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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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 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 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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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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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My intention was never to write a trans novel - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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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 worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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 recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: Can girls have deep voices? There was a pause and then the group responded, Yes!
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I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.
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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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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 continue to explore poetry.
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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 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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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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