Artist Alok Vaid-Menon on Learning to Love Who They Are | Seen | NowThis

'When we actually love ourselves, we get punished for it.' Alok Vaid-Menon is using poetry and performance art to let other trans youth know they don't have to struggle alone.

Alok Vaid-Menon is a gender nonconforming, trans poet and performance artist fighting for queer representation. Alok Vaid-Menon wants to help all queer, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and transgender people, and says LGBT rights, trans rights, and queer and LGBTQ representation aren't just good for the LGBT and trans communities — Alok Vaid-Menon says it's largely about mental health.

Alok Vaid-Menon, who is known for their art and activist collaboration DarkMatter, isn't afraid anymore to show their transfeminism to the world. They say they're simply Alok. Performance art helps Alok Vaid-Menon show the world who they are: Alok Vaid-Menon. Poetry is also part of Alok Vaid-Menon's performance art and was part of their Dark Matter project.

Alok Vaid-Menon interview touches on mental health, queer representation, and celebrating yourself.

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[kaholee]

"I grew up in one of the most conservative area of the world." Said the person born in USA

[thenotoriousgigachad]

“There are no Princesses, little girls are also kinky! Your kids aren’t as straight and narrow as you think!”- Alok Vaid Menon

[letBIGGIErest]

criticism isn't hatred. part of living in a free society is dealing with free speech, and learning how to take criticism. just cause someone criticizes your lifestyle doesn't make you a victim.

[idkidc]

He called little girls kinky, gross guy

[richalderson]

He's just a self-absorbed queen in colorful outfits, not trans at all.

[norcaldeemichaels]

“The supposed “purity “ of abuse victims has remained stagnant. There are no princesses. Little girls are also Kinky. Your kids aren’t as straight and narrow as you think” Alok in his own words on his own Twitter.

[eliyahu]

Does being gender non conforming mean you have to dress like a clown?

[chrissyl]

You're not trans. Like this is pretty offensive to actual trans people.

[rachell]

When you mock and use a niche of people’s identities as commodity

[JamesK]

Who’s here because of Blaire White 🙋‍♂️

[MaleOrderBride]

This guy is very disingenuous.
He comes from a super-wealthy family and was Ivy League educated. He never acknowledges his wealth privilege. How do you think he affords all those fancy outfits. He is not wearing cheap stuff. He is a Trust Fund Baby living off his parents wealth...and yet he is lecturing us poor plebs to "do better"?

[richalderson]

You REALLY have to wonder if these people are trolls without even knowing they are.

[emgoodluck]

Jesus this man just wants to feel special and have attention. I’d imagine trans people find this so annoying that someone who just puts on a dress says they have the same struggles

[meatmachine]

I thought the whole purpose of dressing up as a clown was to get people to laugh at you... I'm confused.

[emgoodluck]

At the end of the day you can wear what you want but it doesn’t make you special or less privileged because people find your clown outfits unusual

[hybriddude]

“I’m a trans clown, my pronouns are they, them, zey zem. I’m also like a coconut, brown, rough, and hairy on the outside, white on the inside. I’m also just taking advantage of the system because it benefits me this way.”

[Poeeeluvschai]

Stop speaking for trans people when you’re not trans. When you haven’t had the surgery’s. The therapies. And the hormones.

[getthekool]

This guy does not look feminine. He is not a trans either. He is a men wich like to get dressed like a woman, but in a theatrical way.

[leafbullis]

What a beautiful and radiant soul. Alok is an inspiration to me and non-binary people everywhere.

[emgoodluck]

I feel like this is what happens when we live where we do and are so lucky, people are trying to create struggles to make themselves feel special. Who cares if you wanna wear a dress ? No one hun no one