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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
Vivek Shraya
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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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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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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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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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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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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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I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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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I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.
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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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