Anthony Dean-Harris is a writer, artist and radio personality whose work is recently involving more text-based visual art and, much like Tai’s description of Cher from Clueless, is a virgin who can’t drive.
Has LGBTQ+ identity influenced your creative output in any way?
I only came out to a slight degree about a year and a half ago (and we all know it’s a process), so my previous work never broached sexuality (you write about what you know … so I didn’t write about it).
Where do you see the role of artists within the realm of politics?
I see everything involving humanity as political since the root of the word means literally “having to do with people.” Therefore, art is inherently political since it acts as a commentary on people, no matter the condition or direct subject.
Has quarantine affected your work in any surprising ways?
This quarantine hit me in an odd time in my career as I have been moving away from mostly writing about jazz music to focusing my writing on more broad literary nonfiction and moving into more text-based visual art. It’s slow going, but I have been making a point of discovering who I want to be — as an artist, as a writer, as a queer person, as a Black man — when we all fully emerge into a new world.
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