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Alok has faced criticism because of the following excerpt from a post they had made on the Facebook page of DarkMatter (an art and activist collaboration with Janani Balasubramanian): [1]
These days the narrative is that freaky transgender people (or as they say "crossdressers") will come into your bathrooms and abuse innocent little girls.
This type of legal/carceral culture relies on is two things: the construction of morally abhorrent perpetrators/scapegoats AND the production of pure, innocent victims. In this case, as in so many cases in the past, those victims are archetypical (white)(cis) innocent little girls. We totally need to challenge the white Christian supremacist, right-wing rhetoric around trans bodies, absolutely. But we also need to seriously need to overhaul the idea that there is a perfect victim anywhere.
I believe in the radical notion that little girls, like the rest of us, are complicated people. There are no fairy tales and no princesses here. Little girls are also queer, trans, kinky, deviant, kind, mean, beautiful, ugly, tremendous, and peculiar. Your kids aren't as straight and narrow as you think they are. Like everybody else. I've been a cute little girl. And a gender nonconforming young adult. Let me tell you, everywhere along that spectrum, I've been complicated and strange.
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Under "Publications" can you please add Alok's most recent self-published book:
Your Wound, My Garden (2021)
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/style/alok-vaid-menon-artist-nonbinary-poet-activist.html
Tamieparkersong ( talk) 15:32, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
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Unless written by or quoted from Alok Vaud-Menon, please remove the word ‘perceived’ from the following: “Their artistry responds to perceived violence against trans and gender non-conforming people, calling for freedom from constraining gender norms.”
Thank you. 2001:569:5815:7500:54B7:91C:251D:4AE ( talk) 13:20, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
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It is not true and violates the guidelines of wikipedia to state the following:
"Growing up, Alok was bullied for their race and gender expression.[8]"
if you go to the link, no where in the line does it say bullying took place. If this is not removed as well as other incorrect statements, this will be reported to Wikipedia to censor the author. Rikochetrt ( talk) 04:44, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Some of my earliest memories were my classmates commenting on how strange/wrong/ugly/smelly my people were. We’re talking at four years old being told: ‘Why don’t you wash your body, so that brown dirt can come off?’
Rather than being a site of refuge and comfort, the Indian community became one of the fiercest spaces of gender policing. As a response to racism my community responded with heteronormativity – ‘maybe if we don’t look or act different they will leave us alone.’
The article goes back and forth between referencing the subject as "Vaid-Menon" and "Alok". Aside from the initial full name listing, as well as the mention of how their first name is stylized, shouldn't all other references should be to "Vaid-Menon"? 2603:8001:2A00:7428:B8BC:5BD3:A724:EEAA ( talk) 02:20, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
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Alok states in Season 3, Episode 2 of Finding Our Way podcast by Prentis Hemphill that they would like to be referred to as "Alok and their friends are becoming" in reference to writings about Alok on Wikipedia. They do not desire to be referred to as "Alok is" as they describe that they are because of their friends. Steffenmichelle76 ( talk) 18:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
I've been trying to check the Stanford reference that says "Alok attended Stanford University where they graduated with a BA in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies", but it just links to the The Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (or "FGSS") at Stanford, but doesn't say whether the degree was a major, minor etc. The actual BA isn't described in the bio. I've tried searching on Google, but just go around in circles. Anyone seen a precise reference, maybe in an interview or something? Seaweed ( talk) 18:11, 24 March 2024 (UTC)