Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

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

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

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.

I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency arise: What choices should I make, or do I have to make, if I want to be compensated for my work? Why isn't my art valued on its own?

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

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.