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Queer Memoir: NERD (Yes, I am a nerd.)

I’m going to be one of the people sharing stories at the next Queer Memoir event on October 6 at 8pm. The event takes place at the headquarters for Queers for Economic Justice in Chelsea (147 W. 24th St., 4th Floor, New York, New York). The theme for the evening is, nerd. Plus, there are some pretty awesome people who will also be sharing that night: Calvin S. Cato, Laura Duncan, Kelli Dunham (co-founder of Queer Memoir), M. Taueret Davis, Everett Maroon, and Genne Murphy (co-founder of Queer Memoir).

There are so many ways to interpret that word, nerd… I’ve known many in my day, and I seem to have been one myself since about birth. I’m not exactly sure yet what story I will tell, but from my experience as an audience member at one of these events a couple of months ago, they’re very warm, friendly, and welcoming.

So, please come along if you can.

Click here to view the web page for the event.

Click here to view the event on Facebook.

And feel free to send me unsolicited anecdotes of my nerd-ly behavior (past and present)…

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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