Clothesline Project

Witness, remember, and stand with survivors.

Each April, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we invite our community to be part of this moving display. Survivors, and those who care about them, create shirts that carry personal messages of pain, hope, healing, and strength. Every shirt tells a story. Every story matters.

The display is a visual reminder of the impact of sexual violence in our community and of the courage it takes to speak out. Together, we honor survivors and help break the silence.

What is the Clothesline Project?

The display provides an opportunity for survivors to bear witness to their personal experience of violence, and to celebrate their transformation from victim to survivor in a powerful statement of solidarity.
The Clothesline Project is part of an international effort to educate people about the personal impact of sexual violence.
The project offers adults and children & their supporters, an opportunity to have a voice surrounding issues of sexual abuse and assault.
Survivors express themselves artistically by creating personally designed T-shirts in a variety of media, which are displayed together publicly.
For many survivors, the Clothesline Project offers an important step on their individual healing journey, by “breaking the silence”.

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