Comedian-as-philospher Alok Vaid-Menon performs at the Improv for one unmissable night

Poet, public speaker and artist Alok Vaid-Menon is blessing Orlando with their presence on Wednesday — and the only thing we aren’t 100 percent on board with is the location of this crucial event.

Nothing against the Improv, you understand, nor even a quibble with Alok’s choice to identify their speaking engagements as “comedy”; transfused with humor they certainly are, but “sermons” seems a more apropos moniker to us.

The “radically hopeful” trans activist reaches millions on their Instagram feed (@alokvmenon), sharing poetry, history, political analysis and fierce looks with equal aplomb, working to #degenderfashion and getting provocatively vulnerable. Like Alok themself, this evening will resist categorization while making categories seem so last millennium.

9:15 p.m., Wednesday, Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive, theimprovorlando.com, $32-$128.

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This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2023.