Alok Vaid-Menon

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| picture=Alok Vaid-Menon Fashion Collection 2018.jpg
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| date_birth=July 1, 1991
| place_birth=Texas, USA
| nationality=American
| pronouns=[[they/them]]
| gender=[[genderfluid]]/[[nonbinary]]/[[transfeminine]]
| occupation=writer, activist, fashionist@, performance artist
| known_for=
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'''Alok Vaid-Menon''' (born July 1, 1991), sometimes known mononymously as '''ALOK''', is an Indian-American (born in Texas<ref name="Sharma">{{Cite web |title=ALOK: 'Beauty Is About Looking Like Yourself' |last=Sharma |first=Jeena |work=PAPER |date=1 March 2019 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://www.papermag.com/alok-beauty-2629993229.html?rebelltitem=25#rebelltitem25?rebelltitem=25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129180742/https://www.papermag.com/alok-beauty-2629993229.html?rebelltitem=25 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>) writer, activist, "fashionist@", and performance artist. They are [[genderfluid]]<ref name="Alok-insta">[https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/ Instagram bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230613171530/https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and [[gender nonconforming]]<ref name="dund_Alok">{{Cite web |title=Alok Vaid-Menon |last=Dundore |first=Brent |work=[[They/Them Project]] |date=17 December 2018 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url=https://dundorephoto.com/they-them-project-alok-vaid-menon/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724224954/https://dundorephoto.com/they-them-project-alok-vaid-menon/ |archive-date=24 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> and use [[singular they]] pronouns. They also identify as [[queer]], [[trans]], [[transfeminine]], and [[nonbinary]].<ref name="notes">{{Cite web |title=Notes on my ever evolving relationship with gender |author=ALOK |work= |date=24 November 2019 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2019/11/24/notes-on-my-ever-evolving-relationship-with-gender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025092722/http://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2019/11/24/notes-on-my-ever-evolving-relationship-with-gender |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Books==
*''Beyond the Gender Binary''
*''Femme in Public''
*Your Wound, My Garden

==Quotes==
"There are infinite non-binary genders, we are not merely some third option for leftovers."<ref name="notes" />

"All people deserve bodily autonomy, including the right to name their own identities, bodies, and experiences. There is a double standard operating that needs to be named: when people with power call for recognition it’s not seen as political correctness, it's seen as a logical demand. When those of us without power call for it, it’s seen as us being overly-sensitive & distracting from the greater cause."<ref name="alok_onge">{{Cite web |title=on gender inclusive language |author=ALOK |work= |date=5 July 2019 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2019/7/5/on-gender-inclusive-language|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529140001/https://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2019/7/5/on-gender-inclusive-language |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

"trans people do not have *preferred* [[pronouns]] as if our genders are some sort of opinion up for debate. we have pronouns. that's a fact. so misgendering us isn't about being insensitive, it's about being incorrect."<ref name="alok_Pron">{{Cite web |title=Pronouns Aren't Preferred |author=ALOK |work= |date=14 July 2017 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2017/7/14/pronouns-arent-preferred|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520064906/https://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2017/7/14/pronouns-arent-preferred |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alok_Vaid-Menon Wikipedia page]
*[https://www.alokvmenon.com/ Website]
*[https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/ Instagram]

==References==
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