Alexis Clements

Alexis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her feature-length documentary film, All We've Got, which focuses on LGBTQ women's spaces at a time when many are closing, premiered in October 2019 at NewFest. In 2021, she launched a podcast, The Answer is No, focused on artists sharing stories about challenging the conditions under which they are asked to work. Her creative work has been published and produced in a number of venues in the US and Europe. She co-edited the two-volume anthology of plays, Out of Time & Place, which includes her performance work, Conversation.

In addition to her creative work, her nonfiction writing and filmmaking primarily focuses on the arts, the arts economy as experienced by artists, the intersections of arts, culture, and social justice work, as well as LGBTQ arts and culture. A regular contributor to Hyperallergic, her writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others. She has appeared on media outlets ranging from NY1 to WNYC to Gay USA to Oregon Public Broadcasting’s radio program Think Out Loud, and been quoted in outlets such as Forbes, HuffPost, Slate, and Marketplace.

Alexis has a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. from Emerson College. She is currently serving on the Coordinating Committee of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.