Catherine Newman
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312 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jun 2022
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They actually already know what it is.
But then we had to deal with a lot of nuance that I didn't really know about.
And so
Oh, and I had to learn really fast, like at some point, and you'll laugh because like this is so ignorant of me.
But at some point I had said, like, oh, it's really important when you're meeting somebody to make eye contact with them.
And one of our beta readers who was reading for accessibility was like, Yeah, lots of people can't do that.
Like you cannot that can't be a prerequisite for meeting somebody.
We were able to fine-tune to accommodate kind of much subtler questions of personhood than we had started with.
So to make eye contact if you can, to try again to make eye contact, even if you think of it as something you can't do.
And if you can't do it, you can't do it.
That's fine.
You have plenty of other things to offer that there we just didn't want it to feel like a book where you would think, ugh, shoot, this is not a book for me because I know I can't do this thing.
Yeah, yes.
And as I'm sure you can imagine, these were the parts of this book that the most people had the most comments about.
So we had different we hired different sensitivity readers at story.
We hired um a black writer and thinker to read the book um through the lens of
both potential racist assumptions in the book and also potential opportunities.
And we had uh a wheelchair user read the book for sensitivity to ability and disability and body differences and
And I really had to practice some of the skills in this book of being
Really of reminding myself to be grateful instead of defensive, for example.
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