102 How to Write Diverse Characters with Eliana West
The Rebel Author Podcast
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Sensitivity Readers
My blackness is not some one else's blackness. My experience is not your experience. A sensitivity read isn't a chuck mark that you can go i see this mistake made so many times, where authors and publishers will say, but we did a sensitivity read, so no one should ever have a problem with this book. recognize hat if yif you're working with a publisher and your publisher has the sensitivity reader,. Make sure that your bater readers come from so different socio economic status, different parts of the country or the world that you're writing in. Because someone who reads my book who is actually fromth ot is going to have a different experience, or relate to my book
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