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Maria Qamar, a Desi artist based in Canada, gave an interview for Dazed about her process, cultural appropriation, and much more: “It is really funny, because the whole point of this pop-art Indian thing was so that I could take the most American – the most western thing – I could find, which were American romance comics or novels. I wanted to take the most iconic thing, which is the soap opera, and blend them together. Right now it feels like I’m taking their shit and throwing it back at them, saying, ‘Here it is, you made this. This is all you.’”

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We can beautifully fracture our surfaces when we are challenged to confront what appear to be the limits of our selves. This is what working in collaboration means to me.”–Poet Dawn Lundy Martin

Charli XCX says her documentary, “The F Word and Me” is exploring how “the question ‘whats it like to be a woman in the music industry’ is annoying/complex but still necessary.” Continue reading

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The trauma of watching racist and sexist moments, and reliving them on my timeline with various captions attached, didn’t feel good; it magnified the sociopolitical anxieties of everyday life.”–Rawiya Kamier on what was wrong with MTV’s 2015 Video Music Awards

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