Schedule and poster for Three Weeks in May, a political art piece speaking out on rape, organized by Women’s Community Inc.

Three Weeks in May exposed the extent of reported rapes in Los Angeles during a three-week performance in May, 1977. The performances revolved around daily police reports stamped on a wall-sized map of Los Angeles in the public shopping mall below City Hall. During the three weeks, Lacy went to the LAPD to obtain confidential rape reports from the precious day, and stamped their locations on the map. Each official report was surrounded by fainter stamp markings symbolizing the nine additional rapes estimated for every one reported. Lacy and her collaborators installed a second map next to the first, showing sites of resistance—organizations and self-help activities for injured women—and a schedule for the three weeks of activities and performances on violence prevention, which were the other side of Lacy’s project.