boost: Modifying Language for Social Justice

Are you interested in modifying language in service of social justice? I sure am -- see my rhetoric tag.

The Conscious Style Guide has a monthly roundup newsletter with fascinating links. Here are my favorite links from this month’s. Full newsletter archive and signup on their site.

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Wiki Gender is a collaborative feminist platform that works on producing knowledge on gender, feminism, and women-related issues in Arabic language; and curating and storing other Arabic productions in these fields, be it written or multimedia content. Additionally, we translate into Arabic selections of texts and academic papers covering the topics of gender and feminism. Lastly, we discuss and boldly experiment with Arabic language terms and grammar in order to create and promote a more gender inclusive and accessible modern Arabic.

The trends that may end the “y’all” vs “you guys” debate

Black author Jason Parham addresses "What We Get Wrong About ‘People of Color’"

The phrase turns a plural into a singular, an action that betrays all the ways we have come to understand contemporary identity.

Press release: Identifying and removing bias from web corpuses to prevent machines learning our biases

Actual Research: Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text by Pryzant, Diehl Martinez Dass,Kurohashi, Jurafsky, Yang