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DDW - S2 Ep12 - Using Racial Slurs, Acknowledging Characters’ Racial History, and Other End of Season Thoughts
- 2022/04/07
- 再生時間: 1 時間 1 分
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あらすじ・解説
In this episode of Doing Diversity in Writing, we—Bethany and Mariëlle—bring our season on Race and Ethnicity to an end by delving into some lingering some questions.
What we talked about
- If and how to use racial slurs in our writing
- When and how to acknowledge our characters’ racial history
- Whether authors are allowed to write POV characters belonging to a different community
- Co-writing with BIPOC authors as a white author
- The representation of Asian masculinity in Western media
- Being accused of being too political when including a diverse cast in our books
- How to make your cast more diverse when your characters aren’t human
(Re)sources mentioned on the show
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe: https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline
- The Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon: https://www.nps.gov/ocmu/index.htm
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9376612
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528
- Crazy Rich Asians: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3104988
- Nora Phoenix’s White House Men series: https://noraphoenix.com/my-books/
- Finding Nemo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543
- Mariëlle’s 52 Weeks of Writing Author Journal and Planner: https://mswordsmith.nl/journal
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