Chanel Miller has spent the last five years coming to terms with her alter ego. For most of that time, she’s been known to the world only as Emily Doe.Woman of the Year under the pseudonym, an identity the literature major and California native started to use after being sexually assaulted on Stanford University campus, outside San Francisco.
The perpetrator was 19-year-old student named Brock Turner, a member of the swimming team who wanted to become a surgeon.When he was found guilty by a Californian court, the public response was supportive: there were calls to show leniency for his “youthful” mistake.“I received so much online abuse,” she says. “Horrible comments that I ingested for a long time.It set her thinking about what it meant to be a survivor, and what she’d experienced.
“After the statement came out, I received so many letters telling me I was courageous and eloquent and a good sister and daughter.”and read over 11 million times. There was widespread outrage when Turner was sentenced to only three months' jail. “It was very freeing to be able to find words for these murky feelings that kind of simmer around in your gut.”
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