Thoughts

Previous Thought #3

I had this on the front of my web pages, some years ago. I love that image, and I love the sentiment in so many ways, so I decided to revisit this thought upon launching my new website, as I like linking it to those that came before.

We should meet each morning, as from foreign countries, and spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Manners,” Essays, Second Series (1844)

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By Alexis

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work has been published, produced, and screened in venues across the US, Europe, and South America. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered in the fall of 2019 in New York City and has since screened around the US and internationally. Her play Unknown also premiered in October 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other plays of hers have been produced, published, and anthologized across the US and the UK over the past two decades. Her prose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. In addition to her writing and filmmaking, she is currently serving on the Executive Board of CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a co-founder of Little Rainbows, a queer story time for children and their caretakers.

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