How Image Choices Can Stigmatize, Even When the Story is Responsible

Writers, editors and publishers can easily screw up in subtle but hurtful ways, wittingly or otherwise

Writing responsibly about sensitive topics can be challenging, given the evolution of language, changes in knowledge and cultural perception, and the ways in which characterizations that might’ve once seemed normal may come to offend. Or simply because we writers and editors are bound to be ignorant sometimes. We can’t know everything all the time all a…