Clothesline Project brings awareness to sexual violence
Featured image by Asli Shebe.
All quotes have been taken directly from the Clothesline Project website.
For this year’s sexual assault awareness month SCAD’s Residence Life and Housing, Counseling and Student Support Services and Savannah’s Coastal Empire Rape Crisis Center are hosting a series of events to raise awareness on sexual violence. One of these events include The Clothesline Project.
Photo taken from the Counseling and Student Services blog
Students are invited to come and decorate a T-shirt in order to raise awareness on sexual assault. On April 29 all of the T-shirts will be put on display at the Hive Porch and will stay up until May 1.
“This very action serves many purposes. It acts as an educational tool for those who come to view the Clothesline; it becomes a healing tool for anyone who makes a shirt — by hanging the shirt on the line, survivors, friends and family can literally turn their back on some of that pain of their experience and walk away; finally it allows those who are still suffering in silence to understand that they are not alone.”
The Clothesline Project began in 1990 when a group of women in Cape Cod decided to use clotheslines as a means of raising awareness, as the clotheslines signify the preconceived notion of laundry as “women’s work.”
“It is the very process of designing a shirt that gives each woman a new voice with which to expose an often horrific and unspeakable experience that has dramatically altered the course of her life.”
The Clothesline Project will be taking place April 9 at JO’s from 12-3p.m., April 16 at the Terrace Bus Stop from 10-12 p.m. and April 23 at the Hive from 5-8 p.m. For more information on the project visit the Clothesline Project website or SCAD Counseling and Student Support Services blog.
Written by Asli Shebe.
Asli Shebe is a senior writing major from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She began working for District in 2014 as a staff writer, then copy editor, A&E editor, Chief Assignment editor and finally, Editor-in-Chief in 2017. Asli currently holds the record for obtaining the most job titles during her time at District. When she’s not writing for District you can find her biking around the Historic District of Savannah at odd hours of the day.
