Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

I continue to explore poetry.

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 have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

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

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.