Alok Vaid-Menon: A Lighthouse special

Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.
In 2021 they headlined the New York Comedy Festival , they recently be headlined the Just for Laughs Festival in Vancouver, had a sold out run at the Soho Theatre in London in July and are performing a spectacular run currently at Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival. (just a few tickets left for that!)
Their book Beyond the Gender Binary is a Lighthouse staple and a bookseller favourite that has been described as a “clarion call for a new approach to gender in the 21st century”. They are also author of two poetry books Femme in Public (2017) and Your Wound / My Garden (2021).
On screen, they will next shoot the Netflix/Blumhouse feature film ABSOLUTE DOMINION. They have also appeared in the Netflix docu-series Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s late-night sketch series Random Acts of Flyness and the documentary The Trans List.
Jess Brough is a writer, a psycholinguistics PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and the founder of Fringe of Colour - an Edinburgh-based multi-award-winning arts initiative for Black people and People of Colour. Jess has written for gal-dem and The Skinny, and has been published with an essay in The Bi-Bible: New Testimonials and a short story in Scottish literary magazine Extra Teeth and The Best of British Fantasy 2019 anthology.
Twitter: @Jessica_Brough | @FringeofColour Instagram: @jessbrough | @fringeofcolour Website: www.fringeofcolour.co.uk

[@NzalaBantu_Nut]

I just recently came across Alok’s teachings and I have to say everytime I watch them I get goosebumps 🥹👏🏾🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦

[@Vanamari]

I love Alok, thank you for sharing their insight. "I can't control other people's perception of me. What I can control is the cultivation of my joy."

[@DIJONh100]

Alok is such a unique person with such an interesting mind! Thank you for trying to help everyone find divinity in themselves. You're such an inspiration!

[@Letters2indigo]

I fucking love you all thank you so much for being on Earth

[@neemasphere]

Alok 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@kriskabin]

Wonderful! 👏👍✊️👏🎉🩷

[@GwenisImmune]

I really loved listening to this.

[@javawatson1350]

Incredible ❤