Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.

I am Amina Tussaud, and I am Anne Friedman.

On this week's agenda, Survivors Speak Out and We Are Listening.

We hear from Chanel Miller, who first anonymously and now in her new book,

know my name, is sharing her side of the story, from campus sexual assault,

to going through a trial to hold the perpetrator to account to her life now

as she has become a public advocate for these issues.

Honestly, she's a shiro and we are honored to have her on CYG.

Many of us became aware of Chanel Miller's gifts as a writer before we learned her name.

After she was assaulted at Stanford, the perpetrator Brock Turner stood trial

and at its conclusion, Chanel, who had remained anonymous throughout,

read a victim impact statement to the court that echoed around the Internet.

Now that she has shared her identity publicly and written a book under her own name,

she has also recorded herself reading that statement, and here's an excerpt.

Instead of taking time to heal, I was taking time to recall the night in excruciating detail

in order to prepare for the attorney's questions that would be invasive, aggressive,

and designed to steer me off course, to contradict myself, my sister,

phrased and ways to manipulate my answers.

Instead of his attorney saying, did you notice any abrasions?

He said, you didn't notice any abrasions, right?

This was a game of strategy as if I could be tricked out of my own worth.

The sexual assault had been so clear, but instead, here I was at the trial,

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