Vivek Shraya's Blog, page 9
September 14, 2017
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Free Times Cafe, September 2017
“The Con” Covers Album
Honoured to cover Tegan and Sara’s b-side “I Take All The Blame” from The Con for their cover album.
September 7, 2017
August 23, 2017
August 22, 2017
Broken Pencil features VS. Books
Toronto’s unstoppable Vivek Shraya — superstar musician, prolific writer, and committed force of community-building — has done it again. In partnership with Arsenal Pulp Books, a press that continually shows itself committed to social justice, Shraya is launching the imprint VS. Books.
August 21, 2017
August 3, 2017
Read Local BC & Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian feature VS. Books
The mandate of VS Books doesn’t specify a genre, form, or style. Vivek says she is “looking for writers that take risks, and for unpredictable stories.” Perhaps these writers will also embody a part of the imprint’s name: V.S. stands for the initials of Vivek Shraya, but Brian Lam, the publisher at Arsenal, also noted the way V.S. creates the double entendre of “versus,” which implies pushing against the norm.
August 1, 2017
Artist in Residence – Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Honoured to be Artist in Residence at this year’s Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
See events for more details.
July 26, 2017
New interview @ Feministing
Essentially, our culture is terrified of any gray area. Any ambiguity is threatening and uncomfortable, and consequently, many of us are not allowed to live the way we should be allowed to. This includes people within queer and trans communities that have these very defined ideas of what “gay” looks like and what “queer” looks like and what even “trans” looks like. I feel a responsibility to complicate those narratives. Circling back to the album, calling it Part Time Woman felt like a gesture in complicating this idea of womanhood.
Full interview here.
