The Clothesline Project is a nationwide activist project to document and demonstrate individual women's experiences with violence, particularly sexual violence. Women decorate t-shirts with their message or story, and they are displayed on a clothesline.
I'd never heard of it, until someone posted a link to photos of a CLP installation in Champaign-Urbana. I've done a lot of reading and processing over the years to try to deal with my own experiences of being the recipient of violence. I don't think it's really sunk in that a LOT of other people have had similar experiences, despite all that reading. Seeing those shirts makes it real somehow. Which makes it hurt less for myself, and more on behalf of others. Which is yet another step forward.
I should make a shirt like this one, to wear around the house. I still need reminding sometimes.
Relentless Inquiry 
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