“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.”
Quote by Emma Sulkowicz
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Emma Sulkowicz
Emma Sulkowicz, born in 1992 in the United States, is a social activist and artist, renowned for her work 'Carry That Weight'. This piece of art is an expression of her personal experience of sexual assault during her college years, where she carried a mattress as a form of artistic protest, transforming her personal pain into public discourse. more
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