Who is Alok Vaid-Menon?

There perhaps couldn’t be a better fit for the city’s spiciest, most inclusive thought-starter festival than Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them). The internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian and public speaker (and also fashion icon, if we’re being honest) uses their work to explore themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They also live very publicly as a gender non-conforming trans-feminine person. They discuss this in their book, Beyond the Gender Binary, which is also the title of their main talk at FODI.