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Over the last few years, Taylor Swift has become one of the two or three biggest pop stars in the world. She has accumulated no fewer than four homes (including a $3.5 million place in Beverly Hills and a $20 million Tribeca penthouse) and drawn enormous press and media attention. She’s still on the cover…
“On a plate.” A short animated story. Hitting a little too close to home – Album on Imgur.
At this point, I should be used to seeing backlash against Emma Sulkowicz, but I still wasn’t fully prepared for what came this week: endless tittering of people around me in real life and in my social feeds saying they “weren’t sure” about Emma’s choice to carry her mattress to Columbia’s graduation; the insistence that…
When she crossed the stage, Lee Bollinger turned away. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images Since coming forward with her story last year, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz has become an outspoken figure in the fight against campus sexual assault. Her Carry That Weight mattress project has served as the centerpiece of countless news stories about universities’…
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…
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…