Cultural Consent

Guidance on negotiating consent across cultural backgrounds, family expectations and differing norms while prioritising individual autonomy.

Practical tips

• Ask open questions about comfort and family norms before intimate scenes.
• Use private, non-judgemental language to allow people to express refusal.

Culture & Representation

• When writing characters from different cultural backgrounds, pair consent negotiation with cultural research. Avoid treating cultural practices as exotic props.
• Use tools like the [Representation Tests](./representation_tests.md) to spot absent or tokenised characters. Failing a simple test is a prompt to ask whether characters from the culture have agency and narrative presence beyond being a setting or moral lesson.