‘The piece could potentially take a day or go on till I graduate’
A Columbia University student is turning her senior thesis into a protest against the school’s sexual assault policies and her alleged rapist.
Emma Sulkowicz, a visual art major, says she is carrying a twin-size dorm-room mattress until her alleged attacker, a fellow Columbia student, is expelled. Sulkowicz is calling the endeavor, which she says is a sort of performance art piece, “Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight.”
“The piece could potentially take a day or go on till I graduate,” Sulkowicz, a senior, told the Columbia Spectator.
The 21-year-old says she was raped in her dorm room on the first day of her sophomore year but did not report the alleged attack until she met two other women who said they were also assaulted by the same man. All three reported their cases to the university, and all three say their allegations were dismissed.
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