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.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

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."

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.

I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.