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>Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the pre-publication
by MrMember 4y ago
>Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the pre-publication missteps of authors who don't share the same traits—or "lived experience," to use a favored buzzword—as their characters.
Sounds like a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Write what you know and you'll get crucified for a lack of diversity. Write outside your race, gender, or lived experienced and you'll get crucified for it too.
- Sebguer 4y agoHow do you come to this conclusion from the quoted paragraph? The literal entire point is to help enable people who are writing outside their race, gender, and lived experience to write convincingly.
- _vertigo 4y agoThis was discussed in the article. > Within the writing community, the practice was more complicated. In theory, sensitivity readers were a way to write outside your identity without causing offense by "getting it wrong." But the emerging consensus, especially in Y.A., was that it was even more wrong to stray outside your lane in the first place. In a particularly revealing 2018 feature on the culture website Vulture, a sought-after sensitivity reader expressed profound contempt for the authors whose manuscripts she was paid to vet.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoA lot of workers have contempt for their bosses it doesn't invalidate their job.
- kixiQu 4y agoThe comment does reflect the conclusion the article comes to. (I myself do disagree with the article and believe that there is a good function these readings perform, but the replied-to comment is certainly in line with the piece and website's whole...deal)
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