{"id":9526,"date":"2016-08-02T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=9526"},"modified":"2019-03-25T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:20:58","slug":"brushstrokes-vaid-menon-trans-attire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-vaid-menon-trans-attire\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Alok Vaid-Menon\u2019s Stunning Trans Attire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alok Vaid-Menon is one half of the trans South Asian performance duo from New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatterpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DarkMatter<\/a>. Vaid-Menon was gender-assigned male at birth, identifies as transfeminine (that is, identifies with femininity to a greater extent than with masculinity) and prefers the pronouns \u2018they\u2019 and \u2018their\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world I\u2019m fighting for is when we stop making assumptions around everything, when we allow people to self-narrate their bodies,\u201d Vaid-Menon is quoted as having said <a href=\"http:\/\/aplus.com\/a\/alok-vaid-menon-trans-feminie-poet-gender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in an interview<\/a> about their work.<\/p>\n<p>Using striking gender-transgressing outfits in their performances and in social media as a tool of activism to draw attention to trans identities and politics, DarkMatter performs in stirring spoken word poetry around the world about the lived realities of trans people of colour.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Vaid-Menon\u2019s images in trans attire on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/darkmatterpoetry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DarkMatter Facebook<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;9529&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alok Vaid-Menon is one half of the trans South Asian performance duo from New York, DarkMatter. Vaid-Menon was gender-assigned male at birth, identifies as transfeminine (that is, identifies with femininity to a greater extent than with masculinity) and prefers the pronouns \u2018they\u2019 and \u2018their\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":9541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[775,14,7],"tags":[779,784,17,783],"class_list":{"0":"post-9526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-attire-sexuality","8":"category-brushstrokes","9":"category-visualcorner","10":"tag-attire-and-sexuality","11":"tag-femininity","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-trans-identities"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16693,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions\/16693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}