'Fearless' Clothesline Project recognizes start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month

The "Fearless" Clothesline Project is now outside of the County Government Building in Goshen.

News 12 Staff

Oct 1, 2021, 7:37 PM

Updated 1,182 days ago

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Hundreds of intimately decorated T-shirts are now on display in Orange County, recognizing the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The "Fearless" Clothesline Project is now outside of the County Government Building in Goshen.
It's done each year by the domestic violence support group and symbolizes a time decades ago, when women would talk about domestic violence with other women while hanging their clothes to dry.
The shirts are decorated by survivors as part of their healing or in memory of victims who died.
Since 2004, advocate say 25 people were killed by domestic violence in Orange County.