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Sebastian Ritscher
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BEYOND THE GENDER BINARY

Alok Vaid-Menon

Second volume in the new Pocket Change Collective, the first series that gives activists a platform to speak directly to young readers on today's most pressing issues.
In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights activist Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary.

In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Alok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming writer, performance artist, and educator who has been featured by HBO, MTV, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and more. Their eclectic style and poetic challenge to the gender binary are known around the world.
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Published 2020-06-02 by Penguin Workshop

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There's no better time for a new conversation about the damaging effects of mainstream society's oppressive, dismissive, and silencing stance on who folks are supposed to be based on... what ... ? Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself.

They spoke at the Business of Fashion conference about de-gendering clothes. Read more...

Alok was a featured poet on Rupi Kaur's open mic IG Live session Read more...

Beyond the Gender Binary is a literary vessel of light for those who are looking for hopefulness, honesty, and a stimulating education in the exploration of themselves. This book is a twenty-first-century survival guide for queer-identifying people of all walks of life - Alok provides a safe space of shared experiences, commitment, and love to expand the gender binary to create a brighter and more inclusive present and future. This book shares wisdom, knowledge, and the universal spirit of celebrating one's self by shattering the transphobic lens that hinders most gender non-conforming people. Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers everywhere the feeling that anything is possible within themselves, and that self-love through whatever choice of gender expression is truly attainable.

...The prose maintains a conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the same time, the author's turns-of-phrase in moments of deep insight ring with precision and poetry.... A fierce, penetrating, and empowering call for change.

This beautiful book is a beacon, just like Alok. Having Alok in my life has saved me in so many ways, and now you can have a little bit of them with you, too. When reading this book, all I feel is kindness. This is a step-by-step education on what it means to respect non-binary people. Alok is a human being who has a deep love and commitment to other human beings. They have come to us from the future to show us what life could be like if we all loved a little harder and dug a little deeper.

Alok was featured as a part of the 2019's OUT 100 Read more...

Alok was featured in Sam Smith and Demi Lovato's "I'm Ready" music video Read more...