DISCUSSION: Diversity Episode

[PerplexedJam]

Maybe you should read through these threads and you might see why people feel the way they do about this particular subject.

Clearing Some Stuff Up About Race, POC, Diversity and Racism

I think a lot of people have been confused when it comes to race and racism, etc., so I’ve decided to make a thread clearing a few things up so that we can all be on the same page when we’re talking about how we can move forward as a community: Race and Ethnicity are two different things which often get mixed up. Ethnicity is much more narrow. Your ethnic identity is dependent on the country or culture from which you come. For example, a Jewish person can be religiously Jewish, ethnically Jew…

How Dark Skin Characters are Portrayed

So many authors (stories) do not care for black people. They forget a whole race exists. When stories allow you to customise the person I usually make them dark skinned, (mocha, rosewood). When I finally get to see my family… I quake in my boots, fam. It’s either… My parents and siblings are full on white My parents and siblings have ashy (white) lips It so frustrating that if that happens I immediately click off. Forgetting a race, people, exist? You don’t deserve attention. [image] This …

Diversity Standards: Your thoughts?

I personally have issues with the diversity standards in that I think that people fall into the trap of thinking that just adding in a few minority characters is enough to make your story more diverse. I think that diversity standards can do more harm than good when approached without education, so I was thinking of starting a thread so that we can help people tackle diversity in a sensitive way. Diversity standards on their own don’t work, in my opinion. We need to keep improving! I would love…

DISCUSSION : Races in Episode

I thought about this, as I was reading over a conversation where there was a reader complaining about how most of the background characters / main characters were white. The author’s argument was her story (not very clear however) took place in a part of the world (Britain) where 85+% of the population was white, and only about ~10% was Asain or Black. And even less was Indian or something other. When creating a story, should location be taken into account? Any other comments about the situat…