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I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

Vivek Shraya

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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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I continue to explore poetry.
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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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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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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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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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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