Episode 266 #Sensitivity Readers with Jordan Shapiro and Jazz

Hey all, Jess here. When I agreed to read and blurb Jordan Shapiro&#8217;s new book, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jordan-shapiro/father-figure/9780316459969/">Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad</a>, I was struck by the attention he paid to inclusivity and the language he used to describe it. When I mentioned it to him, he told me he&#8217;d used a sensitivity reader named Jazz to ensure he got the language right. <br/><br/>Sensitivity readers are becoming more of a norm in publishing. Jodi Picoult has tweeted about how much she depends on hers to get her descriptions, language, and representation right in her books articles like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/vetting-for-stereotypes-meet-publishings-sensitivity-readers">this one in the Guardian</a> and <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/sensitivity-readers-what-the-job-is-really-like.html">this one in Vulture</a> are great primers on the topic. <br/><br/>We asked Jordan and Jazz to join us to talk about the experience of working together to create <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jordan-shapiro/father-figure/9780316459969/">Father Figure.</a><br/><br/>#AmReading<br/><br/>Jazz: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781631496042">What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She</a> by Dennis Baron<br/><br/>Jordan: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780307948472">Interior Chinatow</a>n by Charles Yu<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593318171">Klara and the Sun</a> by Kazuo Ishiguro<br/><br/>KJ: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780525511502">Conjure Women</a> by Afia Atakora<br/><br/>Jess: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062941275">Act Your Age, Eve Brown</a> by Talia Hibbert <br/><br/>As always we&#8217;re sponsored by Author Accelerator&#8212;THE place to find a book coach or become one! KJ here, and I think I&#8217;m a book coach addict. I have an editor waiting for this revision and an agent who&#8217;s always happy to read and I&#8217;m STILL tempted to call up a co