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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 worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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 interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.
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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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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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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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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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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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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