Alok on colonisation, gender outrage & identity

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  • Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
  • Moana sits down with a New Yorker who uses art and humour to provoke conversation and to challenge our misconceptions. Alok - goes by the pronouns they and them - and suggests there are bigger things for society to be frightened than people like them.

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  • @AThirstyPhilosopher
    @AThirstyPhilosopher 9 днів тому +2

    I’m so glad this interview came across my feed. Thank you! Every time I listen to ALOK, I am re-energized with hope for a more loving world.

  • @AilsaPehi
    @AilsaPehi 4 місяці тому +32

    Eloquent, articulate, and intelligent kōrero. Trans have been around forever. Catch up. To those who are afraid, build a bridge and get over it. They're not going anywhere and nor should they.

    • @fesimco4339
      @fesimco4339 Місяць тому

      Sure, but have you seen how hairy he is?

  • @joecutro7318
    @joecutro7318 21 день тому +4

    What a beautiful, articulate and kind spirit.
    🏳️‍🌈 💙💗🤍

  • @hilpei3675
    @hilpei3675 22 дні тому +4

    comedy is detox for trauma. Truth

  • @Lilys_room
    @Lilys_room 15 днів тому +3

    I love Alok so much😭❤

  • @myco_chaotix
    @myco_chaotix 8 днів тому +2

    Alok is such a beautiful human :)

  • @kareh6976
    @kareh6976 Місяць тому +3

    God will always have a special place for you son.

    • @krimmer66
      @krimmer66 22 дні тому +1

      *A TRUE* GOD.....👍. Sadly a lot people are following their own idea of god..

    • @kareh6976
      @kareh6976 22 дні тому +1

      @@krimmer66 Revelations 1 -14,15 kjv a Black man not that one with the long stringy hair and blue eyes -Cesare Borgia, that we were all forced to believe.

  • @linden5165
    @linden5165 4 місяці тому +13

    Me aroha ki te tangata, me aroha ki te tāngata takatāpui, me aroha ki te tāngata aniwaniwa 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤🤍🖤🌈
    Embracing people in all our natural and beautiful diversity is essential to our decolonisation.

  • @DanielleA2023
    @DanielleA2023 4 місяці тому +8

    Would love to see interviews with our (Aotearoas) takatapui, on a regular schedule

  • @zainabamadahy9918
    @zainabamadahy9918 18 днів тому +3

    What a deeply meaningful interview. Thank you.

  • @poppyfuller27
    @poppyfuller27 2 місяці тому +2

    Fantastic video! Thank you Alok for your views I'm with you 100% and Thank you Moana awesome interview.

  • @MagentaKaos
    @MagentaKaos 4 місяці тому +7

    Omg so excited to see you interview this amazing human!

  • @taylortaylor1967
    @taylortaylor1967 14 днів тому +1

    Beautiful ❤ overwhelming and extremely meaningful . I am transgender and I’m home in me.
    See you soon.

  • @Go_Home_British_Raj
    @Go_Home_British_Raj 4 місяці тому +7

    Takatapui is normal. Takatapui is the past and future. But We need adult Māori & American Indian State plans. Divided, individualised, vague plans based on passions get trumped by existed Colonial Systems every time. It benefits those selling it, as they can play the vocal rebel inside the existing spectacle. Too many grifters sell a false plan that benefits them inside existing Colonial System Careers.

    • @CJCappella
      @CJCappella 4 місяці тому +1

      Shut up...

    • @asinthedaysofnoah7942
      @asinthedaysofnoah7942 4 місяці тому

      Sit down Jon Terini and be quiet

    • @Go_Home_British_Raj
      @Go_Home_British_Raj 4 місяці тому +1

      @@asinthedaysofnoah7942 Cabbage Class Kupapa Christianists are the saddest of traitor grifters. Still chasing colonial loot and titles for the most moronic nonsense.

    • @Go_Home_British_Raj
      @Go_Home_British_Raj 4 місяці тому +1

      @@CJCappella Cabbage Class Kupapa Christianists are the saddest of traitor grifters. Still chasing colonial loot and titles for the most moronic nonsense.

    • @Go_Home_British_Raj
      @Go_Home_British_Raj 4 місяці тому +1

      @@asinthedaysofnoah7942 your cult is in the courts for abusing tamariki. all you are is kupapa

  • @julianang6144
    @julianang6144 4 місяці тому +3

    What an articulate, grounded, amazing, and connected to self person 😊

  • @rosethomas5079
    @rosethomas5079 4 місяці тому +7

    lovely

  • @nmrn148
    @nmrn148 21 день тому +1

    He is not trans or non-binary, just gay

    • @CitizeM
      @CitizeM 13 днів тому +1

      Although I feel that I'm shouting into the void here, I'll make my statement/ask my question anyway. Please, please tell me what special power or knowledge do you think you have that makes you able to make any decision about who, what, or how another human identifies themselves? I've been curious about the concept for a very long time. Enlighten me

    • @nmrn148
      @nmrn148 13 днів тому

      I have eyes and ears

    • @CitizeM
      @CitizeM 13 днів тому +1

      @@nmrn148 oh wow! You can see and hear? All that means is that you can say that someone does, in fact, exist, and is making sound. Considering that Alok says out loud how they identify, it seems like your ears aren't working properly. You're not special. You don't get to make decisions for anyone but yourself. You can do that just like anyone else can make decisions for themselves. You can have an opinion for sure, but opinions are not facts.

    • @qaqusee
      @qaqusee День тому

      Maybe not even gay just a narcissistic a-hole. he dresses in outrageous crazy ways and then complains when people make fun of him.

  • @fieldsofgold775
    @fieldsofgold775 4 місяці тому +1

    A Brave Soul.

    • @ribbrascal
      @ribbrascal 3 місяці тому

      A narcissistic one, rather

    • @fieldsofgold775
      @fieldsofgold775 3 місяці тому +2

      @ Well I’m not going to comment on that hun. I’m not qualified.
      But I do know that the word narcissist is a term thrown around too loosely nowadays.
      Just like “gaslighting”. It’s all rather cliche don’t you think?
      🤔

  • @smartypants6198
    @smartypants6198 3 дні тому

    Glamorous?

  • @Tyddyjack
    @Tyddyjack 4 місяці тому +9

    This is trash

  • @Marysuegg
    @Marysuegg 4 місяці тому +4

    Hi Moana, kiwi transgender woman here. I don't want to be rude and I respect that you've done this interview. However Alok is not a transgender woman and I find it quite offensive that someone who clearly has auto gynephilia is hijacking the term transgender. You have to have dysphoria which means you feel uncomfortable in your male body it is clear that that this person is happy being in a male body has facial hair this is not a transgender woman and this is very offensive to transgender woman who go through medical transition this is an activist who is riding the coattails of the transgender movement and transgender woman that put their lives at risk to trailblaze the way for us girls. Please be respectful to actual transgender woman and please be aware that we are not happy with these non-binary types invading our label. "transgender"

    • @youtubeguest1962
      @youtubeguest1962 4 місяці тому +9

      im takatāpui nonbinary and transgender, I have undergone medical transition but this does not make me less nonbinary. it makes me sad that we could be standing together against transphobia yet you are here choosing to bring down others in our community.

    • @Marysuegg
      @Marysuegg 4 місяці тому +2

      @@youtubeguest1962 sorry but being a transgender woman our space is a very specific set of requirements that means you feel female transgender is not non-binary please do not get these mixed up I find this extremely offensive I'm not saying that I don't agree with non-binary that's your space but please don't encroach on ours we fought very hard to be taken seriously as woman we are not non-binary

    • @newluix93
      @newluix93 4 місяці тому +1

      Thank you for being the light of reason

    • @realfingertrouble
      @realfingertrouble 21 день тому

      Alok is non-binary, gender non-conforming & transfeminine, Where did they say they were a transgender woman? You know trans can mean all kinds of things right? I am a enby agender queer person, and like it or not, that comes under the trans umbrella because...newsflash...I'm not cis. You can take your transmedicalist tru-trans views elsewhere, you are sounding like a TERF.

    • @realfingertrouble
      @realfingertrouble 21 день тому +1

      Also you don't have to have dysphoria - euphoria is also a tell. What ridiculousness. If you even are who you say you are, since these are JK Rowling style talking points....

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    Your concept of beauty is what I challenge

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    No one said it’s new but the language and self importance is

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    Grade a narcissist . The way he talks is more important than the words .

    • @prozierozie5692
      @prozierozie5692 Місяць тому +2

      @runterator it seems like your the one with narcissistic views my friend

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    It’s not colonial what about Muslim culture . Asian culture . I’m sorry relating white supremecyy to gender is so disturbing . .

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    Seee at one minute wanting to say being myself yet talk about it being disassociation there’s no congruence . Each statement separately sound fantastic but when you cross reference himself on himself you soon hear the baloney

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    Makes you more and more rich.

  • @patrickhauraki8713
    @patrickhauraki8713 4 місяці тому

    😂

  • @dogisgreat1
    @dogisgreat1 2 місяці тому

    Not profound. Not even interesting.

    • @jounces
      @jounces 8 днів тому

      Awww... don't say such unkind things about yourself.

  • @runterator
    @runterator 2 місяці тому

    You are disaccharide of reality living in ideological wonderland