tolstoyevskywrites:Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous

tolstoyevskywrites:

Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous people of color. (x) (Creator’s instagram post)

This is a glorious infographic that’s catered specifically towards BIPOC in fiction/character development.  Which is so important, good representation and complex characterization is so important.

If anyone has doubts to the veracity of these problem-tropes, consider in women the ‘strong female character’ and the ‘manic pixie dreamgirl’  and the classic ‘madonna/whore’.  And most importantly the dominant ‘male gaze’ that forms all these problem-tropes.  

Then consider that there is such a thing as the ‘white gaze’.