For Artist And Author Vivek Shraya, The Internet Is Now A Canvas
The multidisciplinary artist has brought new visibility to Canada's trans community. Her new book, The Subtweet, chronicles a friendship between two musicians that implodes under online pressures.
Vivek Shraya's new novel, The Subtweet, follows the friendship of two brown women — Neela and Rukmini, both musicians — and how that friendship implodes over a single tweet.
The book couldn't have come at a more opportune time. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, Shraya, like many artists around the world, has taken her practice online — and in The Subtweet, she's examining Internet culture on the page just as she's grappling with it in her own life.
"When I was writing I was thinking about the ways we could all give each other the benefit of the doubt," Shraya says — something that doesn't happen in the book, where insecurities
