Emma Sulkowicz Quotes

• 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.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Eye, Class, Justice

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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.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Bed, Weight, Dorms

  "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.

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

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Light, Matter, Fluffy

  "Students Bring Out Mattresses In Huge ‘Carry That Weight’ Protest Against Sexual Assault" by Alexandra Svokos, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2014.

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