DDW - S2 Ep12 - Using Racial Slurs, Acknowledging Characters’ Racial History, and Other End of Season Thoughts

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   This week’s episode page can be found here: https://representationmatters.art/2022/04/07/s2e12   Subscribe to our newsletter here and get out Doing Diversity in Writing Toolkit, including our Calm the F*ck Down Checklist and Cultural Appropriation Checklist: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r3p6g8    As always, we’d love for you to join the conversation by filling out our questionnaires.    Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Writer Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/UUEbeEvxsdwk1kuy5   Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Reader Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/gTAg4qrvaCPtqVJ36    Website: https://representationmatters.art Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doingdiversityinwriting YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHfIaeylIgbAWVy3E66lmw