Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

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

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

I would love to see more dialogue around the "responsibilities" of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we love, artists who are doing the work, so that artists have a more solid foundation upon which to make art?

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

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?

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.