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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
Vivek Shraya
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Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.
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I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.
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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.
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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.
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I would love to see more dialogue around the responsibilities of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we love, artists who are doing the work, so that artists have a more solid foundation upon which to make art?
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I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.
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Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.
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My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.
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I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: Can girls have deep voices? There was a pause and then the group responded, Yes!
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I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.
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I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.
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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
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My intention was never to write a trans novel - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
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I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.
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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to look normal.
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