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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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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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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 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 have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.
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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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 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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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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I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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My intention was never to write a trans novel - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
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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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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 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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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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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 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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