Clothesline Project Display at Cultural Center of Cape Cod

    The Clothesline Project started on Cape Cod in 1990 by survivors of intimate partner violence, to address the issue of violence against women. While 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam War, there were 51,000 women killed around the same time by men who claimed to love them. The Clothesline is a vehicle for survivors affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a tee shirt. The shirts are hung on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women.  It is a visual reminder of statistics that we often ignore.