Sensitivity Reading

People with misconceptions about marginalized experiences regulate those lives from those misconceptions. We aim to increase representation of underrepresented communities by providing our expertise to authors who don’t experience these things so that they can write about the experiences authentically and respectfully.

Areas We Cover

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Chronic Illness/Disability

Experiences include: Fibromyalgia, Functional Neurological Disorder, Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes, Premenstrual Dysphoria Disorder, using a cane, using a wheelchair, and Tendonitis.

ADHD

Experiences include: late ADHD diagnosis, ADHD after hysterectomy, and ADHD in women

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Polyamory

Experiences include: 

Asexuality

Experiences include: demisexuality, asexuality

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Autism

Experiences include: self diagnosis, parenting an autistic child, late diagnosis of autism

Abuse Survivor

Experiences include: emotional abuse, sexual assault

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OCD

Experiences include: obsessive-compulsive disorder with ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder with autism

Anxiety

Experiences include generalized anxiety, panic attacks, anxiety attacks

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Complex PTSD and PTSD

Experiences include emotional flashbacks, visual flashbacks, physical symptoms of trauma

Bisexuality

Experiences include 

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Tarot

Experiences include personal tarot reading, reading tarot for friends.

Strong Religious Culture

Experiences include growing up in the Mormon faith, growing up in the Luthern faith, living in a Mormon dominated culture

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Being A Woman In Tech/Gaming Spaces

Experiences include working on open source software, playing MMORPGs, writing in the TTRPG space