Posts Tagged diversity in fiction
Should the Need for Diversity Become a Requirement? By Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Diversity on March 3, 2016
Should the Need for Diversity Become a Requirement? By Brad Windhauser 2016’s Oscar nominations generated a lot of controversy. In particular, the acting categories were deemed “too white” due to the complete lack of non-white nominees. Should the Academy have ensured that their nominations better represented diversity? I don’t want to enter this particular debate, […]
Writing “The Other”: Creating Characters Different than You by Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Writing The Other on November 3, 2015
Writing “The Other”: Creating Characters Different than You by Brad Windhauser Oh, I thought a woman had written this story…. You wrote this? But you’re white… I’ve heard these types of comments expressed during fiction workshops—and not always at me. There’s a compliment buried in these reactions—in theory, the author rendered a type of character […]
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