C Magazine / The Limits of Empathy: Criticism and Editing Across Borders Casey Beal reflects deeply, sensitively, and intricately on the process of editing, and in particular, the complexities presented by the notion of empathy when one considers that sometimes it's impossible to imagine oneself in another's shoes.
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01/10/2020
Click here to support Indigenous Editors' Association organized by Rachel Taylor Rachel Taylor Indigenous Editors' Association (Please contact us if you would prefer to donate via e-transfer.) The Indigenous Editors' Association (IEA) is
07/31/2018
Update to Transgender Style Guide: Avoiding Invalidating Language Traps Announcing an update to the transgender style guide: four new sections on how to avoid writing or talking about trans people in ways that are invalidating or otherwise harmful.
04/09/2018
Millennials destroyed the rules of written English – and created something better The spelling and grammar rules do not apply on the Millennial Internet™.
11/15/2017
Why Grammar Snobbery Has No Place in the Movement - Everyday Feminism There’s a difference between appreciating language and being a snob. And the last place that we need grammar snobbery is in social justice movements. And not just because getting hung up on subject-predicate agreement is distracting to the job at hand, but also because purporting one form of English...
Survey from a doctoral student conducting an online study on healthcare provided to the LGBTQ community with the goal of improving services for our community. Prizes! Healthcare improvements!
12/10/2015
We'd love to help you through your December writing woes.
10/16/2015
Q***r lit fest, Toronto.
Naked Heart The LGBTQ Festival of Words
07/15/2015
We're always stoked to learn about other editors talking about the value we assign to nonstandard or informal writing.
When to Use Bad English This is the text of the presentation I gave at the Editors' Association of Canada "Editing Goes Global" conference in Toronto on June 12, 2015. Headings are PowerPoint slides. Title slide As editor...
Words for the weekend.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each...
06/16/2015
Hope to see you there!
Allied Media Conference A collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world Join us for the 17th annual Allied Media Conference: June 18 - 21, 2015. Held every summer in Detroit,
03/02/2015
Step-by-step arguments against grammar hierarchies, and also a nice reminder that "language is ever-evolving, that it is used adaptively to benefit the community using it, that its very existence is dependent upon growth and change.
And that that is what makes it so beautiful."
Why Grammar Snobbery Has No Place in the Movement There’s a difference between appreciating language and being a snob. And the last place that we need grammar snobbery is in social justice movements. And not just because getting hung up on subject-predicate agreement is distracting to the job at hand, but also because purporting one form of Engli
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