Thoughts

Previous Thoughts #2

A Tribute to the Royer Family

The Royer family is not my own, and the family pictured above is the not the Royer family of which I speak. However, I’d just like to extend this tribute on behalf of Royers everywhere and all the families that belong to them.

The van is producing avocados. J suggests we not eat them. “It scares me!” he says, “where are they coming from!” I am excited. Our van is pregnant with avocados…
—Beth Royer, U.S. poet, gardener, and pet lover, excerpted from her website, not from her excellent book.

The above image was found 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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