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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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 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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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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I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our acceptance of diversity.
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If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.
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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 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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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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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