“The Clothesline Project” to empower survivors and their families.
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(GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.) – The Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center at Aquinas College is proud to sponsor "The Clothesline Project," a week-long display of t-shirts decorated
by domestic violence survivors and their families, and in memory of those who did
not survive.
The Clothesline Project
Date: October 8 - 12, 2012
Location: The Wege Center Lobby
Description: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the Clothesline Project display, which takes place in over 500 communities, is a means to raise awareness of the costs of domestic violence and what is needed for its prevention. The Clothesline Project is a display of t-shirts decorated by the survivors and families of victims to serve as a public testimony to the problem of violence against women and to provide an avenue to break the silence that surrounds their experiences.
The Clothesline Project
Date: October 8 - 12, 2012
Location: The Wege Center Lobby
Description: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the Clothesline Project display, which takes place in over 500 communities, is a means to raise awareness of the costs of domestic violence and what is needed for its prevention. The Clothesline Project is a display of t-shirts decorated by the survivors and families of victims to serve as a public testimony to the problem of violence against women and to provide an avenue to break the silence that surrounds their experiences.