Blood & Thunder Women's Roller Derby Magazine, Winter 2008/2009
Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Blood & Thunder Women's Roller Derby Magazine, Winter 2008/2009. The cover has a color photograph of two roller derby athletes skating on the track with white printing, "Regionals [/] Wrap Up".
- Dale Rio (aka Black Dahlia), was a member of many roller derby teams throughout her derby career, cut short due to injury. She was a member of the LA Derby Dolls, one of the original teams of the modern era and brought roller derby to Auckland, New Zealand, founding the Pirate City Rollers. She was the founder, editor, writer and photographer for the first roller derby publication of the modern era, Blood and Thunder, which soon became an international publication. Rio was also the founder of Shimmy, a 1950s-style pocketbook sized burlesque magazine. The cross-cultural intersections of roller derby and burlesque create a unique look into the sport that is dominated by women that includes performance along with athleticism and physicality.
- Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2022.0148.12
- accession number
- 2022.0148
- catalog number
- 2022.0148.12
- Object Name
- magazine, roller derby
- magazine
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in x 1/8 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm x .3175 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- name of sport
- Roller Derby
- level of sport
- Professional
- web subject
- Women
- Record ID
- nmah_2021483
