The Clothesline Project
The Clothesline Project raises awareness of intimate partner homicide throughout Minnesota. Purple shirts honors survivors, acting as a memorial for those who were killed.
The 2025 Clothesline Project honors 28 individuals who were murdered due to intimate partner homicide from October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.
September 29 – October 3 | Winona Health
October 6 – 10 | Winona Senior High School
October 12 – 17 | Winona State University
October 20 – 24 | Minnesota State College Southeast
October 27 – 31 |Saint Mary’s University
November 3 – 7 | Cotter Schools
October 15 | Meat Raffle benefitting the Advocacy Center of Winona
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Two Fathoms Brewery | 65 E. Front Street, Winona, MN 55987
Come out to the brewery for a chance to win some choice cuts from a meat raffle that supports the Advocacy Center of Winona.
October 21 | Sigma Tau Gamma Domestic Violence Awareness Booth
11 AM – 5 PM | Winona State University Gazebo
Information on prevention activities and how to donate will be available at the Gazebo.
October 23 | Venus of Mars: 20th Anniversary Documentary Screening
5 PM | Winona State University, SLC 120
Venus of Mars sparks vital conversations about gender identity, love, and resilience to remind us that understanding is key to ending gender-based violence.
Q and A with filmmaker Emily Goldberg, Venus De Mars, and Lynette Reini-Grandell
Co-sponsored by: Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of English, PRISM Student Organization, Advocacy Center of Winona
October 24 | Concert: Venus & All the Pretty Horses
Doors 8 PM | No Name Bar
October 28 | We Keep Us Safe: A writing workshop exploring personal and community safety.
12:30 PM | Winona State University, Keap Center Kryzsko Commons 162
What is safety? How do our histories and experiences inform when and how we feel safe? What are the systems in place that are meant to keep us safe, and how do they fail us? In this session we’ll read from authors such as Joy Harjo and Roxane Gay, use writing prompts to explore our personal relationship to safety, and share tools to help strengthen our networks to promote personal and community safety. The session is led by Josina Manu Maltzman, author of “Ride Safe,” an essay exploring the individual’s role in contributing to community safety. Josina is also a core member of Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP), a community safety project in the Twin Cities.
October 28 | Public Reading: Josina Manu Maltzman & Teo Shannon
6 PM | Winona State University, SLC 120
Josina Manu Maltzman (all pronouns) reads from their chapbook essay “”Ride Safe: One dyke’s journey to healing from the West Bank to the West Coast.” They are a writer, carpenter, and community organizer working for liberation in Palestine since 2000. Jo’s writings include “Ride Safe,” an essay exploring the individual’s role in contributing to community safety, and “Protective Presence in the West Bank,” which was awarded the 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction. Josina is a core member of Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP), a community safety project in the Twin Cities. For more about Josina’s writing and how it is informed by being in the trades for over twenty years and their organizing work as an antizionist Jew, visit www.josinamanumaltzman.com.
Teo Shannon (he/him) reads from his debut collection of poetry a chronology of blood. Teo Shannon is a queer, chronically ill, latino poet living in Winona, MN. He holds an MFA from Pacific University of Oregon and a PhD from University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a cofounder and co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph, a journal of flash fiction, poetry, and visual art. His debut collection a chronology of blood comes out from University of New Mexico Press September 2, 2025, more here: https://www.unmpress.com/a-chronology-of-blood/.