Name/TitleProgramme: Pride of the North
About this objectColour printed A3 programme folded into A5 sections: Newcastle Roller Girls (NRG) Pride of the North vs Vagine Regime UK at the Centre for Sport on Saturday 9th August 2014. The programme states that "our own LGBTQA (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered-Queer/Questioning-Ally...phew!) team, Pride of the North, is made up of our finest queer skaters and their supporters from across the NRG family, and they've been training hard in preparation for their first public performance as a team."
Fully digitised (8 pages)
MakerNewcastle Roller Derby
Date Made2014
Period2010s
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 210 x W: 150 mm
Subject and Association Keywordssport - roller derby
Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+
Subject and Association Keywordsqueer roller derby
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://www.newcastlerollerderby.co.uk:
Founded in 2009 as Newcastle Roller Girls – Newcastle Roller Derby is an athletic and social non-profit organisation committed to improving ourselves and others through the sport of roller derby. We strive for athletic excellence and competitive success in the growing world of roller derby, embracing people of all shapes, sizes, ages, backgrounds and skill levels. In line with WFTDA, we are committed to inclusive and anti-discrimination practices in relation to all transgender women, intersex women, and gender-expansive participants. For more information, please see the WFTDA gender statement. We became a full WFTDA member in September 2014 and the hard work everyone puts into the league means we now have 3 full teams:
The Canny Belters – Our ‘A’ team and WFTDA roster
The Whippin’ Hinnies – Our ‘B’ team
The North Cs – Our ‘C’ team
Our first bout was Hadrian’s Brawl on 11 April 2010, a real baptism of fire against the Auld Reekie Roller Girls‘ B team. 5th March 2011 saw our first ever home bout, Flog on the Tyne, against Aberdeen’s Granite City Roller Girls at The Lightfoot Centre in Walker, Newcastle. Final score: 113 – 63 We did a win! We are also guilty of introducing the phrase ‘do a win’ to the UK roller derby scene, our head coach Lone Danger coined the grammatically incorrect saying after our first win away against the Dolly Rockit Rollers in September 2010. Sorry, grammar fans!
Newcastle upon Tyne also has a men’s roller derby team, Tyne and Fear, and a junior league, for under-18s.
https://scottishrollerderby.wordpress.com:
Vagine Regime UK launched in 2012 and forms a fully inclusive travel team of LGBTQ derby individuals! Spawning from the original Vagine Regime of the USA (formed in 2008), this community is a tag team of queer skaters from leagues all across the UK promoting queer visibility within out sport.
Named CollectionNMRD @ Glasgow Women's Library
Object TypeProgramme
Object numberGWL-2018-60-33
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved