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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1493450854828","data":"It was not long ago that a student from Columbia University embarked on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2014\/09\/03\/columbia-student-to-carry-around-mattress-as-performance-art-until-her-alleged-rapist-is-removed-from-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">individual crusade<\/a> against her rape by a male member of the same institute. She carried a mattress on her shoulder, as a protest against the institution that deliberately remained mum on the issue of complaints. This was neither the first case and would not be the last case of harassment to happen in the context of college campuses, in supposed \u201csafe spaces\u201d for learning. I guess, the awakening call would come by the context of the #HokKolorob movement by the pupils in Jadavpur University, pupils who couldn't bear to see the molestation of a female student go unanswered. <\/p>However, the ball has kept rolling since, then. And as Jadavpur University has again and again graced the headlines with the numerous tone deaf actions by the authority despite, the change in charge. Apparently, the institutionalised violence against women was not to be stopped. Cue, to the beginning of 2016, where women from the university and from nearby cases would <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/54943\/sexual-harassment-by-a-student-jadavpur-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">file a case<\/a> against Ekalavya Choudhury, a person who has a deterministic space in the intelligentsia of the Kolkata community using an online movement that would turn several heads. <\/p>However, herein too, the matter has been treated with a distasteful complacency. The complaints have been treated with brazen <a href=\"http:\/\/washwomen.blogspot.in\/2017\/04\/jadavpur-university-case-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">non-chalance<\/a>, leading to committee reports being created, but, no survivor being informed of the words inside it, or the factors that are playing into the punishment. All while, Ekalavya, the alleged culprit, is suspended without any consequences to his academic qualification and enjoys a glorified \u201cpaid vacation\u201d. What has seemingly complicated matters is the placarded resistance against any hearing from the survivors, who have tried and tried again to find a voice and failed. This after all led to formation of WASH. The statuses began to circulate with increasing frequency about a month ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/kunjilacinema.blogspot.in\/2017\/04\/we-are-wash-women-against-sexual-harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\">The \u201cWomen against Sexual Harassment<\/a>\u201d, a group who stand up for sexual harassment survivors and help in taking steps towards the same. <\/p>In a recent development a few days ago, the members of WASH took over the campus to paint the signs over the roads, declaring the how unsafe those spaces were. \u201cTHIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE. MOLESTATION HAPPENS HERE.\u201d  one of the declarations read. This is a movement that I personally view as important, a part of voice against the administration that needs to be said. <\/p>It needs to be re-iterated that art projects like this are extremely important for raising awareness and driving movements. In a world where the \u201cBrave girl\u201d statue in wall street, seemingly facing off the capitalist regime driven by the \u201cRaging Bull\u201d remains a source of eternal debate, and where people like Brock Turner can escape with a pat in the back. Here, these art pieces a vocal protest against the institutionalised crime. \u201cInstitutionalised\u201d? You ask? After the vocal participation in the movement by the survivors, the university takes little steps, and even refuses to form a centralised committee for the same. <\/p>The rampant discrimination runs so deep that there are complaints coming in still. There is still violence being documented. We need to acknowledge this. That our universities which we prided on, for being pristine institutions without any problems, have a lot of problems in their own, problems that run all the way up the authority. And we need to take steps. <\/p>A reminder, you can also write into WASH, by following the direction given in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/WASHthesystem\/posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">facebook page<\/a>, come up with complaints of the violence you face. Make movements bigger, and succeed<\/p>"}]

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