Vivek Shraya Quotes

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

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  Art, Comfort, Tools

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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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  Differences, Trying, Vices

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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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  Hate, Writing, Hatred

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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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  Prudent, Sanctimonious, Active

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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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  Children, Book, Age

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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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  Feelings, Answers, Resolution

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• Como persona de color, sé que la raza no puede despojarse de la admiración o la preferencia.

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  Race, Color, Admiration

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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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  Country, Art, Ideas

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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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  Art, White, Addresses

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• Hace poco hice una lectura en una escuela primaria de Ottawa, y uno de los niños me preguntó si era niña. Respondí que sí. Otro niño comentó que tenía una voz grave. Yo respondí: "¿Las niñas pueden tener voz grave?". Hubo una pausa y luego el grupo respondió: "¡Sí!".

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  Girl, Children, Reading

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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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  Home, Writing, Heartache

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• I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

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  Art, Use, Narrative

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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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  Home, Hair, Blue

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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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  Art, Gender, Made

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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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  Art, Artist, Exciting

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• When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

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  Writing, Musical, Wanted

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• Mi intención nunca fue escribir una "novela trans", que quizá sea una estrategia eficaz para escribir una novela trans.

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  Writing, Strategy, Intention

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• Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

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  Art, Artist, Sometimes

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• Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

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  Fall, Thinking, Media

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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, Believe, Home

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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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  Voice, Body, Online

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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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  Ideas, Focus, Intention

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• Aún no sé qué estilo requerirá mi próxima novela, pero tengo la sensación de que cada libro implicará una nueva relación con el lenguaje.

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  Book, New Relationship, Style

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• Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

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  Writing, Racism, Doe

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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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  Thinking, Language, Intention

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