Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire
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Samuel Bailey's Withholding of Speech
Sensitivity readers specialist researchers used by some publishers now to check manuscripts for hidden assumptions or unconscious bias. Authors as varied as joanne harris and jamie oliver are happy to use them, but others have anxieties. The writer kate clancy parted company with her publisher after being accused of using racis tropes in a non- memoir. We thought we'd talk to a sensitivety reader, philippa willetts, who advises on disability and l g b t issues, and a writer who has misgivings about the whole idea. Ze hyde rahman, author of the prize winning novel,. ted by asking philippa to explain what it is
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