The Clothesline Project is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women.
There’s been a CLP display on the NSCC campus for the past few days. I stopped by yesterday after class and took a few photos. Every time I see this, I’m struck by the heartbreaking and uplifting power of the stories represented by these shirts. Incredible things to see.
I’ve also created a Flickr CLP Project group, as a tag search led me to quite a few other photos of CLP displays around the country.
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This exibit made a stop over here at WSU. It was really moving and had a constant crowd around it.
The Clothesline Project made a stop at my college every year, and it was always very intense. It reminds me of PostSecret a lot: private feelings made very public. But it definitely transcends PostSecret in intensity.