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’.
If BIWOC readers, nonbinary BIPOC readers, plus size readers, and any readers who don’t fit conventional beauty standards could survive years reading fanfiction that only featured white women, y'all can handle reading fanfiction with BIWOC, nonbinary BIPOC, plus sized, etc. leads!
