Twenty-eight Native American and Indigenous writersare calling on Hollywood to "commit to advancing" Native and Indigenous representation in a new open letter, circulated onIndigenous Peoples' Day.
The letter, signed by members of the Writers Guild of America West's Native American & Indigenous Writers Committee, argues that Native and Indigenous creatives "are often excluded from industry-wide diversity promises and rolled into the BIPOC acronym without recognition that Native and Indigenous people have a specific, necessary voice within this country" and that amid an ongoing reckoning over race in America, "now is the time to make amends for inadequate representation." Signatories include Deputy writer Anthony Florez, Final Space.
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