Authors are willing to put in the time and effort to research what they consider relevant to the story and to their body of work, but having diverse and representative characters is not something they genuinely care about. It’s something they do to give their work a progressive packaging and make it sell.
Trending
- Cut Chilli: Irreverent comedy and cultural fusion in Sydney’s last pub theatre
- Fisher bike forgotten: save her from her misery
- Interviewing the artists behind Theatre & Music for a Free Palestine
- In conversation with Winnie Dunn on her debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (2024)
- We’ll always have The Paris End
- Birdeater (2023): Believe the poster, it is “feral”
- Why the Campus Access Policy stinks!
- Students at University of Melbourne rally against recent misconduct hearings