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you probably saw a lot of colorful handpainted
T-shirts hanging on a clothesline.
What you witnessed was the first of
three displays of The Clothesline Project
Started in Hyannis, Mass. in the fall of
1990, the project is an effort to bring the
issue of violence against women into
view and to provide an avenue for
survivors, victims and their families and
friends to break their silence and begin
to heal. Since then, Clothesline Projects
have been displayed in communities
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respectively, decided to start a Clotheslir
Project here at USC to be displaye
during Women's History Month.
The Office of Sexual Assault Service
together with Rape Crisis Network an
Sistercare, provided women on and o
campus with the opportunity to tell thei
stories through designing shirts the
reflected their feelings about thei
experiences. About 80 shirts wer
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