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I’m Afraid of Men – Best of 2018 lists
posted on 1 December 2018 at 10:43 am
Thrilled to see I’m Afraid of Men on The Globe 100 as well as features on Quill & Quire‘s Best Books Covers of 2018 list, Bookriot‘s Best Audiobooks of 2018 list, and Flare Magazine and Toronto Star‘s holiday gift guides–all this week!
The Social (CTV)
posted on 28 October 2018 at 6:07 am
The Rumpus
posted on 26 October 2018 at 5:26 am
“A rhetoric that is often used to gain acceptance for difference is “we are all the same,” which has always been deeply frustrating to encounter, and so much of my work is about resisting this idea of sameness. Why is that the only way for humans to accept each other is by believing at the core we are all alike as opposed to celebrating the fact that we are all different, that it’s difference that makes humans beautiful?”
Full interview here.
Avenue Magazine – Top 40 Under 40 2018
posted on 24 October 2018 at 12:19 pm
The Paris Review: “Toward Creating a Trans Literary Canon”
posted on 23 October 2018 at 4:35 pm
Featuring even this page is white.
“Shraya’s poems, in their direct, critical stare, turn back the telescope on the white gaze.”
New Too Attached music video – “Diversity”
posted on 18 October 2018 at 4:36 pm
New interview in The Georgia Straight
posted on 18 October 2018 at 12:23 pm
“So often when readers engage with memoir or nonfiction or personal narrative, there’s still a healthy distance that the reader is able to preserve because…these narratives are in first person,” explains Shraya. “So a reader can slip in and out, and sort of disengage as they choose—put the book down, go to the washroom. For me, it felt really important that the reader was right there with me. If I was going to do the work of sharing this narrative, I really wanted it to feel like that the reader was just as accountable to me.”
Read full interview here.
“Why the time is now for Vivek Shraya’s ‘I’m Afraid of Men’” – The Globe and Mail
posted on 24 September 2018 at 10:37 am
New music video: “I’m Afraid of Men” Remix by Too Attached (feat. Peaches)
posted on 22 September 2018 at 12:33 am
“…The video is striking and sombre when we are introduced to plastic and, importantly, Shraya wrapped in that plastic. My pop cultural frame of reference immediately went to Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks. But this is not fiction: it reads as a very real comment on what happens to trans women and men. News stories or viral posts about the deaths of the trans men and women who have been murdered often miss the vital context of them as living, breathing humans.”
Full interview and video on Noisey.