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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
Emma Sulkowicz

Emma Sulkowicz is an American performance artist and anti-rape activist who first received media attention for the performance artwork Mattress Performance (2014–2015). The artwork consisted of Sulkowicz carrying a mattress wherever they went on campus during their final year at Columbia University. Sulkowicz said the piece would end when the student who they alleged had raped them in their dorm room in 2012 was expelled or otherwise left the university. The work was a protest against campus sexual assault and the university's handling of the sexual assault case, in which it had cleared the accused of responsibility.

Born: 1992
Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were. — © Emma Sulkowicz
Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.
For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.
There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.
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