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Questions tagged [representation]

This tag is for questions about the representation of minorities in writing. It is not about legal representation (e.g. by an agent or lawyer).

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How do you respectfully portray a character that cannot walk when they have the power to visit an alternate dimension where they can walk?

Context In my fantasy world, there are two realities that people travel back and forth between constantly. There is the "real world" where everyone travels when they are awake, and then there is the "dream world" where they all go when they are…
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Is it possible to write an emotional narrative in a game with player-made character?

I'm in the process of drafting a story for a single player game where the player controls their own made character. I'm planning for the game to have an emotional narrative but I cannot wrap my head around how to execute it story-wise when dealing…
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Writing a believable, and sensitive depiction of a mixed race relationship as someone who is culturally unfamiliar

Like many other people I've found through researching the topic I'm trying my best to depict someone who is of Indigenous American decent without falling into any harmful stereotypes and insensitivity towards the culture at large. I admittedly have…
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Is writing from the perspective of a 'severely' autistic character too hard?

I am fixing to write a story about a semiverbal level 2/3 autistic 12-year-old because this is a very underrepresented group, especially in the autistic community. I don't want it to be an overly sugarcoated story nor do I want it to be a dim…
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Properly writing characters with Dissociative Identity Disorder

In my story for a game, one of the main antagonists has Dissocistive Identity Disorder. His alters are already written, but I am asking for some advice on how to properly portrayed a character with such a disorder? For some character…
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Using Labels on Character Sexuality (to add subtle worldbuilding)

For my fantasy story, I was thinking of having the characters say their sexuality, but in a different way. In most stories that do representation right, they show it, but do not directly say it. For my world, they do say labels, but the twist: They…
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