I tried to get information regarding the Clothesline Project from researching as much as I could through the website. I did not know anything about this project before looking through this site, but I am completely impressed with what I was reading. The way this project calls for action is for women to be strong enough and care enough to participate in this and make a shirt if they have something to stand up against. It shows a strategy of coming together to fight a terrible act, and make others become aware of it. The way it affects other women that have not experienced this abuse is for them to realize that it is going on and needs to be fought against.
Reading The Trials of Girlhood brought up similar calls for action and strategies. After facing such abuse the young girl does not know how she can stand up for herself when it is someone who "owns" her doing the abusing. The line that struck me in this passage and made me think back to the Clothesline project was the ending..."striving to help those who cannot help themselves. God bless them! God give them strength and courage to go on!" because it reminds me of others standing up for the rights of people they do not even know. While this girl did not think she could do anything to help herself because of the position she was in, she had the hopes that others were standing up against what she was going through.
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I think a lot of people who are victims of this type of violence continually feel as though they do not have the ability to stand up for themselves or reach out to someone. This to me is very sad. I think it is important for organizations like the Clothesline Project to exist to help give people a voice when they feel as though they do not have one.
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