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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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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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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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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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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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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 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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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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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My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.
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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
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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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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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 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 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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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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