Activism Map

Lesbian bar. Members of R-WAVAW often met up and congregated here before and after street activities.

Lesbian-owned and operated cafe in the South Wedge, where today is the current Lux Lounge

A Black owned and operated food cooperative. The director of the Baden Street Food Coop was Lilian McNeil, and Pauline Wilson was the Baden Street Neighborhood Development.

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Self-Help Productions" of a Black owned and operated art gallery founded by the late Clyde Sanford.

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Self-Help Productions" of a liquor store cooperatively owned and operated by The People's Club. The store was directly down the street from the 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.

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 wall of a local union meeting place. The sentence has been modified by a passerby on the street so that the sentence now reads: "Unite and Get the Carter Off Our Backs."

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 wall of a local union meeting place. To the left of the poster are posters promoting the Genesee Co-op Pottery.

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 wall of a union building (Local 509-IUE-AFL-CIO-1546). Originally, the spray paint read: Working Men of the World Unite and Get the Rich Off Our Backs." Members of R-WAVAW modified the sentence so that it would read: "Working Women Unite and Get the Men Off Our Backs."

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 above the image reads: "Feel the Black Velvet." Underneath the billboard are a slew of posters wheat-pasted by members of R-WAVAW protesting violence against women.

Screenshot from the Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a billboard advertisement for Black Velvet whiskey. A white, blond female model is seated cross-legged in a black, short athletic dress, her long hair blowing back from her arms intertwined over her knees. The ad copy reads: "Nothing Beats the Feel of Black Velvet"

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-legged in a short-sleeved black jumpsuit, mimicking the shape and stance of the whiskey bottle that is scaled to be the same size as her. The ad copy reads: "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 in the center of the advertisement in a long black dress and heels, and lays on her side and smiles directly into the camera. "Smash Patriarchy" posters are wheat-pasted to the bottom of the billboard.

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 Theater's Movie Supports Rape No Women Deserve It." The word "No" has been crossed out on the poster so that it reads "Women Deserve It."

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of a version of the "Smash Patriarchy" poster wheat-pasted to the side of a building underneath a Black Velvet billboard advertisement. The "P" on the poster has been written over with a "M" so that the poster now reads: "Smash Matriarchy."

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards & Spray Paint" of a battered, torn-up version of the "Smash Patriarchy" poster wheat-pasted to the front door of the adult bookstore Triangle Adult News

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint." The screenshot contains an image of a version of the "Smash Patriarchy" poster wheat-pasted on a building at the intersection of Lyell and State Streets. Written in the blank space on the bottom half of the poster are the words "Father's Day"

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

Screenshot from Portable Channel video "Billboards and Spray Paint" of an adult magazine and bookstore located on Monroe Avenue.

The Eastman School of Music

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

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

Photograph of feminist protestors wheatpasting a handmade poster to the outside of the Gannett Building in downtown Rochester

Photograph of a billboard with an advertisement for Black Velvet Whisky, comprised of a white blond woman lying on her stomach with a full glass next to her left hand. The billboard is dotted with splotches of egg or paint. On the far left-hand side of the billboard, a nondescript figure peers around the edge.

An adult magazine and bookstore located directly across from Kodak Hall Eastman Theatre.

A go-go dance and strip club that used to be located on East Main Street, adjacent to Kodak Hall Eastman Theatre.