Emma Sulkowicz

Professions :

Carry That Weight

Born :

1992

There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

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For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

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Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

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