In January 2018, Tulane released the results of the campus climate survey on sexual assault and violence, reporting that 41 percent of undergraduate women had experienced sexual assault during their time at Tulane. The issue of sexual violence is pervasive within the undergraduate population. I feel like it’s more appeasatory if anything,” “But there are still people streaming the music that feel like the artist are good people. This could be a good option to reduce that,” sophomore Jewell Prim said. “Artists make most of their money off of streams in the current industry. Student reception of the Spotify blocking feature is varied, ranging from exuberance at the ability to literally mute an artist to skepticism at the true impact the “cancel feature” will have. Though many students share in Alder’s enthusiasm, it is not universal. It leaves the decision to engage with an artist entirely up to the individual, and people who have suffered from trauma don’t have to worry about stumbling upon music from artists who can bring up difficult emotions,” Alder said. This tool is the latest manifestation of a movement to cancel, or punish via social exclusion and economic boycott, artists accused of sexual assault and misconduct charges. Kelly,” Spotify has rolled out a blocking feature that allows users to mute artists. In the era of the #MeToo movement and in the wake of the docuseries “Surviving R. In the absence of an effective legal framework for accountability, how do we contend with artists who have allegedly committed acts of violence? What does it mean to “cancel” someone? According to senior CeCe Alder, “It’s just an act of resistance that happens on the individual level in hopes of creating positive change on a larger scale.”
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