The stories and characters TV writers create impact popular culture narratives, entertain audiences, and change minds.
As working TV writers, we understand the immense power we wield with our narratives. The stories and characters we create impact popular culture narratives, entertain audiences, and change minds. That is why we’ve partnered with a number of social justice researchers and organizations to produce #WriteInclusion Factsheets: Tips for Authentic Representation. Our highly vetted and research driven one-pagers help storytellers craft non-stereotypical representations about historically excluded characters and stories, and are designed as a tool to guide storytellers away from harmful stereotypes and call in more inclusive, authentic narratives.
This work transforms the expertise of community leaders and researchers – such as Storyline Partners, Color of Change, the ACLU, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC), GLAAD, and Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) – into easily accessible guidance that TV writers, executives, and producers can understand and immediately put to use. Globally, this work also strengthens relationships between content creators and community leaders to nurture emerging partnerships and more authentic, accurate storytelling practices.
While factsheets could never capture every experience, nuance, or truth of every community, they can assist in changing the way we tell stories in entertainment. Consider them the starting point of the conversation.
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