In this final episode of the first season of Doing Diversity in Writing, we—Bethany and Mariëlle—discuss holy days and answer some listener questions.
More specifically, we talk about:
And we answer the following questions:
Some quotes from this week’s episode:
“Reading and researching can only go so far, but it gets you further and further these days.”
“A really good way to not check boxes is to give every character their own personality and to start from that personality.”
“Saying ‘happy holidays’ is not a war against Christmas, it’s a war against excluding language.”
“It’s important to look closely at any holiday and realize that it is in fact a story. And story does something. So what does this story do?”
And here are the (re)sources we mentioned on the show:
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