For those of you attending Arisia this weekend who plan to attend the How to Write Diverse Characters panel (Sunday, 4PM, Douglas), this is a list of resources put together by our panelists:
Online Resources
- How Crose-Racial Scenes in Picture Books Build Acceptance
- Grace Lin’s TedX Talk
- Daniel Jose Older on Writing the Other
- SFWA: Transracial Writing for the Sincere
- Jim Hines on Writing the Other
- Tor.com: Non-binary pronouns
- Five Wrong-Headed Reasons for Not Writing Diverse Characters in Science Fiction
- What’s OK and Not OK to Ask a Trans Person
- Trans Girl Rage
- What’s the Deal with Trans Immigrants
- Trans Ethics
- The Carl Brandon Society
- The Dos and Don’ts of Writing About the Disabled
- Writing about Disability
Not directly related to writing, but still of interest: How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Recommended Reading
- Writing the Other, Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
- Invisible, ed. Jim C. Hines
- The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
- Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History by Corbett Joan OToole
Our Favorite Books Demonstrating Diversity
- Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley (positive representation of disability)
- Anything by Topside Press, but particularly A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett (positive trans representation)
- Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older (positive Hispanic and Afro-Caribbean representation)
- So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane (positive Hispanic representation)
An audience member noted that the upcoming Northeast Storytelling Conference is specifically about diversity.
And if you need to find someone to talk to about, well, anything, try Quora.com.
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