ALOK Vaid-Menon
“I wanted to show how non-white people have always been a part of this country.”
BIO
ALOK (they/them) is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist. Their eclectic style and poetic challenge to the gender binary is internationally renowned. “People are okay with gender non-conforming people as long as we are entertaining them. The problem comes when we assert ourselves beyond our entertainment value, as full human beings.”
OWN WORDS
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