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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Vivek Shraya

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I continue to explore poetry.
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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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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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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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My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.
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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 always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.
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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 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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I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.
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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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