Creative Storytelling in the Potrayal of Underrepresented Identities

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Feminism Practice, Queering, and Activism
How is creative storytelling, such as film and slam poetry, used to imagine and fashion new ideas, identities, and worlds?
Storytelling is a vital way of communicating with people on various topics. Creative storytelling, like slam poetry and film, often carries significant themes about societal issues like racism, same-sex relationships and class profiling. They are used to imagining and fashioning new ideas, topics and worlds on these and other social themes in various ways. Using comedy and entertainment to pass a serious theme like racial discrimination is one of them. Poets use established platforms like seminars and educational gatherings to tell the congregants about certain injustices. For example, the Latino girl and the African girls in the YouTube videos use their poetic talents on special stages to highlight racial discrimination and profiling (SlamFind; Buton Poetry).
Creative storytelling transport people into the story, changing their beliefs and practices. It attracts the audience's emotions, making them want to find out facts about a certain issue. The two YouTube poems target the audience's emotions, making them reflect on racial profiling (SlamFind; Buton Poetry). Films also target emotions making the audience imagine their lives in the film's setting. Therefore, creative storytelling mixes techniques like comedy, entertainment and emotional appeal to imagine and fashion new ideas and identities.
What roles do creative storytelling platforms play in portraying under-represented identities and communities?
The mass media is the most powerful creative storytelling platform, which is in various forms, including movie theatres, movie production studios, gaming, new dram televisions, live audience and social media. These platforms are crucial in portraying under-represented identities and communities. However, these media's sponsors, producers, owners and shareholders determine how the under-represented groups are portrayed. In...