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    God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition
    God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition
    God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition
    Ebook68 pages47 minutes

    God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition

    By Vivek Shraya, Juliana Neufeld and Cherie Dimaline

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    In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; in the ten years since, Vivek has published six more titles including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children’s picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic.

    God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories that follows a tender, intelligent, and curious child as they navigate the complex realms of gender creativity, queerness, brownness, religion, and belonging. This tenth-anniversary edition includes a foreword by award-winning YA writer Cherie Dimaline (The Marrow Thieves), as well as additional a new preface, story, and illustrations.

    Told with the poignant insight and honesty that only the voice of a young mind can convey, God Loves Hair is a moving and ultimately joyous portrait of the resiliency of youth.

    Ages 12 and up.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9781551528144
    God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition
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    Vivek Shraya

    Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel.” She is the founder of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books that supports emerging BIPOC writers. A seven-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Shraya lives in Treaty 7 territory, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary.

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    • 3/5
      An illustrated short story compilation about coming of age in a Hindu family in Canada and exploring gender identity questions.
    • 4/5
      will i ever dislike anything vivek shraya has ever written?

      not today.

      i loved this. <3 beautiful illustrations. beautiful vignettes. beautiful everything.

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    God Loves Hair - Vivek Shraya

    Painting of a woman with very long hair like waves of a sea where a sail boat is sailing on it with the sun shining bright on it.

    PREFACE

    Art has been my greatest teacher. Although my work is frequently categorized as being about identity (as opposed to work by non-brown, non-queer artists, which is … identity free), often the opposite is true: the art I make shapes, and even creates, my identity. This is especially true of God Loves Hair. Back when I first self-published the book in 2010, I identified as male. I dedicated the book to the boy who was almost lost. Some readers have generously interpreted the book as a trans narrative, but when I wrote it, I had no idea that it was a ship sailing me towards Transgender Island. The art was ahead of me. It’s almost like I felt that I could convey something about myself on the page before I could express it as a

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