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...Clothesline Project was the most visible aspect of Take Back the Night (TBTN) week, seven days dedicated to promoting campus awareness about sexual violence that ended this past Saturday. Smack in the center of Tercentary Theater, T-shirts painted by victims of sexual assault hung in the spring sun; every student who went to class or section walked by that display whether he or she attended other TBTN events...
...exhibit was a powerful memorial to the profound pain victims of sexual assault experience. A printed sign at the display said the goal of the project was to provide a forum for “survivors of a crime that is all too often kept silent to LET THEIR VOICES BE HEARD,” and certainly the exhibit met this objective when a victim admitted on a shirt, “I was raped by a group of boys...
...sexual assault—and I write this as a self-described feminist and as someone who has consistently tried to build women up at this University, not tear them down—the Clothesline Project fell short in that it did not adequately empower potential victims of sexual assault to seek justice for themselves, nor did it effectively advocate for the reduction of sexual assault at Harvard...
...part of TBTN that almost every student saw should not only be a forum for victims’ expression, but should also be proactive and direct in seeking an end to sexual assault at Harvard...
...clothesline relied on the shock factor of what was written on the T-shirts to make viewers aware that sexual assault happens—even to people at Harvard—and presumably to discourage potential attackers from raping...