Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Clothesline Project
The clothesline project was started by a group of women in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the spring of 1990. It was a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women.
The Sexual Assault Support Centre organizes a clothesline project every year as part of their anti-violence week. As the SASC works with male, female and trans survivors, our clothesline is not restricted to only women's experiences of violence.
Through the project, survivors express their feelings about the physical, emotional, and/or sexual violence that they have experienced. Friends and family of survivors and anyone concerned by the levels of violence in our society also paint shirts as a way to show how the violence that their loved ones have experienced has affected them, as well as a way to express their support.
For more information on the Clothesline Project, please visit the website: http://www.clotheslineproject.org/
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