Daily News | ‘Sluts Across America’ is back online, and its creator is no longer anonymous
, and she immediately thought of “Sluts Across America,” the project she had anonymously created in 2012. The
“Sluts Across America” was a platform where people wrote and read anonymous responses to the prompt, “I’m a slut because….” The entries were marked by location and placed on a map of the world. She created the webpage because she wanted to know “whether people were willing to self-identify as a slut, whether people were willing to kind of exist in solidarity with one another. It started as an experiment in collective storytelling [to illustrate] the diversity of reasons that people were asking for access to birth control,” she says.“I’m in charge of my future, not old straight Christian white men.
Then a master’s student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Vasudevan remained anonymous. “I was worried about right-wing blowback [and] people tracking me down or leveling threats,” she says. She’s still concerned about trolls but says, “this has garnered so many contributions, it’s been written about in books … I now feel more comfortable attaching myself to it as the artist … to give myself credit for all of that work that I did 10 years ago.
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