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8 Biggest Takeaways From Variety’s Changemakers Summit

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Variety on Tuesday for the Changemakers Virtual Summit, dedicated to profiling people making positive social impact in the entertainment industry.

Over the course of the day, Variety writers and editors spoke with prominent industry figures about mental health in television storytelling, improving representation both on-screen and off-screen, challenges that diversity and inclusion initiatives can face today and much more.Here are the eight biggest takeaways from this year’s Variety Changemakers Summit.‘Normalizing the Marginalized’ Is the Way Forward for Representation While it’s no individual creator’s job to change the landscape of representation in media, it’s crucial to accept that changing the culture is an aspect of the job, said actor-producer David Oyelowo during the Stereotypes in Storytelling panel with senior awards editor Clayton Davis.

Oyelowo specifically elaborated on his experience of being touted as a bastion of “diversity and inclusion,” even though he dislikes that term and thinks of his cultural responsibility as tangential to making great art. “The thing that keeps me going is I pray that beyond my time on this earth what will have been achieved is normalizing the marginalized,” Oyelowo said. “To get to the point where we are normalized in a way where that conversation is eroded and my kids don’t have to deal with it in the same way, that’s the win… For all of us on this panel, we’ve just had to come to an acceptance that that’s part of what we are tasked with.

We love telling stories, we love our jobs, we love the people we get to interact with, we love the cultural impact it gets to have, but a tangential part of our job is normalizing the marginalized.

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