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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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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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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 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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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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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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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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Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.
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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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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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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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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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Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
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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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It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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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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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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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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