inkstrangle:riptidepublishing:Hiring: Sensitivity Readers Riptide Publishing, a publisher of the
inkstrangle: riptidepublishing: Hiring: Sensitivity Readers Riptide Publishing, a publisher of the finest LGBTQ fiction, is hiring paid sensitivity readers. Our SRs will read manuscripts during developmental edits with an eye toward any potentially inaccurate, inauthentic, insulting, misrepresentative, harmful, or *-ist themes, phrases, or actions in the text. Sensitivity readers must be a part of the culture(s) or identity/identities they are reading for. We need readers in all areas of racial, ethnic, and religious diversity, sexual and gender orientation, and mental and physical illnesses and disabilities. Pay: $1.50 per 1000 words. Current needs: Chinese Mexican South Asian/Indian Hindu African-American Anorexia Trans man Please send: CV with education and pertinent editorial experience, if any Statement about areas of experience Send to: sarah.lyons(@)riptidepublishing.com Subject Heading: Sensitivity Reader Application For our purposes, we’re searching for paid sensitivity readers, but if you’re interested in doing unpaid beta reading for authors before manuscripts are submitted to Riptide, please let us know that too, and we can add you to another list. Anyone can be both an SR and a beta reader if they’d like (although not for the same book), or just a beta reader, or just an SR. Because intersectionality so strongly affects people’s experiences, preference will be given to readers who share the intersectionalities reflected in any given text. Okay, wow, well, I’m glad that you are trying? But seriously, if you want me to do editing work (and this is editing work), i expect to be paid at least minimum wage, and so should anyone else you’re hoping to hire. I know you are a small press, but that’s not an excuse not to pay people fairly for their time. That’s not even getting into how much fun I imagine it is, as a black sensitivity reader, to come across something like the “chocolate monkey of love” passage that prompted this hiring post. Spoiler: it is negative fun. (I’m not black; I am Chinese-American, and I would not touch this with a ten-foot pole. And neither should anyone else.) -- source link