Clothesline Project

Posted by Riya (Blacksburg, United States) on 21 April 2007 in Miscellaneous.

Clothesline Project consists of 455 T-shirts with colors ranging from white to black to signify how hundreds of women have been victims of violence. The shirts are color coded : White is for women who have been killed by violence, yellow and beige are for women who have been battered and assualted. Red, pink and orange are for those raped or sexually assaulted. Blue and green signify child abuse. Purple shirts are for women who have been attacked because of their sexual orientation. Black shirts are for those handicapped by violence.
Each shirt tells a story of an individual.
Their stories are meant to create an image of hundreds of women standing shoulder to shoulder, telling and sharing their stories of violence in color.