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

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.

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

I continue to explore poetry.

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.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.