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Black Velvet feels great in a crowd

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A white, blond, female model poses by sitting up straight and cross-legge...

Black Velvet feels smooth on the rocks

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A white, blond, female model poses in the center of the advertisement in a...

Can This Happen To You? Fight Back! Learn Self Defense

Poster promoting a women's self defense and martial arts demonstration, a workshop to benefit the feminist magazine New Women's Times

Close Windows

Flyer calling of people to boycott Hollywood film "Windows," in protest of its harmful lesbian representation

Community Beautification Projects

Newspaper clipping that includes photograph of Black Velvet billboard at the intersection of Monroe Avenue and I-490 taken by Laura Carstensen.

Defense Committee | Donations Needed

Flyer created by the defense committee of the Rochester Women Against Violence Against Women asking for donations to support the payment of legal expenses incurred by four women arrested and put on...

Destroy Rapist Culture | It's in Your Own Backyard

Flyer promoting R-WAVAW slideshow presentations in Rochester

Dundalk News Co., Inc.

An adult magazine and bookstore located on South Avenue, across from the Holiday Cine Theater

Feel the Black Velvet

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A whiskey bottle tipped on its side dominates the billboard, and the copy ab...

Feminism, Direct Action and Violence Against Women | Full Moon Dance at Snake Sisters Cafe

Poster promoting two separate R-WAVAW events. The left-hand side of the poster promotes a screening and discussion of the video "A Crime Against Women," about the arrest and trial of four R-WAVAW m...

Feminist Perspectives on Pornography

Select pages from program for conference that was sponsored by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media. Two R-WAVAW members, Marg Hall and Martha Gever, participated in the conference and a...

Full Moon Dance

Newspaper advertisement for "Full Moon Dance," sponsored by the Rochester Women Against Violence Against Women, 9 p.m. Friday, Snake Sisters Cafe, 666 South Ave.

Holiday Cine Theater

A movie theater that screened pornographic films located on East Main Street. The theater was attached to a Holiday Inn hotel

International Women's Day ~ March 8

Flyer promoting International Women's Day activities at art and activist organizing spaces in Rochester

Karen Hagberg

Kodak Hall Eastman Theatre

The Eastman School of Music

March Against Violence Against Women

Flyer promoting anti-violence women's march on streets of Rochester

Marg Hall

Marg Hall lived in Rochester until 1987, where, at the age of 40, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Catholic schools and spent 8 years in the convent as a Sister of Mercy. While...

May Day (East Main Street)

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted to raise awareness for May Day 1977. On the poster is an image of a sentence spray painted on the wa...

May Day (Lyell and State Street)

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted to raise awareness for May Day 1977. On the poster is an image of a sentence spray painted on the wa...

May Day (Monroe Avenue)

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted to raise awareness for May Day 1977. On the poster is an image of a sentence spray painted on the wa...

Monroe County Community Organizers People's Club (The People's Club)

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Self-Help Productions" of the street sign for "The People's Club," a Black cultural center and community organizing center located on Jefferson Avenue.

Monroe County Hall of Justice

Monroe Movie Theater

A movie theater that screened pornographic films located on Monroe avenue. Members of R-WAVAW organized protests outside of this theater

Monroe Theater's Movie Supports Rape—No Women Deserve It

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a poster wheat-pasted directly underneath a Black Velvet billboard advertisement on Monroe Avenue. The poster reads: "Monroe T...