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Sensitivity Readers

By Joram Piatigorsky|2018-06-22T15:34:28-04:00January 12th, 2018|Categories: Perpectives|Tags: literary, New York Times, point of view, Sensitivity Readers|0 Comments

Reading the front-page article in the New York Times on “sensitivity readers, ” I was struck how the choice of words can have unintended consequences. Read the article and see if you agree with me. The issue is...sensitive. In brief, sensitivity readers screen for slurs, discrimination or ignorance of cultural realities for the purpose of [...]