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.

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

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."

I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency arise: What choices should I make, or do I have to make, if I want to be compensated for my work? Why isn't my art valued on its own?

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

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.

I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity."