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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
Vivek Shraya
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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 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 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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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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 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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
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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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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 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 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 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 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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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 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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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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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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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