Student Creates Powerful Photo Series to Protest Brock Turner

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Brock Turner — the convicted rapist who only served three months in jail — has inspired a series of devastating photos about sexual assault.

Ithaca College student Yana Mazurkevich just rolled out her second Brock Turner-inspired photo series, in conjunction with sexual assault advocacy group Current Solutions. The series, which Mazurkevich has dubbed “It Happens,” shows young women in their underwear, posing next to messages with quotes others have said about sexual assault.

Mazurkevich’s first photo series, titled “Dear Brock Turner,” was covered by the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and went viral on social media. However, Mazurkevich told The Ithacan that she was particularly bothered by her first photo series as it lacked diverse perspectives and failed to properly acknowledge gender equality.

“I was reading the comments on what everyone has been saying, and a lot of the comments were, ‘Men get raped too,’ and, ‘Women get raped by women,’ and, like, ‘Why are all these women white?’ I completely understand where people were coming from,” Mazurkevich told The Ithacan’s Kiara Bush. “So especially in this day and age and with everything that’s happening — with equal rights and race — I just wanted to expand and make everything inclusive.”

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