I try to not write in the perspective of a serious viewpoint I do not know about. And when I say that I think I mean to say the main theme of the piece. I will not write a story about racism from the perspective of the POC person, because I have not experienced racism despite being technically a POC (it’s a bit complicated, I am a POC but am definitely white passing and would say I have white privilege). However, I might in the future make a story about racism using my notions of it. I wouldn’t feel comfortable writing about it from a POC perspective- I’d rather leave that to a POC instead of making my own story about it.
That being said, I do tend to write dark fantasy and overall kinda strangely in general portraying things that I definitely have not experienced. Sometimes serious stuff such as death that I honestly haven’t really done my research on. But I find that those pieces usually center around myself or what I want to portray. Such as anxiety, isolation, etc… Despite my stories often being so wildly out of the box sometimes, I find that they still are about me. And a lot of them are up for interpretation. I wouldn’t be able to do the same thing with racism as I have done with anxiety.
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