The next morning, she woke on a cold hospital gurney to be photographed naked, her anus swabbed and metal instruments prodded into her vagina.Ī year later, Chanel – known by the pseudonym 'Emily Doe' during the trial – found herself in the same courtroom as Turner, who was sentenced to a pitiful six months in prison for his assault. That night, she made a last-minute decision to join her sister at a fraternity party located just 10 minutes from her home. The aftermath of which involved, first an anonymous testimony, then excruciating double-standards in the way the press reported it, followed by a powerful victim impact statement and eventually the revelation of her real identity.įor those that don't know it already: at around midnight of 17 January 2015, Chanel was discovered by two students at Stanford University, being sexually assaulted by 19-year-old Brock Turner as she lay unconscious on the pine-needle-strewn ground behind some bins.Īt the time, Miller was a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and living in Palo Alto with her parents. But for 27-year-old Miller, the time is ripe for bundling herself in words of affection.įor four years, she's lived in the wake of a heavily-publicised sexual assault. It’s a rare thing to hear someone - more specifically, a woman - eulogise their own body. ‘I love the shape of my belly button,’ declares Chanel Miller.
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