News & Events

Launch Event for Sinister Wisdom 101: Variations

Launch Event for Sinister Wisdom 101: Variations

Very excited to announce that the volume of Sinister Wisdom that I was asked to guest edit landed in mailboxes in July. The journal also celebrates 40 years of publishing in July! Read journal editor Julie Enszer’s essay about the issue here. To celebrate the launch, I’m organizing an event – details below.

Cover art for the volume is by Clarity Haynes.

Dixon Place Presents
Launch Event for Sinister Wisdom 101 – Variations
Facebook Event Page

Date & Time: Monday, August 8, 2016 at 7.30pm

Location: Lounge at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002

Featuring Selected Writers & Artists from the Volume:
Alexis Clements
Susana Cook
Alexis Danzig
Leah Gilliam
Clarity Haynes
Damien Luxe
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz
Sara Jane Stoner
Stacy Szymaszek

Other writers in the volume include:
Elvis B, Trish Salah, Fran Winant, Dale Wolf, Ariel “Speedwagon” Federow, Imani Sims, Merril Mushroom, Erica Cardwell, Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective, Rae Theodore, Barbara Ruth, and Liena Vayzman.

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.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *