Embrace Your Identity Fashion Show

press release: Join us for the Fifth Embrace Fashion by Fashion Marketing Department at Madison College. This year, the theme is Embrace Your Identity, as we celebrate ourselves through fashion and expression.

Date: Monday, November 22

Embrace Your Fashion Show: 9:30 AM - 11 AM, Truax Campus D1630

Live Performance & book signing of "Beyond the Gender Binary" by ALOK Vaid-Menon: 1 - 2 PM (CST), Truax Campus D1630

This event is brought to you by the Office of Equity and Inclusion, the Fashion Design Department, and GSA student group at Madison College.

ALOK (they/them) is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist who was recently featured in Hu?Po's “Culture Shifters '21” List. Their distinctive style and poetic challenge to the gender binary has been internationally renowned. As a mixed-media artist ALOK uses poetry, prose, comedy, performance, design, and portraiture to explore themes of eugenics, trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of “Femme in Public” (2017) and “Beyond the Gender Binary” (2020). In 2019, they were honored as one of NBC’s “Pride 50” and Out Magazine’s “OUT 100.” They are currently an artist in residence at the Annette von Droste zu Hülsho?-Stiftung Foundation Center for Literature