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Emma Sulkowicz is an American woman who is currently a fourth-year student and visual arts major at Columbia University in New York City. She claims to have been anally raped in her own bed, and filed a complaint against the alleged rapist along with two other individuals. However, the school found the accused rapist "not responsible" in all cases. In response, Sulkowicz, along with 22 other students, filed a federal Title IX complaint against Columbia and Barnard College alleging that these universities had mishandled their cases. She declined to prosecute the student she accuses of raping her because she was "too distraught," according to the Washington Post.

In September 2014, she began protesting what she considers Columbia's mishandling of her case by carrying a mattress around campus, which has received nationwide attention, and has been described as "part protest, part performance art." Sulkowicz has called the project "Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight".

Biography

Sulkowicz is the daughter of psychiatrists from Manhattan, and attended Dalton School on the Upper East Side. She originally planned to major in mechanical physics in college, but found herself drawn to visual arts instead.

References

  1. ^ Valenti, Jessica (2 September 2014). "Beyond 'no means no': the future of campus rape prevention is 'yes means yes'". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  2. ^ McDonald, Soraya Nadia (29 October 2014). "It's hard to ignore a woman toting a mattress everywhere she goes, which is why Emma Sulkowicz is still doing it". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  3. Grigoriadis, Vanessa (21 September 2014). "Meet the College Women Who Are Starting a Revolution Against Campus Sexual Assault". New York Magazine. Retrieved 30 October 2014.

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