Dressing in Beauty Beyond the Gender Binary with Alok Vaid-Menon
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this episode we revisit our 2021 conversation with poet, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon who discusses the beauty, importance and imperative of moving beyond the gender binary with the #DeGenderFashion movement.
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| 1:43.6 | Over seven billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day, we all get |
| 1:48.8 | dressed. Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, |
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| 2:02.1 | Welcome to part two of our conversation with performance artist, author, designer, public speaker, scholar, and poet, Alok, Vad Menon. |
| 2:12.5 | My beauty is so tremendous. |
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