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'Shirts' offer hope for violence victims
The Advocate
The “Clothesline Project” will be exhibited in the Fireplace Gallery starting Monday 19 until Oct. 29.
Administrative Assistant Pam Kuretich said, “This is not an art exhibit but a display that calls attention to violence against women.”
The Clothesline Project is a nationwide project that was started in the summer of 1990 by a women’s group from Cape Cod, Mass.
The project lets women affected by violence express their emotions by decorating a shirt.
The shirts are color-coded to show the form of abuse and whether the victim survived the abuse they experienced.
White shirts represent women who died because of violence, yellow or beige shirts represent battered or assaulted women, and red, pink and orange shirts are for survivors of rape and sexual assault.
Blue and green t-shirts represent survivors of incest and sexual abuse, purple or lavender represents women who were attacked because of their sexual orientation while black shirts represent the women who were attacked for political reasons.
Health and Wellness Coordinator Chrissy Bloome is coordinating the exhibit in the Fireplace Lounge.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and in observance the college is showing this exhibit for the remaining two weeks of the month.
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