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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
Vivek Shraya
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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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I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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 do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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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 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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