Sensitivity Reading
Is your manuscript a little unhinged? Most normies can’t handle what you’re writing? I’m not here to censor you. I’m here to help you accurately represent marginalized groups. I can ensure your content deeply maintains ethical integrity, authentic insight, and of course, niche respect.
Authenticity for:
- Mental illness & neurodivergence: anxiety, depression, social anxiety, dysthymia, Borderline
- Personality Disorder, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger’s syndrome, eating disorders
- Nonbinary & pansexual
- LGBTQIA+ community
- Meditation & spirituality
- Agnostic & atheist
- Abuse: mental, verbal, sexual
- Suicide
- Self-derogatory severe negativity
- Self-harm
- Severe isolation, loneliness & solitude
- Hispanic POC community
- Inner city ghetto, poverty & housing displacement
- Psychedelic drug use
- Party drug use & marijuana addiction
- Club, rave & concert scenes
- Sex: teasing, casual, romantic, dirty, one night stands, etc.
- Nomad & gypsy lifestyle
- Dysfunctional family
- Cursing
Genres:
Fiction: Literary realism, literary fiction, poetry, coming of age, psychological drama, academic and campus, first-person narrative, YA, social, political, environmental, intellectual romanticism, memoir-style, fictional autobiographical, short stories, anything similar to these.
Nonfiction: Creative, narrative, essay, poetry, autobiography, memoir, sociocultural criticism, nature, spiritual, self-help, blogs, newsletters, book summaries, emails, etc.
I’ll read anything with deep introspection, emotional depth, and thematic complexity. I’m sorry, but unless you can convince me, I won’t read sci-fi or fantasy.
Feedback includes:
- Not softening the blow of your content
- Accurate representation
- Identifying stereotypes & biases
- Explaining why stereotype is harmful
- Checking blind spots
- Suggestions
- Product review (if desired)
- Etc.
This service does not include proofreading and does not include editing. This is simply reading your work from a marginalized human’s perspective. This service is priced per project to help meet each person’s financial individuality.
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- I will not lose or damage any part of a manuscript.
- I will not introduce an error into the correct text.
- I will not impose on the author’s personal style of writing.
- I will not unintentionally or intentionally change the author’s meaning.
- I will not miss a critical deadline.
- I will not demean or belittle your art.
