#lesbian-history

#lesbian-history

We felt this was a timely exhibition because we are once again living in a moment when queer and lesbian communities are being asked to survive systems that were not built for us. These histories are not just stories from the past. They are blueprints for how we build, care for one another, and sustain our institutions now.

'Rebel Dykes' is a retrospective term to describe a raucous, unapologetic community of activist, sex-positive lesbians who lived on the very fringes of society in 1980s London - many of them squatting in areas such as Brixton and Peckham - and who ran riot through both the decade and city. The group's origins can be traced back to the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp of the early 1980s, which itself was a liberating feminist space and a place to explore sapphic sexuality.