2010.54.2124

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Poster has a thin black border overall. The top edge of the poster has the text: "Phoolan De Vi / 'What Others Called A Crime, I Called Justice". The top of the poster has one small, stylized drawing repeated three times in a horizontal row. The drawing is of a female figure in a black headdress, she is shown from the neck up. Below the drawings is the text: "February 1981: A 24 Year Old Village Woman, Born Into Poverty In / India, Is Labeled 'The Bandit Queen'. She Is Charged With A / Number Of Major Offenses Including murder, Kidnap For Ransom / And Looting Villages. Most Importantly, She Is Accused Of / Killing 22 High-Caste Men In The Village Of Behmai. A / Massacre Undertaken As Revenge For The Death Of Her Lover And". The bottom of the poster has the same small drawing repeated three more times and the text: "Repeated Gang Rape Against Herself. The Question Was Often / Asked How A Poor, Uneducated And Illiterate Woman Became A / Bandit. But Phoolan De Vi's Life And The Injustice She / Suffered Because Of Her Gender And Her Class, Only Make Us / Wonder Why Other Low-Caste Women (For Phoolan's Experiences / Were Not In Any Way Unique) Did Not Also Become Bandits. / Celebrate Peoples History