2023-04-17
36 分钟ALOK doesn’t quite get the term multihyphenate – but how else to describe the internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker? From exploring belonging and the human condition, to fighting to degender the fashion and beauty industries, ALOK is tapping into their creativity constantly. Today, they share their approach to the creative process, how art has helped them accept the beauty and pain of life, why poetry and comedy need each other and so much more! For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
Beauty is one of those words that I think many of us feel like we know when we see it, but also feel like doesn't apply to ourselves.
Or let me not speak for you.
That's definitely how I feel.
We've all heard the phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that's not really true, right?
Beauty is often uncomfortably standardized and limited in who it applies to, its thin bodies, its light, clear skin, its fashionable clothes that double as a display of wealth.
But todays guest Alok does not buy that.
They dont buy that one bit.
Alok is on a mission to redefine what we think of as beautiful, to help us all to accept ourselves fully and completely, and to break down the rigid, societally constructed rules around gender.
Beauty is less about what we look like and its more about what we feel like.
Beauty, for me is about presence, being able to be located here and now, not what anxiety makes me do, which is dwell in the future, and not what depression makes me do, which is stagnate in the past.
Beauty is fundamentally about being myself, not even just looking like myself, being myself.
Which means that beauty shifts over time.
What I found to be beautiful five years ago is not what I find to be beautiful now.
And that means that we have to make standard that there is no beauty standard, that actually each person is their own complex universe and offers and templates their own form of beauty.
Were going to talk much more with Alok in just a moment, but first, a quick break.
Dont go anywhere.
With an intense White House battle ahead, we need a better conversation about the.