SAAM Book Club: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Fri, Apr 26
|Women's Resources Center @ UIUC
hosted at the Women's Resources Center at UIUC
Time & Location
Apr 26, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Women's Resources Center @ UIUC, 616 E Green St, Suite 202 Champaign, IL 61820, USA
About the Event
Join the WRC as we discuss "Know My Name" by writer and artist Chanel Miller at the WRC. Limited copies of the book are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Register for the book club and to request your copy of the book here: go.illinois.edu/knowmyname.
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral—viewed by eleven million people within four days. Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways--there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the…