Hello you gorgeous individuals, it's Kav here and today I'm going to be
starting a brand new series on my channel. Anyone who has followed me for
even a second will know that one of my biggest goals in the book community is
to talk about diversity and talk about real issues. Whereas I do have a
diversity playlist on my channel that I will link below and link up here where
I have kind of sporadic diversity videos as issues come up in the community
or important days come up in society in general, I kind of wanted to find a way
to incorporate diversity into something more organized than just the random
sporadic videos that tend to come, so I came up with a brand new series called
diversity 101. The entire point of this series is to kind of educate you all
about diversity because I know that many allies and many people in general want
to help out with diversity, but they don't really know where to start and it is
somewhat inappropriate to go around just asking marginalized people to educate
you when you have so many resources on the internet, but I thought that since I
have the ability to, I could be a resource for you all so that you know
you have someone you can talk to - someone who has had personal experience with
this - to be there to educate you to the best of my ability. Before I even go on
with this series or with this video, I want to put the disclaimer that I am one
person, I can only speak for my experiences and the experiences I've
heard friends and family members tell me. I can't speak for everyone's experiences,
diverse people are not a monolith - no one group of people ever is - so the point of
this series is really just to give you as many basics as I'm capable of from
where I'm standing, so that you all can to the best of your ability contribute
to helping out diverse people. Now, even if you are a marginalized person you
probably have some sort of privilege and you could use some education on that or
maybe you just want to hear someone talk about diversity to see an experience
that might be different or similar to yours, so I think that this series will
be beneficial to everyone and hopefully it'll be beneficial to myself because
you all might have some more information that I myself don't know that you will
be able to comment down below, so I think that this will be a good experience for
everyone. Anyway, that was the longest intro ever, so let's jump
into the video.
This first video is kind of going to be concentrated on the big
question of what is diversity and what is representation because we talk
about the two a lot, but rarely do we actually define them for people who
don't know what they are. As a very, very. very, short one sentence summary
diversity is essentially variety and when we're talking about representing
diverse people and including diverse people in your books and in your forms
of media essentially what people are saying is that you need a variety or
various different types of people - for example, having people of different races
different religions, different genders, different sexualities, etc. - there is an
entire list of this. So diversity essentially means variety. Representation,
on the other hand, is the portrayal of something, so when someone is being
represented what is happening is that their identity is being shown in that
form of media. I want to clarify that these two things are different. You can
have diverse characters in your media, but they may not be represented. That
doesn't mean that you shouldn't have diverse characters and that's not that
I'm saying - I'm not saying you have to be all or nothing, but they are different
things and I want to clarify that because people conflate them all the
time and I know I'm guilty of doing that myself quite often, but the two are
different. They're not the same thing, they are different words for a reason
because they mean different things. When we talk about diversity in media what
we're basically saying is that your media needs to be more realistic.
Anywhere you go in the world, you are going to see different types of people,
even if you are in a quote/unquote "rural town in the south," you are going to see
different types of people. Now, certain places are more diverse than others - like
California is probably more diverse than a rural town in the
south, but that doesn't mean that there are not diverse people in those rural
towns. No two people are ever the same personality wise or appearance wise and,
often, this also extends to their identities, so trust me when I tell you
that wherever you go, you are going to find diverse people - even if it's one
person of color in ten they still deserve representation and they still
need to be in books. Now, as I said, you can have diverse characters in your
books without having representation. Having a diverse character is having a
brown person in your books, but if their culture isn't talked about and if
their background isn't talked about, it really isn't representation. Though that
character is diverse, they are not being represented - their identity or their
culture is not being portrayed. This does not mean you should not have diverse
characters in your book even if they're not being represented. For example, and
this is just for me personally, I know that if a white author and a
marginalized author were both writing books with people of color, I would
expect that the work of the marginalized author would be representation whereas
the work of the white author is more likely than not just diversity and that
doesn't mean that the white author should not be writing the people of
color characters in their book, it just means that it won't be the same as what
the marginalized author is doing. Now, this does not mean that privileged
authors do not provide representation because some of the best representation
that I have seen has come from privileged authors. And while we're
talking about this, I think we also need to talk about what privilege and
marginalization means and the difference between the two as well. If you are a
white allocishet man, that means you have privilege. If you are a black queer
woman, you don't have the same level of privilege. However, most of the time
people do not fall under every aspect of every category - that doesn't mean it
doesn't happen, but the majority of the time people tend to have parts of them
that are privileged and tend to have parts of them that are diverse.
For example, I am brown, but I also have financial privilege.
So I'm marginalized in my skin color, but I'm privileged in my financial situation,
so rarely does someone fall under either umbrella entirely. I think that a lot of
times in this community we try to separate the two, I've acknowledged this
in a previous video of mine, but I find that a lot of times we try to separate
the two and make them two different things and you can't necessarily do that
because there are so many nuances and intersectionalities that come into play
when we're talking about diversity - you can't say that marginalization and
privilege are opposites because rarely is someone entirely one or the other. Now
getting into representation, the difference between the diverse person of
color character and the represented person of color character, for lack of a
better term, is that the diverse person of color character is just a brown
character - their culture and their identity is not being showcased through whatever
form of media they are in. On the other hand, the person of color character that is
representation has their culture and their identity as a part of their
storyline - and that plays into their storyline and that plays into their
journey - and there is a difference between the two. Because the diverse
community has slowly started getting bigger and bigger, it's not giant yet but
it is slowly growing, many content creators want to have diversity, but they
want it for the wrong reasons. They want to have diversity to be able to check
off the checklist of having diversity. They don't do it because they genuinely
want to represent someone. And what I'm going to say right now is possibly the
most important thing I'm saying in this entire video - diversity for the sake of
diversity is not representation. If you are just including diversity in whatever
your media is because you want to appease the social justice warriors, then
that's not representation and that's really barely even diversity because you
are doing it for the wrong reasons. And I cannot stress that enough because it is
obvious when a content creator has just included diverse characters
because they wanted to check off a checklist and it is obvious when a
content creator has included diverse characters because they actually want to
represent them. You might not think that it's obvious because you might be
sitting in a different seat than I am, but trust me when I say that
marginalized people can tell the difference when they're consuming your
stories. Representation occurs when a content creator puts in the effort - they
do the research, they hire people to help them out and they give them pay for the
help they provide them (by this, I am talking about sensitivity readers and
those types of people who will be able to help you out) - because if you don't put
in the effort, then you're really not representing anyone if you didn't even
try. Now talking about trying, I also want to acknowledge one other thing. There is
a difference between trying and messing up and just being an asshole. Trying and
messing up means you put in the effort, but you messed up - which I myself have
done and I'm pretty sure every single member of this community will tell you
they've done that too - but just being an asshole means you don't even put in the
effort and you don't even want to try. In my one and a half years in this
community, I have never once met someone who hasn't messed up in some way, but
what you do when you mess up is: you learn what you did wrong, you apologize,
and you don't do it again. On the other hand, if you're just an asshole then you
will probably continuously mess up on the same things and you won't apologize
for them. And another thing I want to acknowledge is that if in your book you
have a mix of diverse characters and characters that have been represented,
that's completely different than someone who views diversity as a checklist. It is
hard to make sure that every single character in your book has been
represented. On the other hand, if you have a book with one black character or
with one gay character, you just have one diverse character - it's not even really a
diverse book because... nah that doesn't count okay. I think that
for an introduction to this series this video basically got at what I want to
say which is that diversity and representation are different and that is
what I wanted to emphasize with this video and to give you all a basic
understanding of what diversity and representation are and what it means to
try and what it means to just be an ass. As videos continue to come out they
probably will get more in depth, but I wanted to start off with something more
simple, so that I really was just giving a basic overview because the entire
point of this series is to try to be as simple as possible to really give people
the foundation of allyship before I get into all the nitty-gritty stuff with
nuances and intersections. If you are looking to be an ally, I have a video on
allyship that I will link down below, but here's the thing, we can only control
our own actions. We can't control the actions of someone else, no matter how
hard we might want to at times, so the only person who's in your control is you
and whereas you can try to correct people and educate people, they might not
always be receptive. So what I ask of you all is that you do your best. Thank you
all so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed this video. I know it was one
of my more serious ones, but I think that these videos need to be made because
whereas I love having my light videos where I just discuss books, I also want
to tackle important issues at the same time, so I'm trying to balance out my
channel with both styles of videos. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a
like and subscribe because that stuff makes me happy and please comment down
below if you have any other thoughts about this because, as I said, this was
very simple, so if you want to give some more detail or if you have any other
questions I can, to the best of my ability, try to answer them. As usual, all
of my social media and my goodreads will be in the description below if you'd like to
follow me anywhere else. Thank you all so much for watching. I hope you are having
a lovely day or night wherever you are. Please remember you're beautiful and
you deserve the world and I will see you all next week with a
brand new video. Goodbye!
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