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This image came from our visit to special collections. It is a picture of an advertisement from the New Women’s Times newspaper, which was published in Rochester beginning in the 1980s . This specific image is from the January 1982 edition of the newspaper. This image is interesting to me because it represents the social issue of women’s imprisonment, and more specifically the ways in which women of color and minority experiences are treated especially negatively in prisons. We have just read the Combahee River Collective Statement and this advertisement reminded me of some of the themes brought up in that reading.

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