I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

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.

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

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.

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

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

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