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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
Vivek Shraya
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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 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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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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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 worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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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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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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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I continue to explore poetry.
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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 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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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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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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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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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 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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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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
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