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

  • Apr 7 2022
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
  • Podcast

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

  • Summary

  • 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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