Emma Sulkowicz, better known as "Mattress Girl" for carrying around a bed cushion for months while claiming she had been raped, is going to give a TEDx talk in New York on Friday.

TEDx talks are a little different from traditional TED Talks, and are "designed to help communities, organizations and individuals to spark conversation and connection through local TED-like experiences," according to its website. Sulkowicz will be speaking with several others on the topic of "borders and belonging."

A program for the event says the speakers "will explore the physical and socially-constructed borders between peoples, places and communities, as well as challenge how borders divide and unite us." How that relates to a questionable rape accusation is unclear. A press contact for the event did not return a Washington Examiner request for comment.

The program for the event, which will be hosted at the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center and presented by the City University of New York, states that members of the CUNY community advocate "against the prison-industrial complex, homelessness and domestic violence," which could explain why Sulkowicz was invited, though she did not attend CUNY.

Sulkowicz made national news when she began carrying her mattress around campus to protest the fact that the man she accused of brutally raping her was found "not responsible" by Columbia University. After becoming a media darling, Sulkowicz's story was seriously called into question when Facebook messages sent after the allegedly brutal rape (in which she claims she was punched and choked) showed her acting lovingly toward the accused student. Facebook messages sent before the alleged rape showed numerous loving messages sent from Sulkowicz to the accused.

Police also questioned the accused student, but no charges were filed.

He is now suing Columbia for allowing her to defame him through her alleged art project and in the media, when he was in the eyes of the university and police an innocent person.

It was also discovered that Sulkowicz exaggerated her fears of the accused student, saying she was afraid to leave her dorm or be on campus for fear she would see him — even though she knew he was out of the country at the time.

Sulkowicz's biography for the TEDx event says she was born in New York, "where she continues to live and make art." It lists her mattress project as her best-known work as well as "her more recent work titled 'Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol.'"

That more recent work refers to a pornographic film (translation: This is not a rape) that bares a striking resemblance to the accusation Sulkowicz made, even though she insists it is not a reenactment.

She accused viewers of the film that "If you watch this video without my consent, then I hope you reflect on your reasons for objectifying me and participating in my rape, for, in that case, you were the one who couldn't resist the urge to make 'Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol' about what you wanted to make it about: rape."

For those interested, Sulkowicz is expected to speak around 12:35pm on Friday. You can view the livestream here at that time.