Alok Vaid-Menon (iel) est artiste-performeureuse reconnu.e.x. à l’internationale et dont le travail explore des thématiques comme le trauma, l’appartenance et la condition humaine. En 2021, iel figure en tête d’affiche au New York Comedy Festival puis au Just for Laughs Festival à Vancouver en 2022. Iel est auteuricex de Beyond the Gender Binary (2020) ainsi que de deux recueils de poésie, Femme in Public (2017) and Your Wound / My Garden (2021). Au petit écran, iel sera prochainement dans le long-metrage Netflix/Blumhouse, ABSOLUTE DOMINION. Iel a également participer à la docu-série Netflix Getting Curious avec Jonathan Van Ness, la série HBO Random Acts of Flyness ainsi que dans le documentaire The Trans List.

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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 and in 2022 they will be headlining the Just for Laughs Festival in Vancouver. They are the author of Beyond the Gender Binary (2020) which has been described as a “clarion call for a new approach to gender in the 21st century” and the 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.