On Oct. 18, Bronx AIDS Services sponsored its annual “Clothesline Project,” in Fordham Plaza. Domestic violence survivors and their supporters decorated white T-shirts with messages of encouragement, and strung the shirts along clotheslines across the square. The event is meant to be an outlet of expression for survivors of abuse, and an opportunity for them to symbolically air their dirty laundry, said organizer SoJourner McCauley.
“It originally started in Missouri, at a woman’s shelter in the 1980s,” she explained. “The women needed to talk, they needed to get their message out.”
October was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Last week, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson announced the recent procurement of a $999,092 grant to expand services and programs for victims of domestic abuse in the borough.
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