To raise awareness of sexual assault, the Women’s Outreach Center will turn the South Oval into a massive clothesline by displaying T-shirts decorated with students’ personal stories.
The clothesline project was created in Massachusetts in 1990 and more than 500 projects have been held internationally since then. OU’s participation is part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, said center coordinator Kathy Moxley.
T-shirts decorated with words and pictures by students will be displayed on the South Oval until Friday as a testimony about the violence that goes on against women, said Madeline Ambrose, center intern and event organizer.
It’s estimated that one in four women will be sexually assaulted by the end of their college careers, and OU students are no exception, said Ambrose, women and gender studies junior. She said decorating T-shirts should be a therapeutic and safe outlet for victims of sexual assault to tell their stories.
Ambrose said this month’s events are an attempt to make those on OU’s campus aware of what kind of sexual assault might be happening around them.
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