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.

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

I continue to explore poetry.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

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.

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.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.