I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

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.

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 recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"

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

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.