Through writing, performance art, event curation, and public speaking, Alok Vaid-Menon advocates for transgender and gender-conforming communities. Pride50
Alamin Yohannes"When I’m doing my performance art, I am using my body as a way to communicate meaning, and that's what I did in order to survive growing up in Texas, because it would have been potentially lethal for people to know my gender,” they told NBC News."I think that that's why I always say that trans people are such great artists, because we've had to watch and witness the world with the type of delicacy that a lot of other people haven’t.
Vaid-Menon does this through their writing, performance art, event curation and public speaking. After publishing a poetry book about the queer experience, titled “FEMME IN PUBLIC,” in 2017, Vaid-Menon used their platform as a launching pad.While Vaid-Menon has gone around the world speaking about their experiences and the issues facing trans and gender-nonconforming people, their craft has also evolved as a result.
“I think oftentimes when people think about safety they just think about the positive energy that we're bringing into the space. But, also, I understand safety is also a space for our politics and for our analysis, because so often the way that trans people are accepted in a space is if we keep quiet. I often say they're more comfortable with us lip-syncing than they are with us speaking.”
Fans of “FEMME IN PUBLIC” can expect more from Vaid-Menon. The writer has just finished another book, which will be out next year, and they are working on a third this summer.
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