I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

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

I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"

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.

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

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

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.