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The Answer is No (podcast)

The Answer is No (podcast)

After years of writing and giving workshops on arts and money and labor issues, I wanted to spend time talking with other people to see how they handle the challenges of being an artist today. So, along with my co-producer Ali Cotterill, I launched a new podcast called The Answer is No.

The podcast features intimate conversations with artists about the times they’ve said no to bad gigs and deals. The point isn’t just to get the dirt on the crazy things people ask artists to do, it’s also a humble attempt at mutual aid through storytelling, because we have to say no to the bad gigs in order to build a better field for everyone.

Artists included in the first first season are: Becca Blackwell, Yanira Castro, Ali Cotterill, Lola Flash, Fields Harrington, Josué Rivas, and Lise Soskolne.

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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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