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

I continue to explore poetry.

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.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

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

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.