Tag: Emma Sulkowicz
Emma Sulkowicz is an artist and activist who carried her mattress everywhere she went to protest her alleged rapist’s continued presence on the Columbia campus until her graduation last month. Rape has now become a recurring theme in her work, as her newest project is a disturbing video featuring herself in a sexual encounter gone […]
After three Columbia University women filed complaints of sexual assault and rape against him, and one sparked a national movement after she began to to carry a 50-pound mattress to symbolize the burden she carries as a rape victim, the accused has spoken out publicly. The New York Times reports that Columbia senior Paul Nungesser, […]
Columbia senior Emma Sulkowicz, the young woman who’s been carrying around a mattress to represent the burden of knowing her alleged rapist is still at school, has started an international movement. On Wednesday, thousands of students reaching Stanford and even the Central European University in Budapest attended rallies for an (inter)national day of action spurred […]