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censorship is a slippery slope 😂 !
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transness as a practice of dreaming beyond our wildest imagination
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fear drags us back to past versions of ourselves. love is presence.
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it's important to be culturally affirming of cis people during these difficult times 😂
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unlearning self-hatred
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mom can i just peek in the session? i'm curious!! 😂
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y'all are so sweet & working so hard! thank you sm 😂! watch BIOLOGY!
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what pain lives beneath your judgment?
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why comedians matter!!
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weird flex! watch BIOLOGY!
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it's important to be inclusive
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so grateful to be here in this form
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a sacred art form 😂
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trans comedy forever 😂
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a reminder: women in pants used to be seen as crossdressing...
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gender non-conformity brought me back home to myself.
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The LGBTQIBS movement is the future we need 😂 watch BIOLOGY!
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why would we take our style advice from patriarchy?
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dreaming of a world where people get to self-determine their genders
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ew why do y'all dress like that? leave that at home! 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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speak beauty! notice what lives alongside the misery.
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why do you feel like you're not worthy of expansion?
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people cutting off their BIOLOGICAL hair makes me very uncomfortable! 😂
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many beautiful things are forged in fires.
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dreaming of a world big enough to hold all our grief
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what's the point in healing? watch my comedy special biology!
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the burden of inauthenticity
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I don't know therefore I am
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all i'm asking for is consistency! 😂
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"i don't know!" as a loving gesture
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being american: seeing something and pretending it's not there
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you learn something new every day! 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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compassion ends separation
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every small gesture can be a commitment ceremony to presence
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from your mussy to your bussy 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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love is where authenticity lives
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ever since i found out Finland has a friendship day i've dreamed for one all across the world!
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my sports trauma for the win 😂 watch BIOLOGY!
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vulnerability is who we are.
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the beauty of change
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panic attack = a new yoga pose 😂 watch BIOLOGY!
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thanks to comedy legend Christopher Guest for mentoring me & executive producing my comedy special!
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you get to be joyous now.
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broadening my appeal by making comedy material that men can see themselves in 😂
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cw: hate violence. Starting my Australia Tour this week. It's always emotional for me coming back
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"be yourself!" until you make them uncomfortable, that is.
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you-know-who 😂 watch my comedy special biology!
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appreciation of our mortality gets us back to our shared humanity! watch BIOLOGY!
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comedy as therapy? how original 😂
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humor is essential. talking about my new comedy special BIOLOGY! on @TheDailyShow
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on cynicism
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MAKE INSULTS GREAT AGAIN! 😂 watch BIOLOGY! my comedy special
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hatred is a tell of a deeper pain.
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the fabulosity doesn't come from nowhere...
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pain is the root.
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dark humor is what's going to get me through this! thank you @TheDailyShow for the banter!
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they / them / were 💀😂 watch my comedy special biology!
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i love & need you.
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when we have nothing else, at least we have laughter. thank you to @TheDailyShow for having me
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authenticity as a compass back to one another.
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comedy as alchemy | watch my new comedy special BIOLOGY!
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the real biology being erased is our mortality! watch my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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sepia is leading to escalating transphobia across the world! 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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put yourself in love's way
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reads one book, becomes an expert 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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work through your pain!
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what it means to be an artist
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trans people are losers 😂 stream my comedy special BIOLOGY!
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in my comedy special biology i weave comedy with poetry to explore how we come to laughter from pain
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ALOK: Biology! | Full Comedy Special
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i'm here because i get to feel it! stream my new comedy special BIOLOGY!
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~attention seeking~
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my standup is an imprint of my joy. watch biology!
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poetry is not merely a genre of literature, it's a mode of living.
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they'll never love you if they won't love you in your fullness #2024YearInReview
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always rooting for your healing #2024YearInReview
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style as an everyday practice of authenticity
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2024 was a mess, but at least I looked cute. Here are 20 of my favorite outfits from the past year
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friendship is medicine
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what it means to be an artist via Variety #2024YearInReview
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state of the union: daddy issues. watch my new comedy special BIOLOGY!
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you learn something new every day! 😂 watch my new comedy special BIOLOGY!
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Science continues to be erased...that's why I made a comedy special! Stream my new special BIOLOGY!
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trans people are powerful and magnificent.
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~they can't even see color~ stream my new comedy special BIOLOGY out today! Now on my website
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i identify as a dilemma.
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what does it mean to first learn out who you are from a slur?
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authenticity as a collective project
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sometimes we need silly solutions to serious problems
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pain as a pathway to connect back to one another
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why would we deny the world our beauty?
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queer people are magical. love & need you.
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My first comedy special BIOLOGY! is out exclusively on my website December 18!
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"If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit it" Richard Rohr. interrupt the cycle
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intergenerational healing
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ALOK: Biology | Official Trailer | Comedy Special
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hatred harms both sides
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the courage to be yourself
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thank you
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who would we be if we didn't have to fear violence?
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education of the heart
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Stonewall Foundation Vision Award (2022) Acceptance Speech
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let’s create a world #beyondthegenderbinary
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pov: you're a trans person at a baby shower
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transformation is possible
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Trans Day of Remembrance Sermon at Middle Church NYC (2022)
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i am loveable in this incarnation
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don't erase science!!!
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Today is #TransDayofRemembrance. I feel continually undone by all of the grief of our lost siblings.
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It's #TransAwarenessWeek! Redirect your rage from being called cis, to the system.
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happy #transawarenessweek thank you trans people for being a miracle.
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it's #transawarenessweek this has never been about logic, it's always been about love.
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It's #TransAwarenessWeek and we need more compassion for trans and non-binary people
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happy #transawarenessweek just a reminder: all words were made up
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proud connoisseur of white art
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dreaming of a world that celebrates creativity over conformity
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from a model of pathology to poetry
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lie down comedy 😂
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shoutout to indian family whatsapp chats making sure i have brown in every town on tour
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for my fellow AAPI actors
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compassion: liberating oneself from resentment
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dream bigger
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i'd very much like to be excluded from this narrative...
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style as mobile poetry
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joy is a threat to a miserable world
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transphobia is spooooky
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what it means to be enough
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on trans representation
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love as a practice of embracing the complicatedness of one another.
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do we know who we are outside of our pain?
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if you're going to tell me to shave then please sponsor me 🤣
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humor makes me want to live
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holding my ancestors close today
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bitch! the most versatile word in the english language
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Transphobia hurts us all
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trans joy forever
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i have a ~biological advantage~ to be funny 😂
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"What We Are is Free" Alok Vaid-Menon at the New York LGBT Center Dinner
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