**Please listen to Three Black Halflings!**

**Please also listen to this panel of POC creators talking about race in D&D and check out their content linked in the video’s description**

Drow Lore - [x] [x] [x]

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (3e) - [x]

Faiths and Pantheons (3.5e) - [x]

The Drow of the Underdark (2e) - [x]

Drow of the Underdark (3.5e) - [x]

Gygax Statements - [x] [x] [x] [x]

Inspirations for Drow + Drow Matriarchy

Mammal Study - [x]

Melnibonéan + Poul Anderson - [x]

The Fairy Mythology - [x]

The Secret Commonwealth - [x]

Scandinavia - [x]

Spiders - [x] [x]

Theropods - [x] [x] [x]

Matriarchy

D&D Monster Matriarchies - [x]

Discourse on Evil Matriarchies -[x]

Egalitarianism - [x]

History and Theory - [x] [x] [x] [x]

Mosuo - [x] [x]

Unilinear Cultural Evolution (Debunked stages of human social organization) - [x] [x]

Queen Heide Gottner-Abdenroth - [x]

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Further Reading

If you want to learn more about the drow’s racial connotations, give these sources a read!

[x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]

Special thanks to Kim Wincen for the last link and adding to the list of POC creators talking about the issues of race in D&D!

Lastly, here is a 2020 article published by Wizards of the Coast on how they are trying to do better with diversity.