Sexual Assault Awareness Month – The Clothesline Project

As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Black Hawk College presents The Clothesline Project – Bearing witness to violence against women since 1990.

The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with graphic messages and illustrations that have been designed by women survivors of violence or by someone who loves a woman who has been killed. The purpose is to increase awareness of the impact of violence against women, to celebrate a woman’s strength to survive and to provide another avenue for her to courageously break the silence that often surrounds her experience.

The Clothesline Project began when members of the Cape Cod Women’s Agenda hung a clothesline across the Village Green in Hyannis, MA, with 31 shirts designed by survivors of assault, rape and child sexual abuse.

View the Clothesline Project in Building A, upper level.

Sponsored by the BHC Counseling Department and Freedom House.