Creating Space for Queer Kids & Queer Parents

Since the spring of this year, I’ve been part of a small group of people who organize a queer storytime at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY. As someone who doesn’t anticipate having my own children but enjoys being around kids now and again, it has been a really fun space to be part of. And as someone who is deeply aware of the need for queer community spaces, particularly for female and trans-identified people, it’s been really great to help create a space where parents can connect.

If this sounds appealing to you at all, feel free to join our Facebook group, or keep an eye out on the Lesbian Herstory Archives event listing or website – we do it once a month on a Saturday morning and everyone is welcome, no matter how you or your kids identify.

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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