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Friday, May 13 • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Beyond Bitches and Badasses: A Conversation About Race, Gender, and Power in SFF

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Combating unconscious bias in character development & casting is an important aspect of more inclusive writing. Pitfalls for writers new to incorporating marginalized people include the ways unconscious bias can intersect with race and gender to make them conflate common stereotypes with actual character development thuscontributing to fetishization and dehumanization. 
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Nebula Nominees
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Daniel Jose Older

Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Middle Grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot, The Book of Lost Saints, and the award winning Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher... Read More →
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Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong studies fiction in Raleigh, NC, and really, really likes crows. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others. Her short fiction has been nominated for multiple awards... Read More →

Friday May 13, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
LaSalle 1
  Professional Development

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