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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
Vivek Shraya
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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 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 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 was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my own worry that I have been invited to speak or collaborate solely because of my race, and not because of my abilities.
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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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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.
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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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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 continue to explore poetry.
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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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I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
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