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-# Diversity and Inclusion
-
-## Overview
-
-Inclusive storytelling creates richer narratives, broader audience connection, and authentic representation. This guide provides frameworks for creating diverse, respectful, and authentic characters and stories.
-
-## The Bechdel Test
-
-### Definition
-A work passes the Bechdel Test if it meets three criteria:
-1. It has at least two named female characters
-2. Who talk to each other
-3. About something other than a man
-
-### Purpose
-- Minimum baseline for female representation
-- Highlights gender imbalance in storytelling
-- Not a measure of quality, but of representation
-
-### Beyond the Bechdel Test
-**Other Representation Tests**:
-- **Vito Russo Test** (LGBTQ+ representation)
-- **DuVernay Test** (racial representation in positions of power)
-- **Riz Test** (Muslim representation)
-- **Mako Mori Test** (female character arcs)
-
-### Application
-- Use as starting point, not endpoint
-- Consider intersectionality
-- Evaluate quality of representation, not just presence
-- Apply across all marginalized groups
-
-## Authentic Representation
-
-### Research and Consultation
-**Best Practices**:
-- Consult members of represented communities
-- Hire sensitivity readers
-- Research cultural practices and history
-- Avoid relying on stereotypes
-- Listen to feedback
-
-**Resources**:
-- Cultural consultants
-- Community organizations
-- Academic research
-- First-person accounts
-- Sensitivity readers
-
-### Avoiding Tokenism
-**Tokenism Indicators**:
-- Single representative of entire group
-- Character exists only to serve majority characters
-- No character development or arc
-- Stereotypical portrayal
-- No agency or complexity
-
-**Solutions**:
-- Multiple characters from underrepresented groups
-- Give characters their own goals and arcs
-- Show diversity within groups
-- Avoid making identity the only character trait
-- Create fully realized individuals
-
-## Stereotypes to Avoid
-
-### Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes
-**Common Harmful Tropes**:
-- Magical Negro (Black character exists to help white protagonist)
-- Model Minority (Asian characters as uniformly successful)
-- Spicy Latina (Latina characters as fiery/sexual)
-- Noble Savage (Indigenous characters as mystical/primitive)
-- Terrorist (Middle Eastern characters as threats)
-
-**Better Approach**:
-- Create complex, individualized characters
-- Show diversity within racial/ethnic groups
-- Avoid reducing characters to cultural stereotypes
-- Give characters agency and depth
-- Consult with community members
-
-### Gender Stereotypes
-**Harmful Tropes**:
-- Damsel in Distress (woman needs rescuing)
-- Manic Pixie Dream Girl (quirky woman exists to inspire man)
-- Shrew/Nag (woman as obstacle to man's happiness)
-- Born Sexy Yesterday (naive woman with childlike innocence)
-- Smurfette Principle (one woman among many men)
-
-**Better Approach**:
-- Women with agency and goals
-- Complex female characters with flaws
-- Women in diverse roles and professions
-- Female friendships and relationships
-- Women as protagonists, not accessories
-
-### LGBTQ+ Stereotypes
-**Harmful Tropes**:
-- Bury Your Gays (LGBTQ+ characters die for plot)
-- Gay Best Friend (exists to support straight protagonist)
-- Predatory Lesbian/Gay Panic
-- Tragic Queer (suffering as only narrative)
-- Deceptive Transgender Person
-
-**Better Approach**:
-- LGBTQ+ characters with happy endings
-- Characters whose identity isn't their only trait
-- Diverse LGBTQ+ representation
-- Authentic relationships and experiences
-- Consult LGBTQ+ writers and consultants
-
-### Disability Stereotypes
-**Harmful Tropes**:
-- Inspiration Porn (disabled person inspires able-bodied people)
-- Magical Disability (disability grants special powers)
-- Better Off Dead (death preferable to disability)
-- Cure Narrative (disability must be "fixed")
-- Bitter Disabled Person
-
-**Better Approach**:
-- Disabled characters as full people
-- Disability as part of identity, not defining trait
-- Authentic portrayal of lived experience
-- Consult disabled actors and writers
-- Show accommodations and accessibility
-
-## Cultural Sensitivity
-
-### Religious Representation
-**Guidelines**:
-- Research religious practices accurately
-- Avoid conflating religion with extremism
-- Show diversity within religious communities
-- Respect sacred practices and symbols
-- Consult religious scholars and practitioners
-
-### Language and Dialect
-**Best Practices**:
-- Use authentic language patterns
-- Avoid phonetic spellings that mock
-- Research regional and cultural speech
-- Don't use dialect to indicate intelligence
-- Consult native speakers
-
-### Cultural Practices
-**Respectful Portrayal**:
-- Research cultural significance
-- Avoid cultural appropriation
-- Show practices in context
-- Respect sacred or private traditions
-- Consult cultural experts
-
-## Intersectionality
-
-### Definition
-Recognition that people have multiple, overlapping identities that create unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.
-
-### Application
-**Consider**:
-- Race + Gender
-- Disability + Sexual Orientation
-- Class + Ethnicity
-- Age + Gender Identity
-- Religion + Race
-
-**Avoid**:
-- Single-axis representation
-- Assuming universal experiences within groups
-- Ignoring how identities interact
-- Simplifying complex identities
-
-## Power and Representation
-
-### Who Tells the Story?
-**Questions to Ask**:
-- Who has creative control?
-- Whose perspective is centered?
-- Who benefits from this story?
-- Are we perpetuating harm?
-- Have we consulted affected communities?
-
-### Representation in Roles
-**Beyond Characters**:
-- Writers from diverse backgrounds
-- Directors and producers
-- Crew members
-- Consultants and advisors
-- Decision-makers
-
-## Inclusive Storytelling Techniques
-
-### Normalization
-**Approach**:
-- Diverse characters in everyday roles
-- Identity not always central to plot
-- Casual representation
-- Diverse backgrounds as default
-
-**Example**:
-- Doctor happens to be in wheelchair
-- Same-sex couple as neighbors
-- Protagonist's best friend is Muslim
-- Identity present but not plot point
-
-### Authentic Conflict
-**Guidelines**:
-- Conflict from character, not stereotype
-- Avoid trauma porn
-- Show resilience and joy
-- Balance struggle with triumph
-- Respect lived experiences
-
-### Positive Representation
-**Balance**:
-- Show challenges authentically
-- Include moments of joy and success
-- Avoid only tragic narratives
-- Celebrate culture and identity
-- Provide hope and empowerment
-
-## Best Practices
-
-### DO
-✅ Research thoroughly and consult experts
-✅ Hire diverse writers and consultants
-✅ Create complex, individualized characters
-✅ Show diversity within groups
-✅ Give underrepresented characters agency
-✅ Include casual, normalized representation
-✅ Listen to feedback from communities
-✅ Show intersectional identities
-✅ Balance challenge with joy
-✅ Question your assumptions
-
-### DON'T
-❌ Rely on stereotypes or tropes
-❌ Create token characters
-❌ Make identity the only character trait
-❌ Appropriate cultural practices
-❌ Ignore intersectionality
-❌ Assume universal experiences
-❌ Write trauma without research
-❌ Ignore feedback from represented communities
-❌ Perpetuate harmful narratives
-❌ Claim to speak for entire groups
-
-## Resources
-
-### Organizations
-- GLAAD (LGBTQ+ representation)
-- Geena Davis Institute (gender representation)
-- Color of Change (racial justice in media)
-- RespectAbility (disability representation)
-- Muslim Public Affairs Council (Muslim representation)
-
-### Guidelines
-- GLAAD Media Reference Guide
-- Conscious Style Guide
-- Disability Language Style Guide
-- Indigenous Peoples' Style Guide
-
+# Diversity and Inclusion
+
+## Overview
+
+Inclusive storytelling creates richer narratives, broader audience connection, and authentic representation. This guide provides frameworks for creating diverse, respectful, and authentic characters and stories.
+
+## The Bechdel Test
+
+### Definition
+A work passes the Bechdel Test if it meets three criteria:
+1. It has at least two named female characters
+2. Who talk to each other
+3. About something other than a man
+
+### Purpose
+- Minimum baseline for female representation
+- Highlights gender imbalance in storytelling
+- Not a measure of quality, but of representation
+
+### Beyond the Bechdel Test
+**Other Representation Tests**:
+- **Vito Russo Test** (LGBTQ+ representation)
+- **DuVernay Test** (racial representation in positions of power)
+- **Riz Test** (Muslim representation)
+- **Mako Mori Test** (female character arcs)
+
+### Application
+- Use as starting point, not endpoint
+- Consider intersectionality
+- Evaluate quality of representation, not just presence
+- Apply across all marginalized groups
+
+## Authentic Representation
+
+### Research and Consultation
+**Best Practices**:
+- Consult members of represented communities
+- Hire sensitivity readers
+- Research cultural practices and history
+- Avoid relying on stereotypes
+- Listen to feedback
+
+**Resources**:
+- Cultural consultants
+- Community organizations
+- Academic research
+- First-person accounts
+- Sensitivity readers
+
+### Avoiding Tokenism
+**Tokenism Indicators**:
+- Single representative of entire group
+- Character exists only to serve majority characters
+- No character development or arc
+- Stereotypical portrayal
+- No agency or complexity
+
+**Solutions**:
+- Multiple characters from underrepresented groups
+- Give characters their own goals and arcs
+- Show diversity within groups
+- Avoid making identity the only character trait
+- Create fully realized individuals
+
+## Stereotypes to Avoid
+
+### Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes
+**Common Harmful Tropes**:
+- Magical Negro (Black character exists to help white protagonist)
+- Model Minority (Asian characters as uniformly successful)
+- Spicy Latina (Latina characters as fiery/sexual)
+- Noble Savage (Indigenous characters as mystical/primitive)
+- Terrorist (Middle Eastern characters as threats)
+
+**Better Approach**:
+- Create complex, individualized characters
+- Show diversity within racial/ethnic groups
+- Avoid reducing characters to cultural stereotypes
+- Give characters agency and depth
+- Consult with community members
+
+### Gender Stereotypes
+**Harmful Tropes**:
+- Damsel in Distress (woman needs rescuing)
+- Manic Pixie Dream Girl (quirky woman exists to inspire man)
+- Shrew/Nag (woman as obstacle to man's happiness)
+- Born Sexy Yesterday (naive woman with childlike innocence)
+- Smurfette Principle (one woman among many men)
+
+**Better Approach**:
+- Women with agency and goals
+- Complex female characters with flaws
+- Women in diverse roles and professions
+- Female friendships and relationships
+- Women as protagonists, not accessories
+
+### LGBTQ+ Stereotypes
+**Harmful Tropes**:
+- Bury Your Gays (LGBTQ+ characters die for plot)
+- Gay Best Friend (exists to support straight protagonist)
+- Predatory Lesbian/Gay Panic
+- Tragic Queer (suffering as only narrative)
+- Deceptive Transgender Person
+
+**Better Approach**:
+- LGBTQ+ characters with happy endings
+- Characters whose identity isn't their only trait
+- Diverse LGBTQ+ representation
+- Authentic relationships and experiences
+- Consult LGBTQ+ writers and consultants
+
+### Disability Stereotypes
+**Harmful Tropes**:
+- Inspiration Porn (disabled person inspires able-bodied people)
+- Magical Disability (disability grants special powers)
+- Better Off Dead (death preferable to disability)
+- Cure Narrative (disability must be "fixed")
+- Bitter Disabled Person
+
+**Better Approach**:
+- Disabled characters as full people
+- Disability as part of identity, not defining trait
+- Authentic portrayal of lived experience
+- Consult disabled actors and writers
+- Show accommodations and accessibility
+
+## Cultural Sensitivity
+
+### Religious Representation
+**Guidelines**:
+- Research religious practices accurately
+- Avoid conflating religion with extremism
+- Show diversity within religious communities
+- Respect sacred practices and symbols
+- Consult religious scholars and practitioners
+
+### Language and Dialect
+**Best Practices**:
+- Use authentic language patterns
+- Avoid phonetic spellings that mock
+- Research regional and cultural speech
+- Don't use dialect to indicate intelligence
+- Consult native speakers
+
+### Cultural Practices
+**Respectful Portrayal**:
+- Research cultural significance
+- Avoid cultural appropriation
+- Show practices in context
+- Respect sacred or private traditions
+- Consult cultural experts
+
+## Intersectionality
+
+### Definition
+Recognition that people have multiple, overlapping identities that create unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.
+
+### Application
+**Consider**:
+- Race + Gender
+- Disability + Sexual Orientation
+- Class + Ethnicity
+- Age + Gender Identity
+- Religion + Race
+
+**Avoid**:
+- Single-axis representation
+- Assuming universal experiences within groups
+- Ignoring how identities interact
+- Simplifying complex identities
+
+## Power and Representation
+
+### Who Tells the Story?
+**Questions to Ask**:
+- Who has creative control?
+- Whose perspective is centered?
+- Who benefits from this story?
+- Are we perpetuating harm?
+- Have we consulted affected communities?
+
+### Representation in Roles
+**Beyond Characters**:
+- Writers from diverse backgrounds
+- Directors and producers
+- Crew members
+- Consultants and advisors
+- Decision-makers
+
+## Inclusive Storytelling Techniques
+
+### Normalization
+**Approach**:
+- Diverse characters in everyday roles
+- Identity not always central to plot
+- Casual representation
+- Diverse backgrounds as default
+
+**Example**:
+- Doctor happens to be in wheelchair
+- Same-sex couple as neighbors
+- Protagonist's best friend is Muslim
+- Identity present but not plot point
+
+### Authentic Conflict
+**Guidelines**:
+- Conflict from character, not stereotype
+- Avoid trauma porn
+- Show resilience and joy
+- Balance struggle with triumph
+- Respect lived experiences
+
+### Positive Representation
+**Balance**:
+- Show challenges authentically
+- Include moments of joy and success
+- Avoid only tragic narratives
+- Celebrate culture and identity
+- Provide hope and empowerment
+
+## Best Practices
+
+### DO
+✅ Research thoroughly and consult experts
+✅ Hire diverse writers and consultants
+✅ Create complex, individualized characters
+✅ Show diversity within groups
+✅ Give underrepresented characters agency
+✅ Include casual, normalized representation
+✅ Listen to feedback from communities
+✅ Show intersectional identities
+✅ Balance challenge with joy
+✅ Question your assumptions
+
+### DON'T
+❌ Rely on stereotypes or tropes
+❌ Create token characters
+❌ Make identity the only character trait
+❌ Appropriate cultural practices
+❌ Ignore intersectionality
+❌ Assume universal experiences
+❌ Write trauma without research
+❌ Ignore feedback from represented communities
+❌ Perpetuate harmful narratives
+❌ Claim to speak for entire groups
+
+## Resources
+
+### Organizations
+- GLAAD (LGBTQ+ representation)
+- Geena Davis Institute (gender representation)
+- Color of Change (racial justice in media)
+- RespectAbility (disability representation)
+- Muslim Public Affairs Council (Muslim representation)
+
+### Guidelines
+- GLAAD Media Reference Guide
+- Conscious Style Guide
+- Disability Language Style Guide
+- Indigenous Peoples' Style Guide
+