In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
Vivek ShrayaMy interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.
Vivek ShrayaNow is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
Vivek ShrayaOf 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.
Vivek Shraya