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    Feb 22

    "Conscious Language in 'The American Heritage Dictionary'": speaks with for :

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  2. 11 hours ago

    The Canadian Translation Bureau crafted a detailed and practical recommendation for writing correspondence that is inclusive of both sexes and non-binary gender identities:

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  3. Apr 3

    "Language is rich and nuanced. As writers it’s our most basic tool. It behoves us to use it to include and to make experience meaningful." —, editor and founder of Cinnamon Press:

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  4. Apr 2

    "Terminology can embed our prejudices, at least until our thinking and usage around those terms change." Our thanks to for permission to reprint this important piece that originally appeared on :

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    Mar 29

    We've updated our guidelines on race and ethnicity to better reflect our philosophy of inclusivity: No more hyphens to denote dual heritage Thank you for flagging and for writing the piece that inspired us for !

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  6. Mar 29

    Speech pathologist Julie Washington believes that helping kids switch seamlessly between dialects is a key to their success:

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  7. Mar 28

    "Verbs suggesting authority were more typical of male characters, and verbs suggesting deference were more typical of female ones. ‘Ordered’, for instance, was 77% male, whereas ‘begged’ was 68% female."

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  8. Mar 28

    "It's high time educators realised that our policies about racism in school texts must go far above and beyond a conversation about racial slurs." Food for thought from member :

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  9. Mar 27

    "Calling It Out, Spelling It Out, Stamping It Out: Recognizing and Avoiding Bias": by for h/t

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  10. Mar 26

    "It’s important to ask who gets to tell mainstream AIDS stories in America, and to consider why this one—about white, gay men who don’t really engage in any political resistance—keeps getting retold." by h/t

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  11. Mar 23

    "‘X’, ‘@’ and How Other ‘Letters’ Fight for Gender Friendly Languages": by ,

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  12. Mar 22

    "Pain, allowed expression, doesn’t have to turn in on itself." by in

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  13. Mar 21

    "Trickier to spot, and with more insidious effects, the second way research is gendered lies in its focus. What gets studied, and how it is framed, plays a huge role in reinforcing the way in which society views women." in

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  14. Mar 20

    "Erasing Stephen Hawking's Disability Erases an Important Part of Who He Was": by in

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  15. Mar 19

    "When to Start Teaching Kids About Consent During the Era? Early, and Often": by for

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  16. Mar 18

    "How to Use Awkward Silence to Get What You Want": by in

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  17. Mar 16

    "A magazine can open people’s eyes at the same time it closes them.” invited historian to examine its archives and how it presented matters of race.

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  18. Mar 15

    "Language either diminishes or enlarges our understanding of our own experience." —Jan Fortune (), editor and founder of Cinnamon Press

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  19. Mar 14

    Reading books about gentle boys, rewarding thrillers that contain no sexual violence against women, examining gender imbalance in news stories and gender bias in science reports—read these stories and more in the latest Conscious Style Guide newsletter.

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  20. Mar 13

    "We see value in speaking two languages, but we don’t see value in speaking two dialects. Maybe it’s time we did.” —Julie Washington, professor of communications sciences and disorders

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  21. Mar 13

    People are "carrying these biases with them without knowing they're carrying them with them because there's no one around to challenge them."

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