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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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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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 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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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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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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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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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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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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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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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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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 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 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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