so being trans is another way of announcing “i am running away from home” - Alok Vaid-Menon Watch the full poem along with bonus 21 questions here: https://youtu.be/D0d9quSpZmg | UnErase Poetry

Alok Vaid-Menon is an internationally acclaimed poet, performer, comedian, and public thinker, whose work challenges norms and expands the world’s understanding of identity, beauty, and expression. Their groundbreaking books, ‘Beyond the Gender Binary’ and ‘Femme in Public’, have become defining works in contemporary queer literature, celebrated for their lyricism, urgency, vulnerability, and fierce clarity. Their poetry collection Your Wound / My Garden, written during the lockdown, is a medita