So much of the mainstream political discussion about transgender and gender-nonconforming identity is rooted in conflict. Rights denied; rights demanded. The activist, writer and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon acknowledges those fundamental, often violent clashes but comes at them from a place of peace and compassion. Read the Article

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2019年1月1日 · by ALOK 1) ambition beyond recognition. defy easily consumable narratives, be gnarly & ruthlessly indigestible. 2) boundaries are not borders. protect your energy from those who live for you but would never die for you.

2016年8月16日 · by ALOK. Narratives of "transition" always feel hard for me. It's not as if I was once one gender and have now become another. It's not as if my identity, my personhood has ever been defined solely by gender. Rather, it's that I (and by the way I think you, too) am in a constant state of transformation and gender is just part of that. The ...

2018年1月3日 · by ALOK. i am constantly devastated by a world where the things that are most dear and important to us are the things we cannot talk about in public, where healing isn’t something we have space to do collectively, where people care more about our personal brands than our real lives! i always forget to drink enough water and take my vitamins ...

2017年7月13日 · by ALOK. Originally written on Trans Day of Visibility 2015 1) “Trans” “Visibility” is an oxymoron. Trans is who we are, not what we we look like. We shouldn’t have to look like anything in particular in order to be believed for who we are. Visibility often is a form of (nonconsensual) labor that we have to in order to make our ...

2019年7月4日 · by ALOK. 6/30/19 on my way home after a pride party i stopped to pick up some fruit for a midnight snack. i was wearing makeup + a dress, but that should be irrelevant to this story or any story about gender based violence. it’s not about what we wear, it’s about what they do. why is the focus always on our appearance, never their hands? i ...

2017年7月16日 · by ALOK. navigating the world as a gender non-conforming transfeminine person of color teaches you that this world has been primed to hate you, be disgusted by you, & reject you. it is to experience the antithesis of desire. we have to carry the shame of our racial communities, the shame of cisgender gays, lesbians, & bisexuals, & the shame of ...