As much as I believe in the capacity for art to create change, and as much as being an artist is physically and emotionally challenging, there is ultimately something a bit comfortable about making art in the comfort of your own home.

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

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.

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.

When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.