Rebel Dykes

classified 18
Film

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2021

Director
Harri Shanahan, Siân A. Williams
Details
82 mins, 2021, UK
Primary language
English

A rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London, bringing to light the unheard stories of a community of dykes who met doing art, music, politics and sex and how they went on to change their world in all its ass-kicking, leather-wearing glory.

The film follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on to become artists, performers, musicians and activists in London. A heady mash-up of animation, archive footage and interviews tells the story of a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, anti-Thatcher rallies, protests demanding action around AIDS and the fierce ties of chosen family.

This is an extraordinarily privileged glimpse into a bygone world, an important and often forgotten part of British queer cultural and political history, by those who not only lived out their politics with heartfelt conviction but lived to tell the tale.

Presented in partnership with Queer Vision.


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