As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to living in a country that obscures our racism with the idea of "multiculturalism."

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

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

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."

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.