Sensitivity Readers
This is a fantastic trend, and one that’s helpful to any author trying to get it right when portraying a range of voices and backgrounds in their work. Publishers and writers are hiring Sensitivity Readers who help advise on manuscripts, providing feedback, and teaching authors “what they do not know.”
There’s more in this Publishers Weekly article, and here’s a link to Writing in the Margins, a sensitivity reader mentor organization, for people seeking readers for their work.