Truckers

Lucille Power
February 2008-May 2009

Lucille Power created a compensatory space which nurtured a small group to come to terms with their ‘inner trucker’. She worked with a small group of Queer and Transgender women and men to playfully experiment with transgender roleplay including character development, costume and makeup. Her emphasis was on an open skill share platform with no allocated expert; the participants shared knowledge and experience and together researched the themes and process.

The group developed characters which playfully addressed and subverted some of their negative experiences of homophobia, sexism, racism and violence into characters they could put on and take off with the costumes, and they undertook several outings around London including bowling in character and greasy spoon cafe lunches.

Playing in the margins of the queer and adult play world, Truckers presented a momentary uprising at Duckie’s Gay Shame in July and worked with LCC photography student Cleo Lang to produce a series of photographs at ‘Bar Wotever’.