Documentation of Reanimating Data workshops with Hideaway youth club girls' group in Manchester.

In 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives' (RAD). Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). Each reanimation involved a collaboration between young women, educators and researchers and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and bring it to life in new ways. This item contains documentation of sessions with Hideaway youth club in Manchester, run by Ali Ronan with textile artist Seleena Laverne Daye. During the sessions Ali and Saleena worked with young women and youth workers to explore extracts from the WRAP interviews and use these as the basis for having conversations about a range of topics including race, sexuality, gender, sex education, sexual learning, bullying, periods, school, family and other relationships. The group worked with felt to make portraits to capture ideas about being a young woman and their identities. This item includes: - Reflective notes on the youth work sessions, activities and planning by Ali Ronan and RAD researcher Ester McGeeney. - Examples of the felt images created by young women.