Sunday Pick: ALOK is microdosing creativity and rejecting norms

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🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Today: an episode from How to Be a Better Human, a podcast that shares the small ways and big ideas that can change your life for the better.

ALOK doesn’t call themselves a multihyphenate – but how else to describe the internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker? Whether they are exploring belonging and the human condition, or fighting to degender the fashion and beauty industries, ALOK is always tapping into their creativity. Today, they share their approach to the creative process, how art has helped them accept the beauty and pain of life, why poetry and comedy need each other and so much more.

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0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.0	Today we have a special treat, an episode of another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective
0:17.6	hand-picked for you by us.
0:20.2	You're about to hear an episode of How to be a better human that features poet and comedian
0:24.0	Aloak. Alok is a gender non-conforming artist whose work challenges our preconceived ideas of gender,
0:30.0	and we think hearing from them is a great way to commemorate Trans Day of Visibility,
0:34.4	which happens to be today. In this conversation, Aloak talks about redefining our idea of beauty,
0:40.4	breaking free of gender norms, and maintaining joy in a world that often seems filled with
0:45.0	hurt.
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