Alok Vaid-Menon

It's a beautifully designed book, beautifully made, really recommend that, it's lovely.

And then there's also Beyond the Gender Boundary by Alok Vaid-Menon.

And I will leave a source link in the video description, as always, that has all the books that I'm mentioning in this video in it and links and all sorts of stuff like that.

So, yeah, there you

Several things in the weeks leading up to the party had triggered depressive episodes, and I was feeling like I might not be able to pull out of it.

The Monday after the party, I packed my Alok V. Menon tote bag and walked from my apartment over to the psychiatric hospital.

It was the longest walk ever to a building that I strolled by on a regular basis.

They took my bag.

Based on what happened, this is gonna be great when, uh, we get to homophobia, and they call everyone on the carpet." But then they didn't.

And, um, you know, I, I've been watching this, um, Alok Vaid-Menon.

Uh, I think I've learned to say his name okay.

Um, but, uh, by the way, I'm taking a shit.

I'm going to the back of my book because one of the people that has been very influencing to me is Elok Menon.

Alok Menon is a trans femme activist.

They then pronouns of heritage of American citizenship with South Asian heritage and was wrongly assigned at birth by gender.

and for me what they're doing in their trans activism is really challenging the binary and everything i think the the trans are people are leading the way in terms of challenging all the binaries so this is a beautiful quote from alok menon reality is an ongoing construction project and we too hold the tools The only way we can create change is by recognising that we must continually exceed our own paradigms, expand our imagination of freedom.

Today, I will speak from the pieces of my broken heart to show you what they are teaching me about love.

I believe the movement against the gender binary is a love letter to the world.