A sensitivity reader is someone who reads a literary work, looking for perceived offensive content, stereotypes and bias, creating a report for an author or publisher with suggested changes. Basically, if you are an author that writes, for example, about a minority, it would be a great idea to get someone from that minority to check the text for “blind spots,” to get a greater level of authenticity.
- Many perceive this to be a good development for the international community, considering the staggering amount of Danish books from the past that portray different minorities, either wrongly or intentionally bad.
