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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Gender-nonconforming artist Alok Vaid-Menon speaks to students about the challenges transgender people face. They also performed poetry at the event in Lutkin Hall on Friday, sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Coalition and South Asian Student Alliance.

Poet discusses challenges transgender people of color face at APAC, SASA event

October 22, 2017

Alok Vaid-Menon said they did not start to identify as transgender because they wanted to be a woman, but because they wanted to reclaim their femininity “from the women who stole it.” “There’s...

DarkMatter speaks out against transphobia and racism during the duo's spoken word performance at Parkes Hall on Sunday night. The South Asian art group brought poetry and discussion about nonconforming LGBT people to Northwestern as the student group Rainbow Alliance's fall speakers.

DarkMatter presents poetry performance #ItGetsBitter at Rainbow Alliance’s fall speaker event

October 26, 2015

DarkMatter, a transgender South-Asian performance art duo composed of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, performed their #ItGetsBitter spoken word poetry as Rainbow Alliance’s fall speaker Sunday...

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