The Clothesline Project was started by a group of women in Cape Cod, MA in the summer of 1990. They organized around one statistic that was released by the Men’s Rape Prevention Project that found that 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam War and 51,000 women were murdered by their significant others in the same time. One of the organizers, visual artist Rachel Carey-Harper, modeled her project off the power of the AIDS quilt project, suggested using clothesline and shirts as a way for women to tell their stories. The Clothesline Project allows survivors of domestic violence to “air their dirty laundry.” Survivors will decorate T shirts to tell their stories, either with artwork or words, and hang it on a clothesline. It shows that other people suffering are not alone and that domestic violence is not a private issue but a public health issue. The Clothesline Project gives people a way to share their experiences; to start telling their story and to heal. It starts dialogues. It shows that the people who experience domestic, sexual, or emotional violence aren’t just statistics but people in our communities and neighborhoods. The Clothesline Project started with 31 shirts on the village green in Hyannis, Massachusetts and has since grown to an estimated 500-600 Clothesline Projects internationally and 50,000-60,000 shirts. The Clothesline Project will be on display during the Take Back The Night rally on Friday, April 28th from 7-9pm on the Commons.
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