Alok Vaid-Menon: Gender Selfie-Determination

Iris Nights Lecture Series
Lecture
PAST EVENT: Thu, Sep 29, 2016

Alok Vaid-Menon discusses the stakes of visual representation for trans and gender non-conforming people, drawing from their work as a mixed media performance artist to think through what it means to live and embody outside gender.

Speaker

Alok Vaid-Menon
Alok Vaid-Menon

Alok Vaid-Menon is a non-binary transgender femme writer and performance artist. They have been invited to perform, speak and facilitate at universities, conferences and organizations across the world. Their work, which grapples with themes of gender, race, trauma and belonging, has been featured in various media outlets such as Buzzfeed, HBO, MTV, TEDx, The Guardian, The…

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Exhibit

IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits is a refreshing and deeply engaging study of race, gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity in America.

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Location

Annenberg Space for Photography's Skylight Studios
10050 Constellation Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90067

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    Alok Vaid-Menon draws upon their work as a mixed media performance artist to think through what it means to live and embody outside gender.

  • Lecture
    Alok Vaid-Menon: Gender Selfie-Determination

    Alok Vaid-Menon: Gender Selfie-Determination

    Alok Vaid-Menon discusses the stakes of visual representation for trans and gender non-conforming people.
  • Exhibit
    IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits

    IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits

    IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits is a refreshing and deeply engaging study of race, gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity in America.