![]() ![]() In the fall of 2017, evidence of this hatred escalated when a stranger took to making death threats against her. In light of her growing profile, especially when she announced her transition in 2016, Vivek has also had endure the wrath of homophobic and transphobic haters online. ![]() ![]() ![]() Books, Arsenal's imprint dedicated to new Indigenous and Black writers and writers of color its inaugural title, Shut Up You're Pretty by Tea Mutonji, is being published this season as well. As an artist, her photo installation "Trisha," in which Vivek poignantly recreates photos of her mother in her youth, won wide acclaim in Canada in 2017 and made its US debut at New York's Ace Hotel in the summer of 2018. Vivek is also half of the music duo Too Attached, whose recent album Part Time Woman has been longlisted for the Polaris Prize, Canada's most prestigious music award. Another book, an essay entitled I'm Afraid of Men, is being published by Penguin Canada in the fall of 2018. The first graphic title by Vivek Shraya, the celebrated trans writer/musician/artist and the author of four previous books published by Arsenal: the YA illustrated story collection God Loves Hair (2014), the novel She of the Mountains (2014), the poetry collection even this page is white (2016) (Publishing Triangle Award for Trans Literature winner), and the children's picture book The Boy & the Bindi (2016). ![]()
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