Is it considered cultural appropriation when authors write outside of ...

So as long as you respect the interpretation of the culture you wish to write about from the perspective of its people and you do your research ...

Cultural Appropriation for the Worried Writer: some practical advice

So, you're a writer and you're worried about writing outside your immediate experiences and identities. You hear people can get screamed at ...

Cultural Appropriation In Fiction: Here Are Some Tips To Consider ...

Ebonye Gussine Wilkins, CEO of Inclusive Media Solutions, writer, and sensitivity reader, calls this form of cultural appropriation in fiction “ ...

Is it cultural appropriation to create and write about characters of ...

That said, the gist of most of the discussions I've on the subject is “No, it's not appropriation, IF writers are responsible with how they ...

Is it cultural appropriation to write historical fiction with a character ...

The short answer is no. Not the way you are describing your intent. For it to be considered Cultural Appropriation you'd need to be ...

Whose life is it anyway? Novelists have their say on cultural ...

The injunction to refrain from “cultural appropriation” sounds like a call for censorship, or at best a warning to self-censor, an infringement ...

I Needed to Know if My Favorite Books Were Products of Cultural ...

Racism and cultural appropriation aside, every fiction writer aims to write a believable story. Fiction writing requires the exercise of ...

Cultural Appropriation (part 2): when authors crash and burn

Many authors – including many from minority communities, myself included – have publically stated that we have no problem with authors writing ...

Should Cultural Appropriation Get Approbation? | Dave Astor on ...

I think what we're seeing with cultural appropriation is a rejection of the New Criticism we older folk were taught in college. That is still my ...

Getting little details 'right' without cultural appropriation

As others have said, generally the term cultural appropriation is used to refer to misrepresentation or stealing of the stories, legends, art, ...

Cultural appropriation (part 3): when authors get it right | Vaseem Khan

Of course not. Any writer indulging in such shallow, self-serving behaviour deserves to be called out. But the argument against cultural ...

Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

A writer may want to keep her stories within the boundaries of her own community, but she can't practically—or easily—enforce this desire in ...

Writing Across Cultures - Writer Unboxed

Dave, thanks — but the logical extension of the 'cultural appropriation' viewpoint is that, just as writers should not write about cultures that ...

Cultural Appreciation vs. Cultural Appropriation: Why it Matters

Appropriation on the other hand, is simply taking one aspect of a culture that is not your own and using it for your own personal interest. Appropriation could ...

Cultural Appropriation - Fantasy-Writers.org

Cultural appropriation is a socio-political issue that denotes dominant cultures borrowing or stealing from marginalized cultures. A writer of ...

Cultural Appropriation in Writing: Why Authors Aren't Restricted to ...

My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their ...

Someone Else's Story: Cultural Appropriation in Fiction

A writer restricted to telling only of events they have personally experienced can barely make it around the block. Our literature would be ...

Writing Other Cultures: Promoting Diversity or Cultural Appropriation?

However, there is a faction of people that believes writing characters outside your culture is appropriation. This belief is understandable, ...

Cultural Appropriation: Some More Practical Advice | by Jeannette Ng

We talk about research and accuracy a lot when it comes to cultural appropriation, and more generally people writing outside their immediate ...

It's Messy in the Middle: Unpacking Cultural Appropriation - DIY MFA

Within the publishing world, cultural appropriation refers to the common (often clumsily and misinformed) practice of incorporating elements of ...