In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

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."

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

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.