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But here’s to you my loves, even if you’re not, or you weren’t an Olympic champion like Caitlyn, or you lack her access to a world famous photographer like Annie Leibovitz, to expensive fashion, makeup artists, doctors, or if you don’t want or can’t have surgery.

Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress across the stage at her graduation ceremony this morning. Sulkowicz and her friends have been carrying the mattress around for the whole academic year in protest of the way the school handles sexual assault issues.  As New York Magazine explains, for her senior thesis in visual art, Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), Sulkowicz vowed that she would carry her dorm-room mattress whenever she was on campus as long as her alleged rapist remained on campus. “The piece could potentially take a day, or it could go on until I graduate,” she said. 

For more on the project, check out our podcast “Feminism on Campus.”