“Representation matters”
For most of us, diversity is part of our everyday lives. We regularly interact with people from different backgrounds as we go about our day and never think too much about it.
True diversity often means having a boring, normal life and just being an average person. Rather than highlighting how out of the ordinary a non-white, non-upper-class, non-straight, differently abled person is, diverse fiction just drops in a character who didn’t come out of a Barbie box and presents them as a real, complex person, not just a stereotype or a sidekick.