Creative Writing

I made a creative writing tool which manifested in a form of an application and play cards. The 60 word cards came from 60 analysed children’s books and were highly associated with a specific gender.

Often within a story, there are words or scenarios that can contain biases towards a particular character, group or situation. Determining if these words or scenarios were biased, often relies within the context they appear in. For example, when we say “beautiful” for a woman, it can be a positive thing on the other hand if you put it in the context like “she was beautiful and thats why she got a job”, it is negative. If we want to determine these words or scenarios as biased, we need to be aware of all the possible circumstances.

The purpose of this tool is to train people for different possibilities of using specific words for each gender. The exercise meant to teach the user to create less “biased” written contents. In this case, the definition of “bias” relies on the two categories that NLP defined as such.  

I provide the application thirty male and thirty female words.

It will be able to listen to the story the user create and detect these words and categorises them according to a certain gender.

From that, I can challenge the user to consider what gendered words they thought they used compared to the application's categorisation.