That T-shirt was one of a few that Ms. Baumgardner had considered, and rejected, as a key component of a multimedia rape awareness project she has initiated.
Cristel Amiss, from Black Woman's Rape Action Project, which has sought to help the women fight their claims, said: "Hunger strike has been historically the protest of incarceration.
Some of the others she points to - the chaotic privatisation of rubbish collection, the £100,000 she suggests was spent chasing city status, the £150,000 on the failed bid to become European City of Culture, the axing of measly grants to the Rape Crisis Project and Women's Centre - are less easy to laugh off.
(Examples of such work include the Los Angeles anti-rape performance project of Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Leibowitz, In Mourning and in Rage (1977) and Womanhouse (1972), a collaboration of twenty-four artists).
According to the Crimes of War Project, rape has been a punishable war crime for centuries, but this has rarely been observed.
You can winkle out social comment, if you like — at the time, many viewers projected rape scenarios — but you will have stopped looking.
Twenty years ago, she began a research project involving rape victims in the Philadelphia area.
One of the first people to respond later released a statement on Facebook calling the project "digital rape" because he hadn't known the conversation would be broadcast.
Complemented by models that allow to scale-up the effects of climatic, crop cultivation, and population parameter on regional GM rape seed dispersal, the project could show that the plantation of GM rape seed would cause systemic risks [67 69].
Former West Midlands Police detective superintendent Cath Hannon now sits as a trustee for the locally-based Rape and Sexual Violence Project.
