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?

Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

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

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

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