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As a queer-identified, black woman, Lea Robinson has lived her life in constant search of community. She spent twelve years navigating gender and race in women's collegiate athletics as a coach and an administrator. As a student-athlete, she enjoyed a successful career as a four-year letter winner at Western Kentucky University and played in the 1991-1992 NCAA Final Four. She remembers lesbian packed gymnasiums during coming out week, yet no acknowledgement of the support that queer women provide for women's athletics. Along with her work as a queer ally for college student athletes, she explores how fear of female masculinity and body image issues manifest themselves through eating disorders and homophobia. She continues to serve on panels and encourage dialogue surrounding homophobia in sports while working with It Takes a Team! (Womens' Sports Foundation Educational Programs) and The National Center for Lesbian Rights. Her performance work and writing examines intersections between and among race, gender identity, and sexuality. She was recently published in Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces.
As a queer-identified, white woman, Elizabeth Whitney recognizes and challenges the privilege of not having to talk about race. Her primary interest is in performance as activism, and she is currently writing about DIY aesthetics and queer and feminist performance communities. Her recent publications have appeared in the journals Text and Performance Quarterly and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and the anthology Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts (NY: Peter Lang, 2005). Her own solo performance work has been seen at venues throughout the U.S. and Canada, including The Hysteria Women's Festival (Toronto), Mae West Fest (Seattle), PS 122 & HERE (NYC), DramaRama Performance Festival (New Orleans), Single File Chicago Performance Festival, Bailiwick Repertory (Chicago), and the Mae West Fest (Seattle), and has been awarded 2006 & 2005 Lesbian Theatre Awards from Curve Magazine and Best Solo Performance at the 2006 & 2004 Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festivals. She is affiliated with the Fund for Women Artists, International Center for Women Playwrights, the National Communication Association, and Underscore Virtual Performance Collective, and is a Scholar in Residence in the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston. See www.elizabethwhitney.com for more information.
Lea Robinson and Elizabeth Whitney are partners in life and crime, and their cumulative performance experiences span the North American continent. Together they have brainstormed pioneering performances of gender and politics, such as the butch/femme country-western drag act, "Sissy & Cocoa Chaps: The Urban Cowdykes," and Bitches With Barrettes, another insightful attempt to critique gender identity. They live in Boston, MA with a tribe of six lovely cats and one excessively spoiled dog.
As a queer-identified, white woman, Elizabeth Whitney recognizes and challenges the privilege of not having to talk about race. Her primary interest is in performance as activism, and she is currently writing about DIY aesthetics and queer and feminist performance communities. Her recent publications have appeared in the journals Text and Performance Quarterly and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and the anthology Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts (NY: Peter Lang, 2005). Her own solo performance work has been seen at venues throughout the U.S. and Canada, including The Hysteria Women's Festival (Toronto), Mae West Fest (Seattle), PS 122 & HERE (NYC), DramaRama Performance Festival (New Orleans), Single File Chicago Performance Festival, Bailiwick Repertory (Chicago), and the Mae West Fest (Seattle), and has been awarded 2006 & 2005 Lesbian Theatre Awards from Curve Magazine and Best Solo Performance at the 2006 & 2004 Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festivals. She is affiliated with the Fund for Women Artists, International Center for Women Playwrights, the National Communication Association, and Underscore Virtual Performance Collective, and is a Scholar in Residence in the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston. See www.elizabethwhitney.com for more information.
Lea Robinson and Elizabeth Whitney are partners in life and crime, and their cumulative performance experiences span the North American continent. Together they have brainstormed pioneering performances of gender and politics, such as the butch/femme country-western drag act, "Sissy & Cocoa Chaps: The Urban Cowdykes," and Bitches With Barrettes, another insightful attempt to critique gender identity. They live in Boston, MA with a tribe of six lovely cats and one excessively spoiled dog.
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