The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art
A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz began to carry a blue mattress weighing 23kg around her university campus.
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