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- T-shirts are part of a clothesline display at Augusta University’s Forest Hills Campus. Photo by Brynn Allen.
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- T-shirts are part of a clothesline display at Augusta University’s Forest Hills Campus. Photo by Brynn Allen.
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- Teal ribbons adorn Augusta University’s Forest Hills Campus in observance of sexual assault awareness month. Photo by Brynn Allen
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- T-shirts are part of a clothesline display at Augusta University’s Forest Hills Campus. Photo by Brynn Allen.
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- Teal ribbons adorn Augusta University’s Forest Hills Campus in observance of sexual assault awareness month. Photo by Brynn Allen
Augusta University kicked off sexual assault awareness month in April with the Clothesline Project, a visual display to help bring awareness and show support for those in the community and on campus that have experienced some form of sexually motivated violence.
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On April 2, during the Jaguars’ softball and baseball games, teams wore their teal jerseys, the color of sexual assault awareness. Guests were allowed to write chalk messages on the sidewalks and participate in a raffle for T-shirts, according to a news release from Augusta University.
The clothesline will move across Augusta University’s three main campuses to give students, faculty and community members the opportunity to read the shirts designed by survivors of sexual assault and their loved ones.
Since its local adaptation in 1996, the Clothesline Project has served as a way for the community to come together to raise awareness for an often-overlooked issue. After 25 years, the decorating of T-shirts to hang on the clothesline has become a healing tool for all survivors including men, women and children. It allows them to share their experience and speak out about the prevalence of abuse in their community and world-wide. Â
“When you see a small shirt, a child size, (you realize) it doesn’t just happen to adults, it doesn’t just happen to females. It happens to children and males as well,” Julie Kneuker, the event organizer and Augusta University’s Title IX investigator in the Office of Compliance and Risk Management said in the release.
Through April 12, the display will be at the Forest Hills Campus. It will then be moved to the atrium of the Student Activities Center on the Health Sciences Campus from April 12-20.
From April 20 to months’ end, it will be at the Summerville Campus, where it can be seen by students and anyone driving past the campus via Walton Way.
For more on sexual assault awareness month events, click here.
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