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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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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 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 continue to explore poetry.
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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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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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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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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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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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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
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I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.
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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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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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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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Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.
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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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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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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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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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