Specifically about Chanel Miller previously known as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner, who has a book coming out today. Maybe a thread for other cases as well.
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She is a literature graduate, who has now written a book, Know My Name.
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Chanel's memoir brims with the rage of her ordeal. But why write it, when it meant reliving her pain, reading the court documents and witness statements that had been - until then - kept from her?
She says she felt a duty to shine a light on the darkness so many young women have to go through.
"I've had days where it's extremely difficult to get up in the morning," says Chanel, 27, speaking in her home city of San Francisco. "I've had days where I really could not imagine a single pathway forward. And those were such weighing times.
"And it was terrible. I wouldn't draw anything, I wouldn't write anything. All I wanted to do is sleep so that I wouldn't have to be conscious. That's no way to live.
"I think of other young women who have to go through this and you see them withdraw and crumble and fall away from the things that they love. And I just think - how, how do we let that happen?"
Extract from along article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49755850
