Barriers Quote by Vivek Shraya

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…

— Vivek Shraya

I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio…

— Vivek Shraya

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.

— Vivek Shraya

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

— Vivek Shraya

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

— Vivek Shraya

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

— Vivek Shraya

I continue to explore poetry.

— Vivek Shraya

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

— Vivek Shraya

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my…

— Vivek Shraya

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

— Vivek Shraya

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

— Vivek Shraya

In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to…

— Vivek Shraya