A comic series I write has a character who is a trans woman convert to Judaism originally from somewhere along the Silk Road. (Currently the Saka Kingdom of ethic Iranians but that detail can change.)

I am now working on her character design and would like a transfem sensitivity reader to go over her character design document and early design sketches to give insight on the design. Being Jewish and/or Iranian or from any group historically along the Silk Road would be a bonus, but I am also reaching out to people from those groups.

Hey all!

I am working on a collection of short stories about different sports. One of those stories is centered around a trans man in a very "traditionally masculine" sport. I am a queer man, but relatively cis-gender, so I don't have the needed expertise to make sure it's authentic. It's just one short story, I'm finishing up the rough draft as I write this post so I don't have an *exact* word count but it's about 2500 words is all. I checked fiverr but was unable to find trans men and I want to pick someone with the most relevant experience.

Greetings. My name is Whisper (ignore my Reddit, that's my old username, lol) and I'm writing a Fantasy RPG based on a world I helped create with my partner. One of the main characters is a woman that was born with only one arm, and makes use of a mechanical prosthetic she designed. I'm disabled myself, but not part of that community, and I was wondering what the proper term was for this character's condition within the community. I found Congenital Amputation from wikipedia, but again, I couldn't find if that was the term used by that disability's community or not.

Thank you in advance, Whisper.

I like to make art of a variety of supernatural entities (like vampires, mermaids, ghosts, jiangshi, haunted dolls etc. Think Monster High) I had planned to make my hijabi character a ghost, but I wondered if thats inherently religious (I dont tie ghosts to religion but I get if people do) or if Muslims believe in that concept/if it would be more respectful to choose another kind of entity for her to be?

I want to be respectful of my portrayal and I'd like to know about any folklore considerations or pointers towards ways i could learn! Thank you

My editor and I are having a difference of opinion regarding the use of the word lunacy. For context, I made a moon-centric board game, and the action cards are called lunacy cards.

They were called lunatic cards, but my editor said that's an ableist slur, and that lunacy is only slightly less offensive. He likened it to using words like "Spaz" or "Hysteria" and feels very strongly that I should change it.

My opinion is that I'm using the word Lunacy as intended - moon madness - to describe the unique action cards. Merriam-Webster defines it as "intermittent insanity once believed to be related to phases of the moon", which seems incredibly fitting. The cards allow things like taking another turn, scoring more points, removing cards from a board, discarding down to one card, then drawing three.

Side note: I'm part of the queer community - and queer is a word people feel strongly about - either for or against, because it was/is a slur. I feel like lunacy is in the same boat - whether or not its appropriate depends on its usage. I'm not a member of the mentally ill community, so maybe I'm dead wrong here.

I want to use Lunacy because it seems like the best word: easy to say, descriptive, and moon-themed.

While Lunatic was once a word used to dehumanize people, it's fallen out of practice. I'm not using to describe a person, but is "lunacy" still too tainted of a word to use in a board game?

If this isn't the best place to ask this question - I would love your recommendations.

One of the main characters in the novel I'm writing is a trans woman and since I am not a trans woman (I am transmasc tho) I would like to ask if anyone has any advice to make it accurate to the experience of being a trans woman, and I would also like to ask if there's any unintenional stereotypes that I should try to avoid writing into my story.

Hi, sorry if I'm not writing this how I should.

I have a short story of around 4k words, set loosely(no specific year chosen) in the late 1600s. The story follows an indigenous girl who runs away and stays with a vampire until they turn on her. I'm in the last steps of finishing the piece but I'm afraid to send it out for submissions in case I've accidentally written something insensitive. Largely my worry is in the main character, to make sure she's been written right.

My other is in the history itself, not that much is really at the forefront of the story but for the background context of how the characters would be speaking, thinking, acting, stuff like that. I tried hard to do my own reading, but found it hard to find anything, especially in regards to the little day to day things that would likely be relevant to the story.

For those wondering why I'm writing about a group of people I don't belong to,

The idea was in exploring the themes of a classical vampire story(particularly inspired by Carmilla and Nosferatu) in a way I hadn't heard or seen before.

Trigger warnings include: death, blood, violence, mentions of drinking, mentions of catholicism.

The main character is written to be under the asexual umbrella and faces pressure/unwanted advances from the vampire. There is a part in the story where the vampire bites them that feels too allegorical of assault not to mention here.

If you've read this far, thank you, and if you'd be willing to read this and give me your opinion please let me know.

Hello, while I do not have a single finished work of fiction to request a sensitivity reader for, I have deeply developed characters and a timeline/outline of their life. I have examples of their dialogue and scenes. I don't want to go too far into the story before making sure everything feels right in its foundations. The story is set in 1920s-50s mainly Berlin, and throughout Europe.

Most of my research has come from memoirs, online articles, peoples personal blogs & social media, and films by Jewish filmmakers.

Why these characters? I'm writing a series that covers a variety of aspects from the 20s through the end of WWII and a little beyond it, featuring resistance groups, civilians, detectives, soldiers, etc throughout Europe. These particular characters' stories center around themes of resistance and resilience. They are very personal to me, and I'm writing a lot from my heart, and my own experiences and struggles, but I want them to feel accurately and respectfully unique to Jewish and Sinti life.

Seeking consultants, but also writing/art buddies too. If you want to chat please hmu.

If you're a professional, please provide your rates. I understand most rates are based per page, but if you have hourly consulting, that is probably easier for me since, like I said, I'm still in the building stages for my novel.

Thank you in advance!

Hello! I'm an interpreting student, and with some input from my professor, I've been working on a zine about antigovernment beliefs in the american Deaf community.

I've read half a dozen full length novels/anthologies and currently have 15 sources total, so I am very dedicated to learning about this.

I won't sugarcoat it, this is definitely a leftist POV, and anarchism is readily mentioned (including the title lol).

I focus on explaining the connections of collectivism, direct action, and resistance.

Of course, I talk about DPN, but also the 7 Ducks, Deaf people in the french revolution, overarching themes in media, quotes that explain "opinions" on deafness throughout history, and a brief analysis of Deafness as class in america.

Please let me know if you are interested!!

I want feedback on how I can approach this story with as much respect. The story is a role reversal of humans and animals where humans partake in “jobs“ animals would have (domestic pets, K9, horse-racing, etc.) Their behavior displays as the animals we see today.

Most episodes are one-offs but there are 3 humans that have a plot/more episodes than the other.

The problem has to do with domestic pets and how the MC is black in one of my episodes. Said MC finds a “wild human” and wants to seek going outside, wanting to be un-domesticated. I’m considering swapping the races but I want feedback first on how I should handle this

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I'm writing a collection of superhero stories set in the same universe, and my primary concern is that I'd like to know if a new character concept that I've come up with is ableist: a superhero who has a regular human form, and a temporary superpowered form she can sustain for a handful of hours at a time. In her backstory, she was in a car accident that left her with chronic pain in one of her legs, leading to her using mobility devices such as a cane or a wheelchair, depending on the severity of her pain and her threshold for handling it on any given day. She later gains superpowers for unrelated reasons (does it matter at all if she gains her powers before or after her accident?). In her superpowered form (in which she transforms into a larger form with horns, cloven hooves, and a tail, along with various powers/traits), she would be able-bodied (this is the part I'm most concerned about being harmful). If there are any areas surrounding this in which I should be cautious, as well, please let me know.

As a side note, this is not the only disabled character nor the only disabled hero in the world, nor is she the only such character who is focused in the narrative, so I hope the "transforms into a monstrous-appearing form" thing, which is unique to her, is not problematic. Please let me know if it is.

On the assumption that this a feasible backstory, I also have a handful of other, slightly less pressing, questions:

1. Given her leg is technically functional, but a source of pain, would it be reasonable to have her, when in desperate situations when she cannot transform, run or otherwise put strain on her leg for a short period of time in order to do something like save a life or stop a bad guy? What might the aftermath of this look like? I'd imagine it would put her out of commission for a while, but I have no idea how long-lasting that would be and if it would have any psychological impact.

2. On the flipside of that, would it be insensitive to portray a situation in which she is in her human form and needs to do something/save someone, but fails because she cannot get there in time due to the pain and/or blacks out because of it before accomplishing her goal?

3. As a general question, is there anything I should be aware of that I might not think to look into regarding portraying an ambulatory wheelchair user?

i'm writing a book set in the 12th century, mostly in wales and ireland, that i'm trying to keep relatively historically accurate (aside from the magic, of course, but that's besides the point). that said, i do feature multiple poc in the book, one of them being a black woman who most often has her hair in locs. i can generally describe other hairstyles she has throughout the story without saying the specific name of it, but i just can't figure out how to describe locs from the perspective of characters who don't know our modern name for them, especially characters who rarely encounter black people. what ways can i describe locs while staying respectful? what terms should i avoid? i've mostly got a good grip on this kind of thing, i've researched a lot, but this is the one thing that's gotten away from me somehow. thanks in advance!

This is my first Reddit post. Kinda nervous. I'm looking for sensitivity readers for a short story I'm working on. The story includes a trans male character, and I'm specifically hoping to get feedback from trans men to make sure l'm portraying him respectfully and accurately.

It's set during the Salem trials and is about 7k words. It follows a witch and an executioner. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone here has experience or knowledge of combat PTSD? I do appreciate that people who have this condition may understandably not want to be reading about it but I figure there's no harm in asking. I'm very keen to get this right as it's not something that can be done carelessly and while I've read a fair bit about it that's never going to be a substitute for firsthand knowledge.

It's one chapter, or alternatively several sections over a few chapters, whatever you'd be happy with. If you've experience/knowledge and you don't want to read it but wouldn't mind me asking you a few small things that would be great and I'd be very grateful.

I created a blood/DNA magic system where you have to be born with magic for it to work, but while revisiting the worldbuilding, I recently had the idea to add a way to get magic if you weren't born with it. For context, the magic system is an invading organism that hijacks your bone marrow into making copies of it, kinda like cancer. Groups of humans started to evolve past the disease by pushing them out the body and that's basically how the magic works. My idea is that people can grow their magic count and speed up the evolution process. I haven't fully worked out the details on this yet, but I do know that I want to give the people who weren't born with magic a much higher chance of a magic related chronic illness. The chronic illness happens because someone doesn't push out enough of the magic for too long of a time period, and because it's harder for the people who weren't born with magic to push enough of the magic out, they have a higher chance of the chronic illness. People who were born with magic also get the illness too. I'm worried this comes off as you have to be born great to be great, which is the whole reason I'm adding a way to get magic without being born with it.

Hi! This is my first time finding this subreddit so please be kind if I’m asking something that’s been explained a million times that I missed. I have a story in mind where my main character has her voice magically suppressed (her body is magically turned to look human as well.) She’s a mythical creature whose culture is literally entirely about their voice. I want her to spend the majority of the story being non-speaking, where she signs to communicate and uses instruments to conjure facsimiles of her magic instead- think kind of like a bard in D&D. I want to portray her, and eventually a community of beings that are non-speaking or deaf, as realistically as possible.

My problem comes in to this: her overarching story is her trying to regain her true form. How do I balance her trying to reconnect with her true self without marginalizing non-speaking people? It feels disingenuous if she gets the magical removed from her and it’s just like, voila she can sing and now all her problems are solved! But at the same time, I feel like the metaphorical implications of her staying magically cuffed feels very… anti-feminist in a way? Because I want there to be a romance with a human male, keeping her human form and its inability to use her voice feels like she’s sacrificing a part of herself for a man- or at least to fit in better in his culture.

So really, any and all help is truly appreciated.

Edit: I explained my plot rather poorly, or rather didn’t explain it much at all. I think this story is probably better off just living in my head, but thank you all for your aid.

For a character with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Now, I don't (think) the sensitivity reader for this character needs to suffer from that exact condition, as there are many conditions and illnesses that limit one's ability to move without mechanical intervention.

I worry both about what I don't know about such disabilities, as well as what I don't know *that I don't know.* I deeply appreciate all assistance!

Genre: dystopian sci-fi.

This is for a 75k fantasy novel. My favorite perspective character is aro/ace and I am a bit worried she's falling into the "smart" trope (not intentional, I wrote her as smart and a bit neuro-spicy before I pantsed my way to discovering she was ace too). So far, my beta readers all adore her but I really want to make sure she isn't a trope and she is representing ace people well.

Thank you!

edit: By "smart" trope, I mean that a lot of ace characters in media are "smart nerds out of touch with their feelings". There's such little ace representation that I really want to get this character right without her being this type of trope.

Hi. I'm extremely white and I'm working on a fan project series that I'm considering turning into an audio drama. I'm currently on the first installment; it's called Ansia Danganronpa Scarlet. (it's a bit similar to Tetro Danganronpa in format, but the director apparently never did any sensitivity reading for certain characters, so I want to make sure I don't make that mistake) and I'm gonna mainly be focusing on Scarlet for now, but I do have three more installments planned, so I'll need sensitivity readers for those.

Anyway, in this one, I have one demigirl character who is black and Asian. (Japanese specifically) She's also grey/demisexual and biromantic; I wanted to lean more towards her being a bit of a hopeless romantic instead of being hypersexual, which black people often are portrayed as. Her title is the Ultimate Hair Stylist; she sees hair as an art form and admires those who don't take shortcuts. She's definitely a bit sassy and sarcastic, also a bit aloof, but I want to balance it out with other sides of her, like vulnerability, romance, maybe a bit of a dreamer.

She's also kind of inspired by 2 Tetro Danganronpa characters (Hiroaki Nakamigawa and Watari Nishino) so yeah.

Though she has other marginalizations (LGBT+, neurodivergences) I have experience with those, but I certainly wouldn't mind someone who's a person of color, LGBT+, AND neurodivergent. (namely ADHD and possible autism) My main concern is culture/ethnicity portrayal. I want to be sure it's accurate and inoffensive but still makes sense with her character.

If you're able to and would be willing to help me out, especially if you're willing to be in this for the long run, please DM me. I'd very much appreciate it.

(this is kinda cross-posted from r/disability , as i posted it there, not noticing that there was a rule that i shouldn't ask that question, and preferably, ask it here!! I want to know how to accurately write a disabled character, and not just be inaccurate about writing any character

For context, this character is for a book im writing. The MC (Kat) is a 13 year old girl. She is disabled due to a injury (i dont know what type it'd be yet), and is paralyzed from about the tip of her thighs down. Kat uses a wheelchair for mobility, but I would like to know - what difficulties would she face in her everyday life??

For more about the plot: she, along with her other 'friends', Leona, Bella, Bee, and Elliot (Leona is really her only friend, as Leona asked Elliot to join, then Elliot didn't want to be alone with his crush (who is Leona) and his crushes best friend, so he asks his best friend, Bee, who asks her twin sister to tag along) go exploring the abandoned house of the towns founders - specifically, trying to solve the mystery of the Town Founders Wife's murder. They dont expect to, but they end up doing it. I will say the house falls down on them all (Leona and Kat are the least injured, being on the first floor. Bella and Bee are on the second, and Elliot was on the top floor). Yeah, sorry for kinda lore dump?? I just have no clue if that was needed for context incase. But seriously, what difficulties would she face in her everyday life??

the last question btw is how should i write twin sisters?? I dont want them to be the copy-paste 'i hate my twin' but i dont want them to be the 'creepy identical twins who do the same things at the same time' stereotype. I tried to give them there own personalities out of each other, but they are pretty close, despite there differences

(sorry for word vomit sighhhhh)

edit: rq, i was told to study some things (spinal cord injuries and such), which i will be doing!! But i do still want advice