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A longer comment when I am not on mobile--the book I reced, The King's Peace, also has a sexual assault scene, which I should have indicated.
Is the ask that the person recommending a book for the poll provide warnings about content when suggesting the book? Or are you planning to research it directly? Either is fine with me, I just wanted to be clear on the expectation. I usually suggest books I'm interested in reading but haven't read yet myself for polls. I'm happy to do some research if need be though.
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Having skimmed the reviews of some of the books up for April voting, it's become clear that one of the books (Daughter of the Forest) has a descriptive/graphic rape scene in it. Personally, that's not something I want to read, and ordinarily I would be turned off reading a book because of it.
However, I also think that it's important to discuss issues that effect girls and women, such as rape, and I don't want to categorically state 'no books about rape ever' because of that. But I do want this community we're building to be a safe space for all of you, and that means not forcing or pushing people to read books with graphic rape scenes in them.
So my current thought is this: I will do a better job of vetting books for the poll beforehand and making it clear that they contain graphic content. (This is not limited to rape - if there are other things you find triggering, please let me know through whichever avenue you find most comfortable, including anonymously on tumblr if you prefer).
If a book that contains graphic content such as rape does win the poll, I will also put up a post (and do a giveaway for) the book with the next most votes that does not feature such content.
However, these are just my current thoughts - if you have your own thoughts, ideas, or levels of comfort, please put them here. I definitely want to keep an open dialogue about situations like this.