ALOK | Call Me They | Talks at Google
0ALOK discusses their journey, career and LGBTQIA+ empowerment.
ALOK is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist who was recently featured in HuffPost's Culture Shifters '21 list. Their distinctive style and poetic challenge to the gender binary has been internationally renowned. As a mixed-media artist ALOK uses poetry, prose, comedy, performance, design, and portraiture to explore themes of eugenics, trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public and Beyond the Gender Binary. In 2019, they were honored as one of NBC’s Pride 50 and Out Magazine’s OUT 100. They are currently an artist in residence at the Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff-Stiftung Foundation Center for Literature.
Moderated by Naomi De Ocampo.