{"id":9009,"date":"2023-10-18T01:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:09:51","slug":"clothesline-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/clothesline-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothesline Project Indoors: Survivors Past and Present Exhibit @ Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you are walking around in Douglass Library in these days, you will see an astonishing, colorful display of T-shirts in the “catwalk,” i.e., the elevated exhibit platform on the ground floor, also known as the collaborative study section. Presented by <\/span>Rutgers University Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance<\/span><\/a>, the exhibit, dubbed \u201cClothesline Project: Survivors Past and Present,\u201d aims to support and honor survivors and victims of interpersonal violence t<\/span>hroughout the month of October.<\/span>\"poster\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The decorated T-shirts and accompanying artwork are in line with similar displays featured in open spaces, including university campuses, since 1990. It was artist Rachel Carey-Harper<\/a> who came up with the idea of hanging color-coded T-shirts on a clothesline in a public place to point out violence against women after she made the shocking discovery that while 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam War; 51,000 women were killed around the same time by men who claimed to love them. Read more about the history in the Wikipedia entry<\/a>.
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“Gender violence is a topic that touches all of us, regardless of one’s nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc. This exhibition in collaboration with the VPVA is a way for the Libraries to participate in the advocacy against gender violence, raising awareness among library users” – says Kayo Denda,<\/a> Head, Margery Somers Foster Center & Librarian for Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University \u2013 New Brunswick Libraries, who was instrumental in bringing the exhibit to the Mabel Smith Douglass Library.<\/p>\n

The Clothesline Project National Network<\/a> details the significance of each color. Its author later composed the poem “A Few Lines on the Clothesline Project<\/a>” after “making my T-shirt and realizing that I had run out of colors to name all of the types of violence I had experienced.”
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Rutgers has a long tradition of hosting events to design these T-shirts, mostly as a an outdoor, one-day creative program on the College Avenue Campus. This is the first time these T-shirts have been put on display for a whole month inside a library, which proves that libraries are so much more than just books!<\/p>\n

Join us and browse the T-shirts and art in Douglass Library or in this online photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CONTENT WARNING: Some of the images may be upsetting to view. The texts may contain graphic content dealing with sexual abuse and assault.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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About previous events<\/h4>\n