The Conscious Language Newsletter
The Conscious Language Newsletter: February 2021
The media’s lack of coverage of rising anti-Asian violence.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: January 2021
Letting go of words that no longer serve us.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: December 2020
How to handle questionable passages in classic children’s books.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: November 2020
How to talk about autism without using ableist language.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: October 2020
Focus on fiction: body positivity, describing women, and not making Whiteness the default.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: September 2020
Respecting Muxe, a third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: August 2020
The harm in overstating harm.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: July 2020
The term “BIPOC,” Orientalism in food writing, and racist mascots.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: June 2020
Updating the definition of “racism” in Merriam-Webster.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: May 2020
Language that empowers communities in times of crisis.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: April 2020
Gender-inclusive labels, categories, and courtesy titles.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: March 2020
Covering the coronavirus responsibly.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: February 2020
Why newsrooms are rethinking mugshots, “crazy” isn’t always ableist, and gaming needs gender-neutral pronouns.
The Conscious Language Newsletter: January 2020
Why the Los Angeles Times stopped italicizing “foreign” foods, Merriam-Webster is reviewing an entry in its dictionary, and compliments can be racist.
December 2019 Newsletter
Reclaiming the “OK” gesture, designing better algorithms, and the potential of “y’all.”