Audre Lorde & Adrienne Rich Marathon Reading

Along with Shawn Smith and Flavia Rando, I’m helping to organize a marathon reading of writing by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. It’s going to take place on November 17, 2012 (the 40th anniversary of Lorde’s passing), at the Archives in Brooklyn, NY, from 12noon to 12midnight.

We’ve already had a wonderful response and a whole range of different organizations are taking part, from the Astraea Foundation to bklyn boihood to Belladonna.

I’m really excited to be part of putting this event together and really looking forward to the chance to spend a day sinking into the work of these two remarkable women.

Get the full details here.

In addition, the Archives is running a fundraising campaign in tandem with the event. If you can, please give to this important and extremely unique organization, dedicated to preserving the stories of women who often remain hidden to history. Donate here.

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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