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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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 couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.
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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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I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then accidentally sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.
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I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.
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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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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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 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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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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I continue to explore poetry.
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I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.
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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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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 am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency arise: What choices should I make, or do I have to make, if I want to be compensated for my work? Why isn't my art valued on its own?
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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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As much as I believe in the capacity for art to create change, and as much as being an artist is physically and emotionally challenging, there is ultimately something a bit comfortable about making art in the comfort of your own home.
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Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.
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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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