College rape survivor will carry her mattress around campus until her rapist is expelled - Salon.com
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On the first day of her sophomore year of college, Emma Sulkowicz was raped in her dorm room bed. The Columbia University senior says the perpetrator was a fellow student. He still is (...)
After joining a federal complaint in April over Columbia’s mishandling of rape cases and speaking out about the school’s failure to address her assault, Sulkowicz is now embarking on yet another effort — an artistic one — to make change on campus. For her senior thesis project, the visual arts major will perform what she is calling “an endurance art piece,” in which she will carry around a standard twin-size dorm room mattress with her everywhere she goes, until her rapist is removed from school.
“A mattress is the perfect size for me to just be able to carry it — enough that I can continue with my day, but also heavy enough that I have to continually struggle with it,”
