"As the Egyptian Egyptologist Heba Abd El Gawad pointed out in a panel, discussions like these often happen between academics & museums, excluding contemporary Egyptian communities whose displaced ancestors are interred in these museums.

...[R]ebranding a 'mummy' as 'mummified person' is more performative than it is a meaningful way to respect that person or the culture they came from."

My take? #Repatriate + #Rebury

#ConsciousLanguage #Egypt #Egyptology

https://defector.com/how-to-respect-a-mummy

"It’s clear that copyediting as it’s typically practiced is a white supremacist project, that is, not only for the particular linguistic forms it favors and upholds, which belong to the cultures of whiteness and power, but for how it excludes or erases the voices and styles of those who don’t or won’t perform this culture." - Helen Betya Rubinstein via LitHub

#Publishing #Editing #AmEditing #Copyediting #Copyeditor #ConsciousLanguage

@diversebooks @bookstodon @sffbipoc

https://lithub.com/against-copyediting-is-it-time-to-abolish-the-department-of-corrections