Jennifer Dunne
Jun 11, 2021

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I'd never heard of sensitivity readers until this year. One of the people reviewing our screenplay made a comment about how he'd want a sensitivity reader in the writers' room to make sure we were accurately portraying another culture. It sounded like a great idea to me -- after all, I don't want to inadvertently offend someone with an assumption that it never occurred to me to check. But at the same time, I wonder if we're demeaning writers. I'm not writing a character to represent an entire race of people. I'm writing a specific character in a specific situation with a specific history. Having to pass that by a sensitivity reader implies my character is somehow wrong if it doesn't match the reader's experience.

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Jennifer Dunne
Jennifer Dunne

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