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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 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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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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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 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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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 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 do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.
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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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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 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 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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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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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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 worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.
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