BATTLEDRESS is a new collaborative project between writer and artist Rachel Genn, writer and filmmaker Debbie Ballin and Human Studio.

 

This immersive project uses archive and oral history to explore working class women's histories of fashion, fighting and allegiance.

"You could get into Turn Ups night club in 1980's Sheffield if you were 15 but only if the bouncers fancied you. If they did you could be wearing whatever you liked jodhpurs, Prince of Wales check suit, yoiu could even be carrying a walking cane. We weren't fully out of the shadow of A Clockwork Orange and so found ourselves getting away with a tasteless mix of of aristo and militaria. It would be nearly ten years until Bikini Kill released 'Rebel Girl' but we already lived by the line, 'That girl think she's the queen of the neighbourhood I've got news fro you she is!' (R Genn 2020)

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