Alok Vaid-Menon

Mixed-Media Artist
February 15, 2021 - 6:00pm
A Conversation with Alok Vaid-Menon

Pre-registration is required for this event. You will receive an email confirmation with the virtual event details after registering.  

Co-sponsored by the South Asian Youth Initiative

About Alok Vaid-Menon

Alok (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed gender non-conforming writer, performer, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist Alok’s work explore themes of eugenics, trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017) and Beyond the Gender Binary (2020). In 2019 they launched #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries. They have been honored as one of NBC’s Pride 50, Out Magazine’s OUT 100, and Business Insider’s 25 Doers. They are currently an artist in residence at the Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff-Stiftung Foundation Center for Literature.

For more information about their new book, Beyond the Gender Binary, please visit:

https://alokvmenon.myshopify.com/products/beyond-the-gender-binary-book