YellowParenti [they/them]

:maturin-shining:

I’d add that a television writer’s room might have some class diversity, but ultimately any trauma-informed ideas need to gel with the room and the showrunner, and then somehow pass muster at the studio and network level. It’s the bodies in those executive roles that are most likely to have no experience or interest in those stories.

I think a huge exception is when a trauma-informed work is adapted - something like the memoir that became the Netflix show Maid. It helps that the tone is clear to everyone at the outset, they don’t need to spin the story into two or three seasons, and the underlying message is (I’m assuming) an American Dream success story.

Now she has a sweet place to put all her tools:

Sorry, these live rent-free in my head.