Alok Vaid-Menon

Alok Vaid-Menon
Alok Vaid-Menon (left) and Janani Balasubramanian, from the Duo Dark Matter, in 2015.
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupation performance artist, activist, poet
Known for LGBTQ rights advocacy
Home town College Station, Texas
Website www.alokvmenon.com

Alok Vaid-Menon is an American performance artist, poet, and LGBTQ rights activist. Vaid-Menon identifies as gender non-conforming and transfeminine and uses singular they pronouns.[1][2]

Vaid-Menon is from an Indian American family and was raised Hindu, growing up in College Station, Texas.[3] They went to Stanford University.[2] In 2015 Vaid-Menon co-created Dark Matter, a trans South Asian performance art duo, with Janani Balasubramanian.[4][5][6] They were featured in the 2016 documentary The Trans List. In 2017 Vaid-Menon released FEMME IN PUBLIC, a book of poems regarding queer experiences.[7][8] Their aunt, Urvashi Vaid, is an Indian-American LGBT rights activist. Vaid-Menon is lactose intolerant.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Vaid-Menon, Alok (13 October 2015). "Greater transgender visibility hasn't helped nonbinary people – like me - Alok Vaid-Menon". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 Abeni, Cleis (11 March 2016). "These Trans Performance Artists Are Here to Say 'It Gets Bitter'". The Advocate. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Pain & Empowerment of Choosing Your Own Gender: Alok Vaid-Menon". StyleLikeU. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2017 – via YouTube.
  4. ↑ Nichols, JamesMichael (29 March 2015). "ASSEMBLAGE: Meet Queer Performance Artists Dark Matter". Huffington Post. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "New year, new beginnings". www.darkmatterpoetry.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Lamphier, Jason (17 May 2016). "Artists of DarkMatter: 'Let's Challenge the Standards of Trans Visibility'". Out. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Femme in Public Poetry Chapbook (Physical Copy)". Alok Vaid-Menon. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  8. ↑ Moran, Justin (13 March 2017). "Daily Crush: Alok Vaid-Menon's 'Femme in Public' Poetry Book". Out. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  9. ↑ Jóns, Ragna Rök (19 May 2014). "Interview with Darkmatter". Bluestockings Magazine. Retrieved 28 October 2017.



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