Vivek Shraya
Canadian writer, musician, and multidisciplinary artist, and a trans woman of Indo-Canadian background. Author of works including I'm Afraid of Men, The Subtweet, She of the Mountains, and God Loves Hair; also active as a professor and arts advocate.
Books
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1. People Change
A concise, reflective meditation on reinvention that blends memoir and cultural criticism to argue that transformation is not only natural but necessary. Through personal stories of identity, creativity, and performance, interwoven with mythology and pop culture examples, it explores why we fear change, how social pressures enforce sameness, and what it means to make room for evolution in ourselves and others. Both tender and provocative, it offers practical, compassionate prompts for embracing fluidity, releasing shame, and practicing curiosity as a path to becoming.
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2. She Of The Mountains
A lyrical, hybrid work that weaves retellings of Hindu goddesses with a contemporary coming-of-age narrative, following a young queer woman of South Asian descent as she navigates desire, family expectations, language, and exile; intimate, spare prose and mythic interludes illuminate the ache and joy of forging an identity between cultures and across generations.
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3. I'm Afraid Of Men.
A hybrid collection of personal essays and lyric reflection that interrogates masculinity, fear, and violence through the author's experiences as a queer, trans person of color; it blends memoir and cultural criticism to trace how male behavior shapes public and intimate spaces, recounting encounters with harassment and the legacy of boyhood while probing survival strategies, vulnerability, and possibilities for accountability and change.
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