The LSU Women’s Center and Baton Rouge Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response are bringing the Monument Quilt to North Boulevard Town Square today, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
The quilt is being shown as part of a 12-city tour started by FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an organization out of Baltimore that aims to facilitate conversations about the realities of sexual violence. Sections of the quilt have been crowd-sourced from various organizations and cities across the country and features art created by victims. By the end of the quilt’s tour, the display expands to more than a mile long, spelling out a message that victims of sexual assault and rape are not alone, STAR Executive Director Racheal Hebert says.
Hebert says STAR has created its own quilt, which will be a part of today’s display and carried on throughout the rest of the tour.