Posted on 03/05/2019 9:07:18 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Until recently, Kosoko Jackson was considered an expert in the trapdoors of identity-related rhetoric. Jackson worked as a “sensitivity reader” for major publishers of YA fiction, a job that entails reading manuscripts and flagging them for problematic content. His own debut novel, A Place for Wolves, was promoted as an “#ownvoices” book, a hashtag attached approvingly to books in which the author shares a particular marginalized identity with his subject. (Jackson is black and queer.) He believed that, for example, women shouldn’t “profit” from writing gay men’s stories, as he tweeted last year. And he was part of a small and informal but intense online community that scolded writers who ran afoul of these values in their work or online. Now, Jackson has been demonized by the community he once helped police.
A Place for Wolves, Jackson’s first novel, was scheduled for publication later this month. The romantic thriller, set in the late 1990s during the Kosovo War, follows a relationship between two American teen boys. The book looked poised to succeed: It received several early starred reviews, which influence library purchases and bookstore placement, and had been named a “Kids’ Indie Next” pick, suggesting an early interest from independent booksellers. Last week, however, Jackson released a statement addressed to the “Book Community” that apologized for the “problematic representation and historical insensitivities” in his novel. He wrote that he had asked his publisher, Sourcebooks, to withdraw the book from publication. Sourcebooks quickly complied.
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I finally figured out what “Y.A.” stands for since I didn’t see it defined anywhere in the article. “Young Adult” - I think.
“Sensitivity reader”
Sounds like a perfect job for a SODOMITE!
Yes, this is as it appears. Of course.
All children's book must promote homosexuality. I think it's a law or something. Of course, this book was still insufficiently PC so the author is now in a gulag.
This guy joined the pile-on against Amelie Zhao a few months back, after she had the NERVE to write about fictional slavery that wasn’t completely consistent with the historical American version. I’m an indie YA writer and for the most part, I’m happy to just sit back with popcorn...time will tell if the wokemob sticks to eating their own or tries to venture out to indie writers.
Jackson is black and queer, but he is not a Muslim, so setting his “love story” in Kosovo during a genocide with a Muslim villain was a No No.
So, his “young faggots find love amidst a backdrop of war” book didn’t get published. That’s a shame. /s
How about he just turns the villain into a devout Christian?
Catholic Croat son of Nazi collaborator, or Orthodox Serb Putin puppet, which is worse this week?
And if he gets to write about Slavs, are Slavs allowed to write about black dudes?
Sensitivity readers might explain why so much cr@p gets published these days....
It is always entertaining to see the woke people lie and obfuscate while they try not to get destroyed by the mobs they stir up.
“Heidi Heilig, an author who has participated in many online skirmishes and provided a positive blurb for Jackson’s book, hastily revised her Goodreads review of A Place for Wolves. She suggested the book’s content may have changed since she read an early draft, apologized “to those I’ve hurt by my blurb,” and promised to “work harder.””
i wonder how the author feels about being blamed for her lack of sufficient woke-ness.
Democrats are perverted scum
Also interesting is how YA fiction is mostly read by adults, who could care less about this crap, or who are driving it, depending on how “woke” they are.
I admit that I am hooked on YA fiction, because of years of listening to online books on drives with the kids. Plus, frankly, YA fiction is often more entertaining, and less “weighty”; it can be feel-good, even if written about dystopia.
Eating their own.
Brokeback Mountain.
A “sensitivity reader” is a censor of anything not politically correct.
We have a winner.
That is correct YA = Young Adult, according to my search of: What is YA fiction?
Eating their own.
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he he.
What the f**k is a YA sensitivity reader? Why does YAs need it? Never heard of a job like that before...
It’s delicious.
I hate the sensitivity gestapo and I really hate the abject apologies they are forced into, ala Maoist self-criticism.
I write YA indie fiction, too. I am on hiatus until this plague of PC vomit passes away.....hopefully by suicide.
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