Link?

Edit: found it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceci_N'est_Pas_Un_Viol

And here's the original work from way back machine https://web.archive.org/web/20150611064710/http://www.cecinestpasunviol.com/

Update: the text has ample trigger warnings, but I'll add that (while I think it's bold and well done), it's very hard to watch and may give you nightmares

It wasn't the mattress that she was raped on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattress_Performance_(Carry_That_Weight)

It was the same model, though.

Purchased online from Tall Paul's Tall Mall, the 50-lb (23-kg), dark-blue, extra-long twin mattress is of the kind Columbia places in its dorms, similar to the one on which Sulkowicz said that Nungesser had raped her

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Artnet cited it as "almost certainly ... one of the most important artworks of the year", comparing it to Ana Mendieta's Untitled (Rape Scene) (1973) and Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus's Three Weeks in May (1977).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattress_Performance_(Carry_That_Weight)

In January 2015, New York's U.S. senator Kirsten Gillibrand invited Sulkowicz to attend the 2015 State of the Union Address.[5] Families Advocating for Campus Equality said the invitation was "undeserved and violates the principles of confidentiality and gender equality of Title IX",

Wow, TIL about this asshole NGO that defends rapists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Families_Advocating_for_Campus_Equality

I think a lot of people just don’t have any experience with the criminal justice system and assume that if there was no conviction he must be innocent.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

he was clearly picked due to the idea of the philosopher king (in Plato's famously undemocratic Kaliopolis, which is a lot like the caste system)

one can have two hands at once

she would have grounds to sue the school?

Well after reading the wiki, I wouldn’t call it that:

Specifically, FACE objects to many schools' Title IX proceedings that deny students basic procedures traditionally provided to those defending themselves against allegations of wrongdoing, such as: not being informed of the specific accusations, denied access to the complaint, witness statements, and evidence, and not being permitted to contact and present witnesses.

I think due process is one of the fundamental principles of our society, be for it murder, rape or petty theft.

younger generations are demonstrably more misogynistic.

I just really have to disagree here. Growing up in the 90s, blatant misogyny was utterly pervasive throughout our culture. Now raising a son, sometimes 90s (or earlier) media comes on and the sexist tropes make me cringe.

While the internet has enabled a loud subgroup of misogynists to organize, the culture among young people in the real world that I observe daily is waaay more accepting and progressive than the predominant culture 30 years ago.

They are given due process, including access to lawyers, evidence, and witnesses. They're even allowed to take the case to court. All public universities are required to offer full due process when expelling students.

Private universities are not required to do so because they're not run by the government.

Homie's off his meds again lmao.

They are given due process

That’s in contradiction to what the Wikipedia page shows.

Private universities are not required to do so

So many of them do not. Why does not being run by the government exempt schools from applying basic human rights?

I’ll pull some studies in a minute here, but when I say demonstrably, I mean it. There’s a reason that Gen Z helped elect Trump.

Women’s rights are regressing worldwide, warns UN gender equality chief

The report titled Ensuring and Strengthening Access to Justice for All Women and Girls, shows how laws are being reshaped to restrict women’s freedoms, silence their voices, and allow abuse without consequence.

Together, these barriers mean that women worldwide have 64 per cent of the legal rights of men whilst 54 per cent of countries lack consent based legal definitions of rape.

“Nearly 90 per cent of organizations working to end violence against women and girls are reporting reduction in essential services, only 5 per cent believe they can sustain the current situation they are in and sustain for over two years.”

Source

That’s right. According to a report published by UN Women in September 2022, it could take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality at the current rate of progress (read: too slow).

The global pandemic, conflict, the climate crisis, and a harsh backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality. Violence against women remains high; global health, climate, and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence, especially for the most vulnerable women and girls; and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic.

In countries as diverse as Afghanistan and the US, women and girls now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers did.

Source

Though vastly different, extremist movements, such as far-right ethno-nationalists, religious fundamentalists and online “incel” communities, have something in common. The ideological language may differ, but the underlying insistence on women’s “rightful place” in society binds these movements together.

Around the world, there is a growing sentiment that “feminism has gone too far” or that men are now discriminated against. In Australia and other Western countries, this sentiment has risen steadily since 2021.

Support for violence to resist feminism was highest among adolescent boys (28%), followed closely by adolescent girls (21%).

Perhaps most alarming: roughly 40% of boys aged 13 to 17 agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.

Source

Even in 2020, a large percentage of Americans continue to agree with statements designed to capture both hostile and benevolent sexism. Exposure to higher education appears to tamper, to some degree, hostile sexist viewpoints, but plays only a modest role in reducing benevolent sexism. Given the significance of hostile sexism in predicting support for Donald Trump and Republican candidates in recent elections, it is instructive to consider how American adults are divided largely along the lines of sex and education when it comes to their adherence to hostile sexism. This suggests that if sexism continues to play a major role in future elections, the gender and education gap between Republicans and Democrats will continue to grow even larger.

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No, they were right and I was wrong. Socrates and Plato had ideas different that typical Greek life, but they were still far from ideal by today's standards. It is something that I had to do more research on and I'm grateful for that.

That guy is a real fuck though, and can eat a whole cactus.

"Families Advocating" oh yeah, definitely a racist/sexist/bigoted organization. They're not all named like this, but those that are, are very likely very shitty.

Someone that cared about the issue would have made an effort to figure something out. Then again someone who cared about the issue would do more to remove rapists from the campus they are in charge of.

Due process protects you from the government. You don't get due process when you get kicked out of a private business or university for misbehaving. They can kick you out for no reason at all.

Art is so much more than purely entertainment and it's insulting that you even typed these words out to question a rape victim.

becoming one of the faces of the movement against rape culture on college campuses.

Yeah, this is totally about being entertainment /s

So many of them do not. Why does not being run by the government exempt schools from applying basic human rights?

Your question is a little hyperbolic since what your talking about is title IX specifically, not “human rights” in general.

You can read about title IX exemptions here.

You can read the DA statement and her testimony here. It has a full story of what happened from her pov, including the guys who showed up after the group text went out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260929085033/https://www.tompkinscountyny.gov/News-articles/District-Attorney-statement-regarding-Jane-Doe-v.-Cornell-University-et-al

Update: apparently the DA is a lying POS:
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/cornell-university-rape-case-district-attorney-campus-police-interview/

If you misbehave, sure, but this is not misbehaving. This is a crime. One that hasn’t been proven to have happened at all.

They can kick you out for no reason at all.

That is a major issue. Kicking someone out of university is a life-changing punishment, and should not be taken so lightly when someone may be innocent. There should be rules about that and I don’t think this should be normalized.

You are right about the part that you don't understand art... it's absolutely about more than just entertainment.

This is not her testimony, this is the DA recounting her testimony.

It is decidedly not the whole story as evidenced by the group chat that the DA never saw and that she’s suing Cornell accusing them of holding back evidence.

I’m not talking about human rights in general, I’m talking about those specific basic human rights.

Then maybe Cornell shouldn’t have impeded a real investigation here.

How are they being denied basic human rights?

Title IX is very specific and the organization you refer to, FACE, specifically states their goal in relation to title IX.

I can’t tell if your arguing in bad faith or you don’t understand title IX compared to other laws that would apply.

If she can prove the school violated the law or broke their own internal policy in handling this case, she may have grounds.

If they followed their own internal procedure properly and didn't violate the law, it would be harder to win a suit.

Oof yeah I always feel bad for the folks that see the crazy freestyle runway shows and think they're being clever by recognizing how impractical the costumes are.

Art is often about expression. Yes it can be about entertainment, but to describe something like Strange Fruit as entertainment feels wrong, it's beautiful and haunting, but it's a song that cries out for justice against the suffering that inspired its creation. This performance art piece is also a demand for justice.

What an absolute shit university Columbia has become.

Carrying it around everywhere doesn't mean she didn't regularly put it down to do other things.

Yepppp, cops don't investigate such things for shit and I just can't believe they care after being part of the victim end of such an investigation

I'm so sorry your wife had to experience not only the original crime, but then the added victim blaming from the very people that are supposed to help her. It's sadly way too common here.

The internet was not to blame, though, it's just a reflection of your society...

That's true. It's the DA paraphrase of her testimony. Her testimony will likely not become public prior to the trial. I never said it's the full picture either, it clearly doesn't include the group chats that happened on the other side of the door. It just shows what she says (or the DAs summary of it at least) happened on her side of the door.

I also don't agree with the DA. That story has enough evidence of people pressuring her into doing more drugs and drinking more to get her into a more compromised state. That alone should have been enough for charges. You can't just have someone say "stop" and respond with "do you want more drugs?".

DA in Cornell University case says he never saw transcript of campus police interview with alleged rape victim

Art is touted as one of the only things capable of making a bullheaded society see reality differently. You think such a key piece of experience would be confined to entertainment?

It is also impossible to prove rape didn't happen. There's no way you could conclusively prove right now that you haven't raped me.

Which is why we have this whole innocent until proven guilty thing, which absolutely sucks if you're a victim, but guilty until proven innocent is an even worse system.

Until either conclusive proof about the rape is presented or she admits to lying, as far as I'm concerned, he didn't rape her and she isn't lying about it.

I'm also not entirely sure it should be up to a university to investigate these things. That's something the police should be doing and you Americans need to start lighting fires under their asses until they finally start taking rape cases seriously.

It does reflect the US though

Getting fired is life changing yet we accept that we could be fired at any time for no reason here in the US. Protections against getting arbitrarily kicked out of a private university would require legislation. Right now that's a risk you assume when you go to a private institution versus a public one.

Your gonna be real upset when you hear about Guernica (Picasso)

Art can be used for education, too, though, in my experience as an educator, entertainment and education are naturally synergistic with each other. You cannot educate without a degree of enfurthurance to the lesson, the force behind scaffolding information as that is a combined process of teacher and student enthusiasm, yet raw entertainment is rather mindless and starts to lose interest in infancy, where noise-intensity signal processing begins to lose weight in attentional algorithms once a mind begins producing ongoing an syntatical placement of a self in relation to its environment, obviously. Ie, the human attentional coordination algorithms are tuned neither to raw information download nor highest immediate priority for situational attunement.

IMO, as a poet, I feel there is a "puzzle solving" aspect to my craft. I set limitations, mine mostly working on simple rhyme schemes in near pixel-perfect line length for a visual effect, and I produce a message to fit those parameters. Here is a lipogram I did, titled Nervana:

Art facilitates an aspect of intrigue to the human psyche, and it is intrigue that drives a factor within intention-setting. The awareness of this, combined with the will to defeat the banal "self" results in a divergent narrative from which one derives identity from. In my personal anecdotal experience of this, my unconscious and thus intuition became informed of general archetypal concepts to reality over the course of my adolescence, with a currently noteworthy example being how I conceptualized a part of my reality around the movie Dreamcatcher, based on a Stephen King novel.

There was my memory warehouse, but there was "other" living within it, meaning I wasn't fully in control. I would once visit "other" in my astral projection/lucid dreaming experiments in my early twenties on an island constructed by "other" that had symbolic qualities, most importantly one visitation where the rendering of reality tore itself asunder so the entire graphonceptation of what can be considered physical reality asymptoted forwards, inwards you can say, towards the central mind of consciousness.

I saw God. God opened Hid third eye. He saw into me to then see all of me and I caught glimpse, but shit quickly catalyzed to null in which I was blinded by the emptiness. And all was quiet. Then I was itchy, to then realize and wake up to the trepid quasitruth that I was being eaten by vampires. But there was only me. I was destroying myself. And I woke in the dampest, coldest sweat I can recall myself experiencing from a nightmare or other nightly verzore intrusion.

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@6_Electrons@lemmy.world got so upset about their comment being rightfully called out that they sent me this lovely little note:

where the fuck did I question a “vicitim”… what I did do was question why someone would use the word “artist” to describer herself when she is in fact a vicitm… survivor… activist… she could have choose so many other words besides artist that wouldn’t have discounted her experience. Your low IQ brain can’t read past the words you want to hear you dumb fuck… get lost

Thought it would be best to make your message to me public knowledge. Say it with your chest.

If you have no problem putting your name to such messages, why the DM?

I'm the scourge when you're calling people dumb fucks? Right-o.

I was talking about the organisation in the first comment, but then the discussion went to public and private universities in general, which I then replied to.

And the basic human right is the due process I mentioned before.

You don’t have to jump to accusations “bad faith” because you and I are misunderstanding one another. Let’s try to keep Lemmy normal and not spiral into a Reddit argument.

The story's lead image, of the person that famously always carried the mattress... is of her not holding a mattress?

Did we do a journalism, Dad?