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so i made your skin the colour of my home the night sky you were already stars.
- Vivek Shraya, one / birth
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Awww, looks like bi trans author Vivek Shraya has written a children’s book!
The Boy and the Bindi is a playful picture book about a young boy’s fascination with the dot on his mother’s forehead.
Ammi, why do you wear that dot? What’s so special about that spot?
It’s not a dot, says my Ammi— It’s not a spot, it’s a bindi!
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So thrilled to be opening for Tegan and Sara on the Canadian leg of their fall tour!
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Vivek Shraya’s mother prayed to god for sons, rooted in her fear of the misogyny and worldly weight she faced herself imposing on any future daughters. She got her wish, and had two sons. Shraya’s project Trisha documents her personal transition by recreating old photos of her mother. “This project felt like a way to honour my mother, but also, the daughter she never wanted, or rather, the daughter she wasn’t allowed to want,” she explains.
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Too Attached | April 29, 2016 | Pre-show
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Vivek Shraya reading poems from her new book Even This Page Is White.
Latitude 53. Edmonton, AB. 04/23/16.
Purchase the book: vivekshraya.com/books/even-this-page-is-white/
Photography & Artwork by Karen Campos Castillo
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In preparation for our upcoming summer shows, check out our new bonus track, Getalife, featured on Quick Before it Melts & Spill Magazine.
Artwork by Meera Sethi.
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her touch was a deep thawing, a permission to feel, a memory of heat lost long ago
SHE OF THE MOUNTAINS (vivek shraya) (via cosmicstruggle)
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From this week’s Songs You Need to Hear:
Vivek Shraya, ‘Girl It’s Your Time’
Earlier this month, Toronto artist Vivek Shraya made an announcement on Facebook: “35 today. New chapter. Using female pronouns. She & Her. Wrote a song … #GirlItsYourTime.” Also a filmmaker and author, Shraya had mostly only written about love in her music, while her other work explored themes like gender, sexuality, race and religion. “When I returned to music last year, I made sure it felt OK to write from a place of more honesty. The music industry has changed so much. There’s room for these conversations, of my struggles as a brown, queer artist.”
“Girl It’s Your Time” is a personal anthem for Shraya, a reflection of the bumpy ride transitioning to female pronouns. All proceeds from the single’s release will go to Supporting Our Youth’s Trans_Fusion Crew program, a grassroots drop-in group in Toronto that supports trans and questioning youth.
— Aparita Bhandari (@aparita)
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