The Clothesline Project: More Event Photos The Clothesline Project, an international effort to raise the awareness about sexual violence against women, began in the fall of 1990 by a group in Massachusetts as an extension of their annual Take Back the Night March and Rally. Womanspace and Montgomery County NOW organize their own Clothesline Project twice a year, in October and in March, on the Virginia Tech campus. Each t-shirt strung on the clothesline on the Drillfield was created by a survivor in the New River Valley with materials donated by Montgomery County NOW. The shirts various colors represent different types of abuse. White represents women who died because of violence; yellow or beige represents battered or assaulted women; red, pink, and orange are for survivors of rape and sexual assault; blue and green t-shirts represent survivors of incest and sexual abuse; purple or lavender represent women attacked because of their sexual orientation and black is for women who were handicapped as a result of their abuse. This moving and, often times, disturbing, display consists of hundreds of shirts produced by Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding community. Home Womanspace is a non-profit, student-run organization that meets weekly, Wednesdays at 7:00-9:00PM in the Women's Center Conference Room