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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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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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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 continue to explore poetry.
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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 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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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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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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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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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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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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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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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