Chanel Miller

Know My Name

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  • b1347182111has quoted4 years ago
    I learned it was expensive to be assaulted.
  • Rantxxzhas quoted2 years ago
    if your life has been touched by sexual violence,
  • Rantxxzhas quoted2 years ago
    I was given a new name to protect my identity: I became Emily Doe.
  • Rantxxzhas quoted2 years ago
    In January 2015, I was twenty-two, living and working in my hometown of Palo Alto, California.
  • Natania Yaparihas quoted2 years ago
    They walked away thinking we had caught up, while I held the quiet knowledge they knew nothing.
  • Natania Yaparihas quoted2 years ago
    If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s how much you can get away with by saying work.
  • Natania Yaparihas quoted2 years ago
    If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s how much you can get away with by saying work.
  • Kannhas quoted3 years ago
    And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” Although I can’t save every boat, I hope that by speaking
  • Kannhas quoted3 years ago
    I told the probation officer I do not want Brock to rot away in prison. I did not say he does not deserve to be behind bars. The probation officer’s recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft timeout, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women. It gives the message that a stranger can be inside you without proper consent and he will receive less than what has been defined as the minimum sentence. Probation should be denied. I also told the probation officer that what I truly wanted was for Brock to get it, to understand and admit to his wrongdoing.
  • Kannhas quoted3 years ago
    As this is a first offence I can see where leniency would beckon. On the other hand, as a society, we cannot forgive everyone’s first sexual assault or digital rape. It doesn’t make sense. The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly, we should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error. The consequences of sexual assault needs to be severe enough that people feel enough fear to exercise good judgment even if they are drunk, severe enough to be preventative.
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