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PHOTOS BY HUNTER YATES | SPARTAN DAILY
Shirts hang on 7th Street Plaza with various personal anecdotes in demonstration for Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Awareness Month on Wednesday.
SJSU community honors survivors By Hunter Yates STAFF WRITER
Nearly 650 T-shirts lined up 7th Street Plaza to honor victims and loved ones for Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. San José State students made T-shirts on Wednesday for the Clothesline project and strung them up all along 7th Street Plaza. Different experiences and personally shared, impactful messages were
written on each shirt in acknowledgment. October was first declared National Domestic Violence Awareness Month back in 1989, according to an NCTSN web page. It is a month of acknowledgment for survivors and individuals that have lost loved ones to domestic violence, annually there are 10 million or more abuse victims, according to the same source. The Clothesline Project started in 1990 when a member of the Cap Cod’s
Women’s Defense Agenda learned that 51,000 women were killed by men who claimed to love them, according to a Utah Valley University web page. This statistic inspired the women’s group to display the issue of violence, according to the same source. In the past, SJSU’s Gender Equity Center typically put on this demonstration, according to the Gender Equity Center web page. The Gender Equity Center is a place for students and members to
be supported through social justice, respect and safety through their gender and perceived gender, according to its web page. Soma De Bourbon, a sociology and interdisciplinary social sciences professor, organized the annual event and shares what the event means to her and students. “We talk more about the rape of young girls,” said Bourbon. “But in my experience, if we’re talking, we are trying to stop the violence in our
Shirts with drawn on art work and quotes hang in between trees in alignment with the Clothesline Project.
communities and we don’t talk about the rape of young boys, we wont be able to solve it.” Forty T-shirts were put up on Wednesday, and in total there were 650 shirts lined up on both sides of 7th Street Plaza. Nearly 1 in 4 or 22% of children witnessed violence in intimate partner violence cases filed in the state courts, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s web page. Some examples of the type of messages written on the T-shirts include; “You’re not your abuse, you’re strong and you’re beautiful” and “Cats against catcalling.” Jenny Tran, a thirdyear pre-nursing student, explored messages written on the shirts with her friends. “One of my favorite messages I read was that someone's love shouldn’t hurt.” Tran said. Around 38% of college students don’t know where to get help for themselves when experiencing dating abuse as a victim, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. “I think we have around 35,000 students and we only have one advocate,” said Bourbon “We have partnered with her and that’s really challenging to be on a campus that doesn’t
have a robust prevention or system to address these type(s) of things.” She said it always surprises her how many of our students are survivors. Jessica Short, the program coordinator for the Gender Equity Center, said that this wasn’t the only event that happened this month. “One of the biggest programs we do this semester is the ambassador training program which has (a) five part series, " Short said. “It is a way for people to get more involved with our center, and it goes over topics like consent, healthy relationships, sexual violence culture, reproductive justice and we do an active bystander training as well.” The Gender Equity Ambassador Program gives San José state students training on topics of gender equity and violence prevention, according to the gender equity web page. “I feel like love can apply to many aspects in life, whether it would be with family, friends, relationships or partners, people deserve to be loved and spread love,” Tran said.
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