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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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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 especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our acceptance of diversity.
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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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 would love to see more dialogue around the responsibilities of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we love, artists who are doing the work, so that artists have a more solid foundation upon which to make art?
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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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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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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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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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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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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I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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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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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
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