miller minute by minute, thinking and feeling with her. Know My Name is a devastating, immersive memoir of her sexual assault and its aftermath. The case became notorious for its illustration of the race and wealth gap in sentencing, and for the stinging eloquence of Miller's victim statement, which went instantly viral when it was published by BuzzFeed. Turner was convicted of three felonies but served only three months of a six-month sentence in county jail. Two Swedish graduate students were passing by on bikes and chased Turner off an unconscious Miller. In 2015, Miller was sexually assaulted by Turner on Stanford University's campus. "However, I am not Brock Turner's victim. How?Įditor's note: This review includes graphic descriptions.įor four years, she has been known publicly as Emily Doe, "an unconscious woman" or simply "Brock Turner's victim." In her memoir Know My Name, she wants to set the record straight: "I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am," she writes. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Know My Name Subtitle A Memoir Author Chanel Miller
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