When it comes to storytelling, we all want to write colorful worlds that reflect and represent our everyday experience, but navigating gender, race and marginalization along with managing our own assumptions can be hard when you try to do it without guidelines and awareness. From sensitivity readers to taboos, let’s talk about struggles, and what is or is not ours to depict, and how to recognize the difference. In this class, Azure Arther, college professor, playwright, and short story author, will lead discussion in the pitfalls of assumption, the benefits of beta and sensitivity readers, why subject matter experts matter, and more.
Date: October 26th
Time: 1PM ET