I Won’t Envy
A podcast by Vivek Shraya co-produced with Buddies in Bad Times
I Won’t Envy is a new podcast series where award-winning artist Vivek Shraya has intimate one-on-one conversations with fellow artists working in various creative fields — including performance artist Alok, musician Sara Quin (from Tegan and Sara) and writer Alicia Elliott — who disclose their experiences with professional jealousy.
In Season 1, launching this fall, we’ll talk about when artists have felt most triggered, how they have managed (sometimes poorly) this feeling, and what they have learned from their jealousy.
I Won’t Envy is sponsored by the Queer and Trans Research Lab at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies – University of Toronto.
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion.
A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek is the creator and writer of the new CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar, which had its international premiere at Cannes. She has collaborated with musical icons Jann Arden, Peaches, and Jully Black, and was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and she is the founder of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books, (featured on CBC’s Canada Reads) which supports emerging BIPOC writers.
Vivek has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene, and she is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.
