She has twice been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, and was the recipient of the 2015 South Asia Book Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature for her debut collection of short stories, God Loves Hair. Her works often explore themes of religion, sexuality, gender, identity, and race through an intersectional lens. She has served as creator and collaborator for four short films: Seeking Single White Male, 2010 Ache in My Name, 2011 What I Love about Being Queer, 2012 and Holy Mother My Mother, 2014, as well as three visual art pieces: Trisha (2016), Your Cloud (2015), and Heartbeats (2013). She is one-half of the music duo Too Attached, which released its debut record Bronze earlier this year, and has also released several solo albums. She is the author of God Loves Hair, 2010 She of the Mountains, 2014 even this page is white, 2016 The Boy and the Bindi, 2016, and has published several essays. Vivek Shraya is a Toronto-based artist whose works span many genres, disciplines, and modes, including those of poetry, fiction, film, music, visual art, and criticism.
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