Maguire, Emma (2025) Carrying the Weight of Public Survivorship in the Pre-#MeToo Era: The “Willful” Victim/Survivor and the Performance Art of Emma Sulkowicz. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 40 (3). pp. 549-572.

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Abstract

This article examines performance artist Emma Sulkowicz’s work as autobiographical practice and protest and reads it in conjunction with the media mobilization of her testimony to investigate the conditions of public survivorship, drawing on Sarah Ahmed to propose the willful victim/survivor.

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