"In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz began to carry a blue mattress weighing 23kg around her university campus. The mattress was similar to the ones New York’s Columbia University used in its dorm rooms, where Sulkowicz said she had been raped by a fellow student two years earlier. Her performance/endurance artwork constituted her visual art senior thesis..." https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/08/anti-rape-art-history-cornell-mattress-performance #WomensHealth #colleges #universities #TitleIX #SexualAssault #PerformanceArt #art