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The Clothesline Project Combats Violence White represents women who have died of violence. Yellow or beige for women who have been battered or assaulted. Pink, red or orange for those raped or sexually assaulted. Blue or green for survivors of incest or child sexual abuse. Purple or lavender for women attacked because of their sexual orientation. Black for women handicapped by violence.
“The green and blue shirts are really hard to look at,” Chelsea Benincasa, a junior Honors student in the Communication major and Urban Affairs and Planning minor at Tech said. “Shirts that say things like ‘Daddy's Little Princess’ hurt so badly. Sometimes when you think their story can't get any worse, it does. Keep reading and you will see things you never thought could happen in this world; and they have, right here in Montgomery County.” The Clothesline Project, which originated in New England, is primarily a silent event. It may be the first time many stories of rape, incest and abuse will be told using t-shirts publicly displayed on campus. This project, along with workshops preceding the Drillfield viewing and the 17th annual Take Back the Night Rally are sponsored by Montgomery County National Organization for Women (NOW), Womanspace, Women’s Center at VT, and Women’s Resource Center. |
From 9:00 a.m., to 5:00 p.m., on March 29 and 30, shirts will hang side by side on a clothesline on the Drillfield. Each one with messages and images by survivors of violence on them. According to the program, these shirts bear witness to the violence committed against women on a daily basis.