Curious about gender and language? Check out "Build Your Gender Diversity Toolbox," a resource roundup originally published through a professional org but now available for free at my website. Lots of good stuff to explore :)

https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/gender-diversity-resources.html

@edibuddies #edibuddies #editing #InclusiveLanguage
#ConsciousLanguage

The Atlantic published a bad critique of conscious language style guides. @EvilJoeMcVeigh takes them to task: https://andreadallover.com/2023/08/04/george-packer-and-the-atlantics-sad-defense-of-inequity/

#EnglishUsage #language #linguistics #StyleGuide #ConsciousLanguage #WritingCommunity #EditingCommunity

I had a lovely time talking to Melanie Padgett Powers on her "Association Station" podcast about conscious language and why it's important for associations (and all writers) to consider how their messaging might affect their audience. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen here: http://bit.ly/3JHCfcW

#Editing #AmEditing #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingTips @edibuddies #ConsciousLanguage #InclusiveLanguage

"The need to avoid ableist language is thus not about avoiding hurt feelings. Instead, it’s about confronting grave, violent, oppressive, and ongoing stakes."

https://theopennotebook.com/2023/06/27/eradicating-ableist-language-yields-more-accurate-and-more-humane-journalism

H/T @pongojones for sharing

#Editing #AmEditing #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingTips @edibuddies #ConsciousLanguage #InclusiveLanguage #Ableism

Gender affects all our lives, and all our stories—but what even is it? What’s it doing, for good and for ill, in fiction? This class dives deep into those questions and more, aiming to equip writers to work with gender in informed, inclusive, purposeful, and joyful ways. Join me to learn together in 3 weeks!

https://loft.org/classes/gender-our-playground-toward-inclusive-informed-joyful-storytelling

@edibuddies @writers #WritingAdvice #WritingCraft #QueerWriters #Romancelandia #InclusiveLanguage #ConsciousLanguage #GenderDiversity #FictionWriting

Happy #PrideMonth! If you're a fiction writer interested in doing more/better with gender diversity & inclusion, consider my July Loft Literary class "Gender is Our Playground." I'm editing the content right now and can report it's chock full of great stuff :)

https://loft.org/classes/gender-our-playground-toward-inclusive-informed-joyful-storytelling

@edibuddies @writers #WritingAdvice #WritingCraft #QueerWriters #Romancelandia #InclusiveLanguage #ConsciousLanguage #GenderDiversity

Love, love, love this new post from Alex Kapitan (Radical Copyeditor). "Using language consciously and anti-oppressively is rooted in care, not correctness."

https://radicalcopyeditor.com/2023/05/30/conscious-communication-and-the-power-of-language/

#Editing #AmEditing #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingTips #ConsciousLanguage #InclusiveLanguage @edibuddies

In the March 2023 edition of The #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter (hashtags mine):

• How "Ma’am" Went From Being a Respectful Word for Some—but Polarizing for Others
• Youse Hear About #InclusiveLanguage?
• Examples of #Ableist Language You May Not Realize You’re Using
• Ancient #Judaism Recognized a Range of #Genders…
• #InclusiveDesign’s Next Chapter: #Design for #Cognition

📗 Read: https://consciousstyleguide.com/conscious-language-newsletter-march-2023/

📥 Subscribe: https://consciousstyleguide.com/newsletters/

#ConsciousLanguage #WritingCommunity @edibuddies

The LA Times will replace "internment" with terms like "incarceration" and "imprisonment" to describe the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. The article also mentions the late Henry Fuhrmann's advocacy work on leading this change.

H/T editor friend Jay Wang

#Editing #AmEditing #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingTips @edibuddies #ConsciousLanguage #InclusiveLanguage

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-16/japanese-american-internment-incarceration-wwii-los-angeles-times-style

Dictionary.com changes #antisemitism spelling away from "anti-Semitism."

"The move comes nearly two years after The Associated Press similarly changed the spelling in its widely used style guide. It also reflects an ongoing push by many American Jewish organizations to spell 'antisemitism' without the capital S."

📗 #Read: https://jewishinsider.com/2023/02/dictionary-definition-antisemitism-spelling/

📥 For more #ConsciousLanguage updates, check out my #ConsciousLanguage #newsletter: https://bit.ly/consciouslanguagenews

@edibuddies #Jewish #APStyle #Editing

The #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! This month’s articles include (hashtags mine):

• Mum Watched Me Correct My Husband, Then Sagely Warned Me: “Don’t Become the Expert in the #Baby”
• New #Latino and #MiddleEastern or #NorthAfrican Checkboxes Proposed for U.S. Forms
• Images That Don’t Need #AlternativeText Still Need #ALT Attributes
• It’s Time to Retire the Term #Blind Review

To get future issues in your in-box, #subscribe: https://consciousstyleguide.com/newsletters/

#Writing #Empowerment @edibuddies

The #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is coming out tomorrow (2/22/23). To get it in your in-box, #subscribe: https://consciousstyleguide.com/newsletters/

Articles include (hashtags mine):

• Mum Watched Me Correct My Husband, Then Sagely Warned Me: “Don’t Become the Expert in the #Baby”
• New #Latino and #MiddleEastern or #NorthAfrican Checkboxes Proposed for U.S. Forms
• Images That Don’t Need #AlternativeText Still Need #ALT Attributes
• It’s Time to Retire the Term #Blind Review

#Writing #Empowerment @edibuddies

Time for me to ask wypipo to not use "tribe" when talking about a group of people with whom you affiliate or have qualities in common.

They're your house, your chosen family, your comrades, your people.

But unless you and they are #Indigenous? They aren't your tribe. #ConsciousLanguage

Today’s #CapsuleCollective highlight: Anna Dobbin is an #author and freelance #copyeditor, #proofreader, and #consciouslanguage specialist. Her #writing has appeared in the middle grade anthologies The Hero Next Door and Totally Middle School. When she isn’t writing, she copyedits middle grade and young adult books, as well as fiction and nonfiction for adults, graphic novels, cookbooks, and more.

#capsulestories

I love talking about why I created #ConsciousStyleGuide for writers and editors and how I use #consciousLanguage as a tool for equity. Here's my Q&A with #TheObjective, a publication devoted to improving the practice of #journalism.

Read: https://objectivejournalism.org/2023/02/karen-yin/

@edibuddies #Journalists #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Interview #Editor #Editors #Editing #EditorsOfColor #MediaDiversity #Diversity #Equity

Curious about #consciousLanguage? My newsletter comes out mid month. If you'd like to get on the list, please #subscribe: https://consciousstyleguide.com/newsletters

On that page, you can read past issues. The articles in the January issue include (hashtags mine):

• Don’t Leave Fat People Out of Your #DEI Goals
• “Y’all,” That Most Southern of #Southernisms, Is Going Mainstream—and It’s About Time
• #Muslim Representation in the #Media Must Be Improved
• Both-Sidesing the #Climate Story

#Writing @edibuddies

Wealth of #Intersectionality and #Language Info!

The English language is changing every day. One way to stay on top of it is to follow the experts.

So here’s my regular plug for @karenyin 's #ConsciousStyleGuide #ConsciousLanguage newsletter, January 2023 edition. A wealth of information at your fingertips. Subscribe to get this right in your inbox!

https://consciousstyleguide.com/conscious-language-newsletter-january-2023/

Guidance from #NABJ (the National Association of Black Journalists) on covering footage of #TyreNichols' murder:

"News executives and managers must ensure that the reporting produced under their leadership follows the pillars of journalism and unapologetically tells Tyre’s story through a careful lens of the Black community."

Read: https://nabjonline.org/blog/nabj-offers-guidance-on-coverage-of-tyre-nichols-murder-footage/

#Tyre #Memphis #PoliceViolence #Journalism #News #ConsciousLanguage #ConsciousStyle #EditorsOfColor #JournosOfColor
#Editing #Copyediting

I have a juicy collection of #ConsciousLanguage articles in the January 2023 newsletter, including the following (hashtags mine):

• Don’t Leave Fat People Out of Your #DEI Goals
• “Y’all,” That Most Southern of #Southernisms, Is Going Mainstream—and It’s About Time
• #Muslim Representation in the #Media Must Be Improved
• Both-Sidesing the #Climate Story

📥 Want it in your in-box? #Subscribe: https://consciousstyleguide.com/newsletters

#newsletter #inclusiveLanguage #journos #journalism #representation #diversity

Hey, #writers! Didya know the singular "they" is widely accepted? #QuickAndDirtyTips says:

"The Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA, and the APA style guides all say it’s absolutely fine to use 'they' for a person if that person uses they/them pronouns. In fact, the Trans Journalists Association has its own style guide that gives the most up-to-date guidance: 'They/them pronouns are not new and should not require an explanation for audiences."

#Read: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/old-they-new-they-language-change-in-action/

#ConsciousLanguage