Moving beyond the token minority
Amal Awad |
TEDxMacquarieUniversity
• September 2019
Popular culture - particularly film and TV, -struggle to portray fictional worlds that reflect the diversity of the real one. In the push for more diverse storytelling, however, the task is not simply to tick boxes and represent minorities, but to normalise. More minority storytellers delivers a diversity of rich storytelling that goes beyond stereotypes and trauma tales.