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

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

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

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

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

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.

Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my own worry that I have been invited to speak or collaborate solely because of my race, and not because of my abilities.