UMass Amherst OEI Welcomes Activist and Performer ALOK on March 25

ALOK

The UMass Amherst Office of Equity and Inclusion will host "An Evening with ALOK" on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the UMass Amherst campus community. Advanced registration is required.

ALOK is an internationally acclaimed poet, comedian, public speaker and actor. They are the author of "Femme in Public," "Beyond the Gender Binary" and "Your Wound/My Garden," and the creator of #DeGenderFashion, an initiative to de-gender the fashion and beauty industries. They have been honored as the inaugural LGBTQ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, awarded a GLAAD Media Award, and were selected as a 2023 Advocate of the Year by The Advocate Magazine.

They have toured in more than 40 countries, selling out their runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center and headlining Just for Laughs in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Their show has been described as "provocative and powerful" and a "jaw-dropping celestial event." On-screen, they are the subject of the short documentary film "ALOK," directed by Alex Hedison and executive produced by Jodie Foster, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024.

On television, they can be seen in season three of the critically acclaimed HBO Max series, "Sort Of," opposite Bilal Baig, Hulu's "Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne," ABC's "PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of A Nation," Netflix's "Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness" and HBO's "Random Acts of Flyness."

Live American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and access to gender neutral restrooms will be available.

For more information and to register to attend the event, visit the Office of Equity and Inclusion website.

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