PUT THE RECORD IN THE ROOM
Help Fund The Wrong Questions Project at Wellspring
October 10, 2026 | Malta, New York
GOAL: $10,000
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On October 10, The Wrong Questions Project will bring its next full exhibit to Wellspring in Malta, New York.
We are raising $10,000 to fund the installation.
The Wrong Questions Project begins with questions we know too well:
"What were you wearing?"
"Why didn't she just leave?"
"Why didn't you just tell someone?"
These are not neutral questions.
They redirect scrutiny from the perpetrator to the person who was harmed. They relocate violence into a victim's clothing, choices, memory, fear, silence, delay, or attempts to survive. When the victim does not survive, the questions are redirected toward the family members left behind.
The exhibits ask us to look somewhere else.
At the perpetrator.
At the violence.
At the evidence.
At what the survivor actually said.
At what institutions knew.
At what they did.
And at what they failed to do.
Put the Record Beside the Disbelief
The Wrong Questions Project exhibits are not illustrations or artistic interpretations. They are documentation.
Clothing. Objects. Survivor testimony. Family witness. Case records. Police records. Statistics. Photographs. Audio. Video. Words that were spoken. Questions that were asked. Evidence that was ignored, minimized, misunderstood, or absorbed into institutional procedure.
We place these things together because the wrong questions change what people see. They make the victim the subject of inquiry. The exhibit changes the subject back.
Why Wellspring
On October 10, this work will enter a community space devoted to responding to domestic violence and sexual assault. That matters.
The purpose of bringing The Wrong Questions Project into communities is not simply to tell people that victim-blaming is wrong. It is to make the mechanisms of victim-blaming visible.
It is to show what disappears when we ask why she stayed instead of asking what made leaving dangerous. What disappears when we ask what she was wearing instead of asking why someone decided to assault her. What disappears when we ask why a child did not tell instead of asking how grooming works, why speaking can be dangerous, whether adults listened, and what happened when someone did tell.
The questions determine what we investigate. They determine whose behavior requires explanation. They determine who is believed. And they can determine what happens next.
What Your Contribution Makes Possible
Our goal is $10,000.
A $200 contribution funds the materials for one complete exhibit storyboard.
A $1,000 contribution helps fund transportation of the exhibit installation.
A $2,500 contribution underwrites one quarter of the full Wellspring campaign.
A $5,000 contribution funds half.
And gifts of every amount move us toward putting the complete exhibit into the room on October 10.
Why This Work Exists
The Wrong Questions Project is survivor-led, survivor-centred, and surviving-family-centred.
The people represented in these exhibits are not examples of an issue. They are people. They have names. They have histories. They have families. Some survived. Some did not. Some told immediately. Some told years later. Some left. Some could not leave. Some sought help from systems that protected them. Others sought help from systems that failed them.
The point is not that all of their experiences are the same. The point is that none of them should have been required to account for violence they did not cause.
Help Us Put the Record in the Room
On October 10, we want the complete exhibit standing at Wellspring. We need $10,000 to do it.
If you believe we have been asking victims, survivors, and surviving families the wrong questions, help us ask different ones. Help us make the evidence visible. Help us put the record in the room.
The Wrong Questions Project, Inc. is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
IRS EIN: 42-3405697
Contributions to this campaign support The Wrong Questions Project's October 10, 2026 Wellspring exhibit. The Wrong Questions Project is a separate nonprofit organization from Wellspring.