Shawls & Scarves Clothesline Project Walk a Mile
There are other ways besides a Silent Witness Exhibit to get your community aware and involved in stopping domestic violence.
The Silent Witness National Initiative encourages you to knit (or sew or weave) scarves and shawls for the men and women who’ve lost someone to domestic violence.
We are doing this in honor of Senator Paul Wellstone, who died tragically in a plane crash in October 25 of 2002, along with his wife, Sheila, his daughter and staff members. Paul fought tirelessly to end domestic violence and we want to honor his memory in this way by extended his caring to men who have felt the pain of domestic violence.
Sheila’s Shawls and Paul’ Scarves celebrates compassion in action. Each handmade shawl or scarf is a symbol of care and solidarity—created to comfort those who have lost a loved one to domestic violence and to remind them they are not forgotten. Link to information on how to make shawls and scarves.
Every stitch in a shawl or scarf tells a story of kindness and remembrance. For families and friends who have lost someone to domestic violence, these handcrafted gifts provide a gentle embrace when the world feels cold and uncertain. The warmth they offer symbolizes care, healing, and the strength of a community that stands together against violence. In giving or receiving one, we honor those who are gone and uplift those who must go on.
Together, we can wrap survivors in compassion and remind them that healing is possible. Every shawl and scarf carries more than warmth—it carries love, remembrance, and hope for a future free from violence. Your contribution, no matter how small, becomes part of a shared promise to care for one another.
The Clothesline Project
The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with graphic messages and illustrations that have been designed by women survivors of violence or by someone who loves a woman who has been killed. The purpose of the Project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence against women, to celebrate a woman’s strength to survive and to provide another avenue for her to courageously break the silence that often surrounds her experience.
This website will give you step by step instructions on how to set up your project. https://www.theclotheslineproject.org/start.html
Put Yourself in Her Shoes™
Men Ending Men’s Sexualized Violence
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® Put Yourself in Her Shoes™
Since 2001, men, women, and their families around the world have joined award-winning Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: The International Men’s March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence. It is a dramatic opportunity to raise awareness in your community about the serious causes, effects, and remediations to men’s sexualized violence. This link will take you to step by step how to organize.
What are Walk Events?
Why men in women’s high-heeled shoes? We ask men to walk in women’s high-heeled shoes to actively confront gender stereotypes and expectations. In this space of playful confrontation and openness, it’s possible to reveal and consider many of the underlying causes of men’s sexualized violence with less defensiveness and denial.
Why Men in Women’s Shoes?
There is an old saying: “You can’t understand another person’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” To get people listening, learning, and talking, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® education Events organize around men literally walking one mile in women’s high-heeled shoes. It’s not easy walking in these shoes, but it’s an experience around which a lot of education, self-reflection, and change happens. It’s impressive to see such a visually stunning public statement of listening, learning, allyship, and commitment. It’s an engaging event that gets the community talking about sex and gender biases, gender identity, gender relations, and men’s sexualized violence.