Chanel Miller

If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s how much you can get away with by saying work.

If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s how much you can get away with by saying work.

They walked away thinking we had caught up, while I held the quiet knowledge they knew nothing.

In January 2015, I was twenty-two, living and working in my hometown of Palo Alto, California.

I was given a new name to protect my identity: I became Emily Doe.

if your life has been touched by sexual violence,

to the best of my ability

I want to leave them behind so I can move forward.

lifted me, day by day, out of darkness

hand out on the street