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Vivek Shraya
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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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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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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 have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.
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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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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 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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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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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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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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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Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.
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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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In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to living in a country that obscures our racism with the idea of multiculturalism.
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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 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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