In a Q&A panel following his skit, queer and transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American comedian D’Lo opened up about how he uses the arts to advocate for the value of emotional vulnerability.
Brian Zhang
Staff Reporter
Miranda Jeyaretnam, Contributing Photographer
The Asian American Cultural Center kicked off its Pan Asian American Heritage Month programming with a keynote comedy skit from D’Lo, an award-winning queer and transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American speaker.
On Thursday evening, D’Lo transported the audience in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall into his world with relatable punchlines, telling the story of a young artist raised in an immigrant household and his journey to finding self-expression.
“In BIPOC communities, we know humor like nobody else, because it’s the only way we can get through the day,” D’Lo said. “Comedy is healing, and it is medicine — I do believe that in many ancient performance traditions, there is the role of the clown, and the clown is sacred.”
His career has seen him taking on various writing, television and film roles. He is credited for contributing to the HBO series “Looking,” Amazon’s “Transparent,” NBC’s “Connecting” and Netflix’s “Sense8” and…
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