![]() ![]() Mootoo earned a Fine Arts BFA Degree at the University of Western Ontario in 1980 and an MA in English and Theatre from the University of Guelph, 2010. As an adult, Mootoo has discussed being sexually assaulted by one of her grandfather's friends. She claims that she came back to writing accidentally and expressed a worry that she was not a writer but a painter first. She has also said that her parents worried for what those themes might mean for her future, which is why she put her words away and chose to paint instead. According to Mootoo, her parents were upset by some of her earliest poems because they described love between two men or love between two women. Mootoo's father, Ramesh Mootoo, was a medical family doctor and Trinidadian politician much of Shani Mootoo's personal and literary life has been focused on political activism. ![]() Her early efforts were encouraged by her mother Indra ( née Samaroo). At an early age Mootoo showed a talent for drawing, painting, and writing, and expressed interest in becoming an artist at the age of 10. ![]()
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