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A senior studying visual arts at Columbia University has pledged to carry around her dorm mattress everywhere she goes as long as her rapist is enrolled at the same school — a visual performance that both highlights the weight Emma Sulkowicz carries as a rape victim, and the university’s failure to tackle sexual assaults in a way that punishes the alleged rapists while eliminating victim shame.
Sulkowicz was raped by a classmate on the first day of her sophomore year of college. The student who assaulted Sulkowicz is still a student on campus, despite having two separate sexual assault complaints filed against him by women at the university.
