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Some uptown New Yorkers woke up on Tuesday to find poster-sized flyers attacking recent Columbia grad Emma Sulkowicz, who spent the majority of her senior year lugging a blue mattress everywhere she went to protest what she alleges to be the school’s protection of her rapist. Sulkowicz’s protest brought visibility to the long-neglected epidemic of…
Fast-growing millennial publisher Mic has the luxury of starting from scratch with its six-month-old video strategy. That means betting heavily on Facebook. On Tuesday, Mic released the eighth episode of its debut video series, “Flip the Script.” Hosted by Mic senior editor Elizabeth Plank, the show tackles problematic cultural trends and stereotypes in snappy, three-to-seven-minute episodes….
Police warn Australians about the dangers of Nickelback By Jenni RyallAustralia2015-05-20 09:52:06 UTC It is times like this we need the police. The Australian authorities have stepped in to protect us all from possibly the most hated band on the planet and their goatee-chinned lead singer, Chad Kroeger. If his marriage to Avril Lavigne gave…
The Agents of SHIELD can stand down. Constantine can go to hell. Daredevil got the crap kicked out of it. And Arrow? You just got outshot by your little brother. The Flash finale wasn’t quite perfect, but it showed exactly why it’s the best comic book show currently on TV. I know I’m frequently guilty…
There is no doubt about it, new communications technologies are forcing us to reassess whether privacy and free speech laws and conventions, invented way before such technologies could ever have been imagined, can be updated usefully, or whether we need to rethink some fairly fundamental notions we have about privacy and freedom. Social media cases,…
The writer and activist dream hampton — in a series of quickly deleted tweets — that Jay-Z and Beyonce have quietly put up the money to bail protesters out of jail in Ferguson and in Baltimore, and that they have been essential backers of the #blacklivesmatter movement. Complex magazine grabbed screen shots of the tweets…
YouTube screen captureThis week’s graduation at Columbia University caps the bizarre, often sordid saga involving the two most famous members of the Class of 2015: Emma Sulkowicz, the activist who protested the school’s alleged mishandling of her alleged rape by carrying a mattress around campus, and Jean-Paul Nungesser, the German scholarship student she accuses of…
As Columbia University prepares to hold its commencement Wednesday, one student is ending her protest of the university’s handling of her sexual assault complaint. Emma Sulkowicz has carried a mattress around campus all year, emerging as a key figure in the national debate over how schools address sexual assault. At a ceremony for seniors Tuesday, Sulkowicz…
Early this morning, an anonymous person or persons put up posters around Columbia University—in the 116th Street subway station, outside of Tom’s Restaurant, on stoplights and construction walls—emblazoned with the image of student Emma Sulkowicz and her now-iconic mattress. Since September 2014, Sulkowicz has been dragging the mattress around campus as a protest against the…
During their first year on campus, an estimated 18.6 percent of freshman women were the victims of rape or attempted rape, according to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. “Sexual violence on campus has reached epidemic levels,” the authors write. “Interventions to reduce sexual violence on campus are urgently needed.” Prior studies have…