Nightmare on 95 contest lanyard used by Dale Rio, aka Black Dahlia, 2011
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 2011 Nightmare on 95 contest lanyard used by Dale Rio, aka Black Dahlia. There are two contest badges attached to a black nylon cord lanyard. The first "Media" badge is white with two women facing each other in the center with a shield in the background. "All Access" is written in gray throughout the background of the badge. Printed in black and white in the center "2011 [/] WFTDA East Region Playoffs [/] Nightmare [/] on [/] 95." "Blood & Thunder" printed in black magic marker at the bottom. The second "Sponsor" badge is the same as the first.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Roller Derby
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0148.09
label: accession number
content: 2022.0148
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0148.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contest lanyard, roller derby
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall length: 25 in; 63.5 cm
label: Measurements
content: part: badge: 5 1/4 in x 4 in; 13.335 cm x 10.16 cm