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Diversity and inclusivity are not just industry buzzwords. In a rousing talk, performance artist and designer Alok V Menon argues that the fashion and beauty

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22 November 2019. OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom — When Alok Menon was asked to be on the cover of a magazine a few years ago, the poet and performance artist was excited to showcase their eccentric style: six-inch heels and a dress "that would make even the most gnarly substitute teacher in town blush.". The author has shared a YouTube video.

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December 5, 2019. Diversity and inclusivity are not just industry buzzwords. In a rousing talk, performance artist and designer Alok V Menon argues that the fashion and beauty industries need to 'de-gender' fashion to better celebrate trans and nonbinary people, suggesting solutions such as ending gendered fashion weeks or actively promoting trans and nonbinary people to leadership positions.

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Alok Vaid-Menon will appear at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney on Sunday, September 18. They will also perform their poetry-comedy show in Australia and New Zealand this month

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During VOICES 2019, performance artist and designer Alok Vaid-Menon urged the fashion industry to 'de-gender' itself and reframe its definition of beauty. At this year's edition of VOICES, BoF's first physical gathering since the start of the pandemic, Vaid-Menon sat down with Harris Reed, a recent Central Saint Martins graduate who has

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the future of fashion is genderless, but SO IS THE PRESENT! it's not a question of IF we will get erased, but rather WHEN. trans people / queer people / gender non-conforming people / people of color / people with disabilities / fat folks have been challenging gender fashion norms since the beginning. we have long experienced backlash for existing in public beyond gender norms — and our

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At VOICES 2019, performance artist and designer Alok Vaid-Menon lifted the lid on fashion's 'regressive' gender stereotypes and urged the industry to 'de-gender' and redefine the meaning of beauty. 31 January 2020. News & Analysis ... Why Genderless Fashion Is the Future.

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Alok Vaid-Menon (born July 1, 1991, stylized ALOK) is an American writer, ... In "Fashion's Genderless Future", Vaid-Menon examines what needs to be done to normalize respect for non-binary and LGBTQ+ fashion and "degender the fashion community" (Menon, M.10:00 min),

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At VOICES 2019, performance artist and designer Alok Vaid-Menon lifted the lid on fashion's 'regressive' gender stereotypes and urged the industry to 'de-gender' and redefine the meaning of beauty. To watch Alok's talk at VOICES 2019 on our YouTube channel click here. Sign up for BoF's Daily Diges

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Years later in my speech I write: "I believe fashion should be a celebration of beauty. I believe that the gender binary is an obstacle to beauty. It limits our self expression and confines our aesthetic imagination. Clothes should mean what we want them to mean, not the other way around."

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November 25, 2019. often people mistake our calls for "degendering" to be equivalent to erasing their right to be men + women. gender neutrality is not the same thing as requiring everyone to be non-binary. gender neutrality is an inclusive frame for all genders (men + women, too). this is not about erasure, it's about entitlement. cis

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At this year's edition of VOICES, performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon sat down with Harris Reed, a recent Central Saint Martins graduate who has emerged as on

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That there is profundity in our panache, dignity in our delight, and beauty in our banana print! ALOK is a gender-nonconforming writer, performance artist, and fashionist@ with a lot of feelings. ALOK's new fashion collection is bright, beautiful, and everything our nonbinary hearts desire.

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The Business of Fashion Podcast Jan 31 2020 • 16 mins At VOICES 2019, performance artist and designer Alok Vaid-Menon lifted the lid on fashion's 'regressive' gender stereotypes and urged the industry to 'de-gender' and redefine the meaning of beauty.

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22K views, 218 likes, 268 loves, 55 comments, 352 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Alok Vaid-Menon: Thank you to The Business of Fashion for inviting me to close the 2019 #BOFVoices conference.

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At this year's edition of VOICES, performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon sat down with Harris Reed, a recent Central Saint Martins graduate who has emerged as one of the industry's brightest rising stars and is vocal about pushing gender-fluid fashion to the mainstream. Reed and Alok spoke about concrete opportunities for industry stakeholders to

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Gender-fluid fashion should bring about a renaissance in how people dress, says Alok Vaid-Menon, centre, the advocate behind the #DeGenderFashion movement. At left and right, models wear clothing

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November 19, 202032:39. The Future of Trans, produced by TransLash Media, explores trans futures with some of the brightest, sharpest, creative minds in trans and gender non-conforming communities including Chella Man, ALOK, Dominique Jackson, Angelica Ross, Toni-Michelle, Aria Sai'd, Isa Noyola, Alok, Patricio Manuel, Shea Diamond, Fatima

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Alok Vaid-Menon Biography. ALOK (they/ them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of "Femme in Public" (2017), "Beyond the Gender Binary" (2020), and "Your Wound/ My Garden

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Normalize Not Knowing. Elevating the voices and experiences of transgender and nonbinary people is a passion of PFLAG National intern Sam Krauss (they/them), a government and sociology double major going into their senior year at Smith College, who comes from Abington, Pennsylvania. In this piece from a series that began on Nonbinary Day, Sam

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Alok V Menon on Fashion's Genderless Future | #BoFVOICES 2019. About. ALOK has performed in more than 600 venues in 40 countries. Their striking performance style combines poetry, comedy and audio-visual art and explores themes such as gender, origin, trauma and alienation.

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/voices-wrap-up/
Towards a Better Future. Gender non-conforming performance artist and poet, Alok V Menon, took to the stage to call time on the fashion industry's role in promoting damaging and limiting gender stereotypes. "We are usually only allowed on stages to entertain you, rarely to educate you," they said.

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2 Fashion's Genderless Future Menon's thesis is that fashion has been slowly transitioning from a gendered system to a genderless one over the past decade, and that this trend will continue—a sentiment which he illustrates through numerous statistical data points collected from multiple online retailers, news articles concerning significant fashion industry events, contributions from well