Darkmatter Poetry: Alok Vaid Menon & Janani Balasubramanian - Non-binary trans performance "artists"

[Trombonista]

Of course he looks happier wearing pants. Even he's getting tired of this shit.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Count me as another who thinks he doesn't want this anymore.

It's obvious he's getting older, but.... maturing too, such as it is, and part of that is realizing earlier follies. You know what's a folly? Putting on a controversial act and watching it become not even daring anymore, but just plain offputting. He's not merely passe but doesn't even rankle up active disgust. Imagine when he can't even get invites to these B-list events and whatever youthfulness he still has is gone. What will he have then? What does he have to cherish?

I would be frightened to be in such a position where putting on simple pants is a luxury.

 

[Lucille Bluth]

Goddamn is this dude hairy. I know that's expected for a Pajeet, but there's a reason why many men cover up. I'm surprised this thread isn't more popular. They seem like someone who'd have a lot of things to discuss, but I guess not.

Supposedly, that quote attributed to him about blaming little girls for getting raped was written by that woman, Janani, but it's still fucked. Years ago, Redditors were rationalizing the quote, saying that Alok is a Brown victim saying that there are no perfect "white angels". So I'd like to see what happens when little "brown angels" get raped by the same men they're telling us to not be afraid of.

I have no clue what "white colonialist binary" is, but I've seen it mentioned in relation to him elsewhere. If it's about the male and female structure, and how some non-Western cultures have alleged "third genders" (i.e - hijra), then every single one of those "third genders" is just a homophobic/sexist label to categorize men or women who aren't masculine/feminine enough for society. And often times, it does not perfectly align with Anglo concepts of troons.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

I don’t care if this dude completely reverses his stance on being a shemale, which I suspect he is doing because the grift money is drying up. The things he’s said, such as stating that “little girls are kinky” and demanding that it’s okay for men like him to use the women’s restroom and shower around girls is vile. He is a disturbed individual.

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

I don’t care if this dude completely reverses his stance on being a shemale, which I suspect he is doing because the grift money is drying up. The things he’s said, such as stating that “little girls are kinky” and demanding that it’s okay for men like him to use the women’s restroom and shower around girls is vile. He is a disturbed individual.

He's still enby. He just got this nauseating puff piece in Queerty.
Non-binary activist and performer Alok Vaid-Menon will not stop finding beauty through art

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Funnily enough, he's not even the most famous Alok. Searching his name, the top result is a Brazilian DJ:

Somehow he managed to get famous without dressing like a circus clown rapist.

 

[AssignedEva]

I don’t care if this dude completely reverses his stance on being a shemale, which I suspect he is doing because the grift money is drying up. The things he’s said, such as stating that “little girls are kinky” and demanding that it’s okay for men like him to use the women’s restroom and shower around girls is vile. He is a disturbed individual.

In fairness "Little Girls Are Kinky" was Janani (the pooner), not him - although he still carried on working with her for a bit and allowed her to repost it in the fact of criticism (I did a deep dive on the timeline a page or two back, and it does look like that article was what lead to the breakdown of DarkMatter).

This summer, they’ll be bringing a splash of color as they traverse both North America and Europe with their standup show. Despite the political exhaustion (and a sea of hate comments they’ve trained themself to address with love and empathy), it’s art and connection that helps Alok continue to find hope. Just like it did when they were a wee Texas tween.

That's an interesting piece of the puzzle.

The European leg is with Travis "I got hatecrimed by a burger" Alabanza, but it's notable that he's moving away from activism, public speaking and performance art and going into "stand up comedy". This seems to have kicked off with Hannah Gadsby's "Gender Agenda", which was held in Alexandra Palace last October.

Hannah was very upset with Netflix for doing a hecking transphobia, so got some enbies from around the world together to do a set for a Netflix special, which came out in March. I guess since he'd put together a set, he decided to start using this as a new angle for a grift, which worked because Alok also "headlined" Netflix Is A Joke, the Netflix comedy festival this month (with Dylan Mulvaney as an opening act).

He's also doing Edinburgh Fringe this year

This does help explain Dylan's recent foray into stand up, as he continually rides Alok's coat tails. Anyway here's some hideous recent Alok outfits for you to marvel at, and I apologise in advance for the psychic damage this will cause

I'm sorry, Jon.

 

[Temperance]

Crosspost. Alok is a member of a GLAAD advisory committee, together with other lolcows like Liz Fong-Jones and Alejandra Caraballo. The purpose of this committee is basically to pressure social media companies into banning any wrongthink about troons.

Liz Fong-Jones is a member of GLAAD's SMSI Advisory Committee. (SMSI = Social Media Safety Index)

Committee members:

• ALOK, writer, performer, and media personality;
• Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D, Director, Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University;
• Alejandra Caraballo, Esq., Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School;
• Joan Donovan Ph.D, Founder, Critical Internet Studies Institute and Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University;
• Jelani Drew-Davi, Senior Communications Specialist, Kairos;
• Liz Fong-Jones, Field CTO, Honeycomb;
• Evan Greer, Director, Fight for the Future;
• Leigh Honeywell, CEO and Co-Founder, Tall Poppy;
• Maria Ressa, Journalist & CEO, Rappler;
• Tom Rielly, Founder, TED Fellows Program and Founder, PlanetOut.com;
• Dr. Sarah T. Roberts, Faculty Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry;
• Brennan Suen, Deputy Director of External Affairs, Media Matters for America;
• Kara Swisher, editor-at-large, New York Magazine;
• Marlena Wisniak, Senior Advisor, Digital Rights, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law.

Quite the rat king! I recognize a few of these names.

More info in the full post.

 

[Charnel Ground]

Alok is at it again. (x-post from USPG2)

Pink haired trans activist says the reason people are opposed to pornographic books in schools is because they don’t have any love in them.

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Reposting the video for easy access:

 

[AssignedEva]

Here's a rundown of Alok since the last update

Spoiler

Kinds of Kindness premiere, June 2024 - outfit £395/$510

New York Fashion Week, September 2024 - outfit £1100/$1420

Emmys party, September 2024 - outfit probably vintage but the bag's £170/$220

Free Future: Preventing Gender Violence Around The World, September 2024 - not including the bag (Brandon Blackwood from 2019), outfit £735/$950.

Business of Fashion at the Soho Farmhouse, November 2024 - outfit likely vintage but he's wearing more Charlotte Stone shoes, £280/$360. Second one's bespoke Leo Peralta he had for his tour and the same Ganni flats.

SXSW conference, March 2025. Outfit £1080/$1400.

Netflix's "Survival of the Thickest" Season 2 Premiere, March 2025. None recent - dress is Ganni Spring '21, bag's a 2010s Valentino, pretty sure he's worn these shoes before.

I'm pretty sure most of his clothing is either purchased or gifted, since he rewears it so that suggests it's not rental. But given the amount of recent season pieces in his rotation I estimate Alok has spent at least £3760/$4900 on clothes in the last 9 months based on six public appearances that are on Getty Images.
In theory that's not that bad for someone who's constantly going to public events and is about half what he spent in two months last year. But it's still a lot of money for someone to spend on clothes when he spent most of the 2010s lecturing everyone about privilege (even if he's seemingly tried to branch out from activism) and especially when he always manages to look SO BAD.