ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the authors’ collaborative experiment in wayfinding across the disciplines of sociology, gender and women’s studies, computer science, and theatre. Nicole is a black, female-identified sociologist and Lisa is a white, female-identified theatre artist. While exploring ensemble theatre work using a black feminist methodology, we found ourselves connecting as symbiotic wayfarers. The main tenets of black feminism that ground this work include the basic premise that if we all are not free, none of us are free (Smith, 1978; hooks, 2000). Our guiding theoretical framework also acknowledges that black women at the intersections of race and gender have a unique standpoint with which to understand and interrogate oppressive systems (Crenshaw, 1989; Collins, 2000).
