Alexis – Alexis Clements

Post-Pride Thoughts After Listening to Yet Another Aggravating Radio Interview, or It Was Never About Love

I like to listen to the radio while I make my breakfast. The news these days makes it a potentially enraging or deeply saddening activity. But one morning this past June, I found myself gettingContinue reading

Walking

Displacement is becoming the new human condition. Walking to a new unknown fate is the seeming story that will never stop repeating – an age-old story, but one that we can’t seem to learn from.

Bits & Pieces, 24 Dec 2021

Trying out this new format. Just a way of getting a few thoughts down, mainly for my own record, but also on the off chance someone wants to engage on one of these topics. – Attended a virtual memorial forContinue reading

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-producerContinue reading

All We’ve Got

Why Many people, myself included, have spent at least some part of their life searching for a sense of community, a sense of belonging. It’s a tough thing to come by for many, if it exists at all. And whenContinue reading

My Film, All We’ve Got, is Finished

I’m thrilled to share the news that my first documentary film, All We’ve Got, is now complete! This feature-length film is a personal exploration of LGBTQ women’s communities, cultures, and social justice work through the lens of the spaces theyContinue reading

World Premiere of UNKNOWN Announced

I’m thrilled to announce that my play, Unknown, inspired by the Lesbian Herstory Archives will receive its world premiere with the 20% Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Working on this play and thinking about ways of bringing it out into theContinue reading

Hyperallergic

In 2012, I started writing for Hyperallergic, which described itself then as an online “forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art in the world today.”

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 beingContinue reading

Unknown

How is it that we come to know someone? Particularly someone we’ve never met in person, or only interacted with occasionally and in a certain setting. Think of that strange feeling you may have had as a child when you saw one of your teachers out in the world doing normal un-teacherly things. In this play I’m asking questions about how we come to know a person as something more than the role they play in our lives or the definition we have in our heads for them.