ALOK dishes on comedy as a tool for change, filming in a sex shop & the pop icon who saved the day

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Writer, performer, poet, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon has never been someone that’s shied away from the truth, or who’s been afraid to confront the challenges of life that might make others uncomfortable.

But just because they’re always down to tackle some tough topics doesn’t mean they can’t do it with a laugh!

That’s the M.O. of Alok’s first-ever comedy special Biology!, which dropped online earlier this month after touring it across 36 countries around the world. Written in the wake of their grandfather’s passing, Alok created a show that held space for both the sorrow and the joy of life: “[I want] to show that it is possible to be both the happiest and the saddest you’ve ever been at the

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