Vivek Shraya's Blog, page 19
September 23, 2016
new interview w/ Daily Xtra
“I’ve been brown my whole life. I haven’t had the privilege of not being named or not being labelled or not being seen.”
Full article here.
new blog post @ The Fold
Read about my experience bringing The Boy & the Bindi to Guy Weadick Elem. School in Calgary on The Festival of Literary Diversity blog.
September 11, 2016
September 8, 2016
Harper’s Bazaar India
Thrilled to see Trisha and The Boy & and The Bindi featured in the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
September 6, 2016
August 31, 2016
Ask & Answer Tour
In two weeks, Chase Joynt and I begin our ASK & ANSWER tour, performing from our new books across North America! So excited about this (and this poster by Karen Campos Castillo)! Hope to see you in some of these cities!
(We are also continuing to book dates for this tour. If you are interested in booking us please email: vivekshraya@gmail.com)
August 30, 2016
August 12, 2016
New review of “even this page is white” – This Magazine
“There is not a single moment in Vivek Shraya’s ‘even this page is white’ when the voice is still. There is a constant movement, a blur of energy, the placement and position of who is speaking superheroic…Shraya swings between examining her own complicity in a racist system while also holding space for her own oppression and the ways she has been wounded by it; and there is a profound kindness in the ever-swinging pendulum of this balance, at once interrogation and holding space…”
New review of even this page is white in current issue of This Magazine.
On newsstands!
