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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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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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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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of 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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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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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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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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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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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 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 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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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
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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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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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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 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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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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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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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
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