SAPA, SAGE to host t-shirt workshop
Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates and Students Advocating Gender Equality will give students a chance to share their stories and raise awareness about sexual violence through two workshops next week in the Bovee University Center.
Students will decorate t-shirts with personal stories or messages about different types of assault. The workshops will serve as a precursor to SAPA’s main event, the Clothesline Project, which will take place at the end of this month.
“It’s a national project. Each of the different shirts relate to different types of sexual aggression,” said co-coordinator Emma Tuthill. “It’s like this public display of survivor stories, but they’re all entirely anonymous. It’s a really great way to share your story without having to attach a name to it.”
Students interested in contributing a shirt to the project can attend either workshop from 8 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday in the Gold Room or from 8 to 10 p.m. on Sept. 25 in the Mackinaw Room.
Once completed, the shirts will be showcased on a clothesline in front of the UC on October 1 as well as at a downtown location earlier that week.
