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“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.”

Quote by Emma Sulkowicz

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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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