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Chanel Miller has come forth and identified herself as the woman sexually assaulted by Standford University Swimmer, Brock Turner, in 2015.
Although known as “Emily Doe” during the trial, Miller went viral when she shared an anonymous statement during his sentencing. In that initial statement she wrote:
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me. In newspapers, my name was ‘unconscious, intoxicated woman.’ Ten syllables, and nothing more than that. I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity. To relearn that this is not all that I am. That I am not just a drunk victim at a frat party found behind a dumpster, while you are the All-American swimmer at a top university, innocent until proven guilty with so much at stake.”
On Wednesday, she revealed her name in a memoir titled “Know My Name,” which also details her life since the event.
According to the New York Times, Miller started working on the book in early 2017, and since then it has shifted and expanded as conversations about sexual violence become more prominent. The process of writing “Know My Name” was also, in part, a way for her to truly understand what happened the night she was assaulted. During the time, she read pages of court documents and transcripts of witness testimonies she had not been allowed to hear during the trial. She and Andrea Schulz, editor in chief of Viking, the company publishing Miller’s memoir would have weekly calls to discuss what had been discovered and how it would shape the book.
Schulz, who read Miller’s statement, immediately connected with her story and wanted to offer her voice a platform.
“I jumped out of my chair to acquire it,” Schulz told the publication, “because it was just obvious to me from the beginning what she had to say and how different it was and how extraordinarily well she was going to say it. She had the brain and the voice of a writer from the very beginning, even in that situation.”
“It is one of the most important books that I’ve ever published,” she added, stating it has potential to “change the culture that we live in and the assumptions we make about what survivors should be expected to go through to get justice.”
“Know My Name” will be available on September 24, 2019.
