The Clothesline Project at Tallahassee Community College is on display for the week of April 23-27 around the walkways near the Student Union and Library. The project was created as a service learning project for Professors Lauren Fletcher and Kelly Thayer’s ENC1102 classes.
“This is not from personal experience,” Anas Al-Humiari said. “But, I have heard how other people have been verbally abused.”
From the realization that verbal abuse does scar people, Al-Humiari has created a shirt to bring awareness to others about this specific kind of abuse.
For Domestic Violence Awareness month, he designed a T-shirt hoping to make more people realize how much words can hurt someone, even if you apologize. The on the front of the T-shirt he wrote words and drew a picture. The powerful message says, “It was as if you hammered a nail into my heart… even when you apologize to remove it, the hole still remains.”
Al-Humiari thought of this concept because it is similar to how the words of abuse effect people.
If you hammer a nail into a piece of wood, you create a hole. When you remove the nail, the hole is still there. And that is the same way verbal abuse works. Al-Humiari said, “In the future, the person hurt still remembers the thing that happened to them.” Even if you apologize for the words still scar their memories.
The picture he drew is of shadows, one yelling and the other crying. So many people are hurt by words. And so many people still have the scars from verbal abuse.
