Most AI assistants are feminine – and it’s fuelling dangerous stereotypes and abuse Without intervention, we risk hardcoding human misogyny into the digital infrastructure of everyday life.

"Those choices perpetuate a world where women—real or virtual—are cast as servient, submissive or silent."

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Home | The Conscious Language Newsletter by Karen Yin The Conscious Language Newsletter rounds up the best opinions and observations from the world of inclusive, respectful, and empowering language. Get the new book, The Conscious Style Guide!

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The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers

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How do you find guidance on #consciouslanguage? Defer to credible sources, like:

Communities directly affected
Affinity organizations
Services organizations
Mainstream style guides
Other trusted publications
Authors, scholars, activists directly affected
Friends directly affected

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How do you find guidance on #consciouslanguage?

📘 Dictionaries, style guides (for instance, Merriam-Webster includes notes about obscene, dated, offensive words)
📘 Conscious Style Guide website!!
📘 Karen Yin's book, Conscious Style Guide

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What is context?

Everything!

✅ The people: the source (storyteller) and the receiver (audience)
✅ The past: history and other patterns
✅ The present: circumstances surrounding the content

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People who are fighting for their rights and their lives are entitled to not be nice about it!

Inclusive language is not always #consciouslanguage. Think: “Black Lives Matter” vs. “All Lives Matter." Overincluding can mean the most marginalized in that group become invisible.

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What is conscious language?
It's language that promotes equity.

Conscious language is NOT:
—Nice or inoffensive language
—Inclusive language
—Politically correct language

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Currently watching @efafreelancers.bsky.social's #BIPOC chapter meeting with @karenyin.bsky.social as she discusses her #book The Conscious Style Guide.

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Join @efafreelancers.bsky.social as @karenyin.bsky.social discusses her #book The Conscious Style Guide on March 18.

This event is FREE and open to #EFA members and nonmembers.

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I am really excited for this one. I am one of the coordinators of the EFA #BIPOC affinity group and we been working hard to promote this event.

Learning about and using #ConsciousLanguage is an essential skill for writers and editors in this day and age.

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Physicians Are Not Providers: The Ethical Significance of Names in Health Care: A Policy Paper From the American College of Physicians | Annals of Internal Medicine More than 25 years ago, Pellegrino and Relman noted the increasing commercialization of the learned professions, anticipating what many physicians are increasingly experiencing today: an impairment…

provider =/= physician

"Language in health care has ethical and practical implications. Physicians should be referred to as physicians, not providers."

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10+ newsletters on #accessibility and #inclusion worth subscribing to in 2026

My personal fave: Conscious Style Guide!

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The Conscious Language Newsletter: January 2026 What language do people in larger bodies actually prefer?

My #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far:

• We’re Talking About AI All Wrong. Here’s How We Can Fix the Narrative
• Words Matter, Including “Fat,” “Obese,” “Curvy,” and “Heavy”
• Why “Biological Sex” May Not Mean What You Think

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Why “biological sex” may not mean what you think There are many terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex.

What does "biological sex" mean? Tips from the Trans Journalists Association on being clear, specific, and accurate.

#ConsciousLanguage

Open letter to conversation leaders around Gendered Violence: Choose your words with care - Quote This Woman+ It is currently the 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence. And as Quote This Woman+, an African feminist non-profit working for a gender-just media, we call on all thought-leaders and writers ...

Examining the euphemisms and abbreviations related to gender-based violence. “If the truth makes you uncomfortable, ask whether the discomfort comes from the language, or the underlying reality.”

#GBV #ConsciousLanguage #QuoteThisWoman

Want your writing to resonate with every reader? #ConsciousLanguage makes a difference.

#ContentGoals and editorial collaboration help create writing that’s thoughtful, accessible, and aligned with your values.

Choices in phrasing build trust—and strengthen your message. ➡️https://bit.ly/4oiZ3lv

Trans Day of Remembrance: Language and Representation Matters - The Editors' Weekly Zanne Klingenberg reflects on the Transgender Day of Remembrance and the impacts editors can have on gender-inclusive editing.

“Advocate for gender-neutral or gender-free language in the texts you work on.” @editorscanada.bsky.social

Thanks for giving our free gender/sex #consciousLanguage resources a shout-out, Zanne Klingenberg!

#TransDayOfRemembrance #RepresentationMatters #ConsciousStyle

This month’s #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far…

#1: Travel Expert Who’s Visited 70 Countries Shares 7 Phrases Americans Should Never Say Abroad

Plain Language Resistance: Is “Plain” the Problem? - The Editors' Weekly Tracey Anderson discusses the resistance from some to the term plain language, and asks if "plain" is the problem.

“The problem, I think, lies not in what plain language is but in what some writers mistakenly believe it is.”

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#PlainLanguage #ConsciousLanguage

Stop Calling Us “Nonprofit”: It’s Time for a New Name for the $1.4-Trillion Engine of Progress Jody Levison-Johnson of Social Current thinks it’s time to ditch the term "nonprofit" — and the funder mindsets that go along with it.

Is it time to replace the term #nonprofit? “We are not a ‘non’ anything. We are builders of jobs, innovators in care, stewards of families and communities, and an essential part of the nation’s economic infrastructure.” (@insidephilanthropy.com)

#Nationbuilding #Nonprofits #ConsciousLanguage

You can watch the Decolonizing Editing webinar on YT

This is a #consciouslanguage and ethical #editing presentation focused on how #editors can recognize the colonial perspective and intervene in instances where colonial #language is being used to misrepresent info.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpts...

Basics of Sensitivity Reading - Editor Edition, with Brittany Yost — Northwest Editors Guild | Editing Globally This week some Editing Globally team members have been attending webinars on working with conscious language, decolonizing editing, and how to become aware of our own biases and limitations in while w...

What is sensitivity reading? Here’s an excellent session presented by Brittany Yost:

www.linkedin.com/posts/editin...

#AuthenticityReading #SensitivityReading #ConsciousLanguage #AmEditing #AmLearning #CPD

How to Show Up for Your Newly Unemployed Colleagues Kill the empty platitudes and offer your former coworkers some serviceable empathy.

“You don’t need a motivational speech. A simple, ‘That’s awful, I’m really sorry you’re dealing with that,’ can mean a lot.” Tips from The Only Black Guy in the Office.

#ConsciousLanguage #Unemployment

How AARP is redefining aging through inclusion and authentic storytelling - Ragan Communications Comms pros can lead culture change by reexamining tone, imagery and everyday language to ensure every generation feels seen. As Vice President of Audience Strategy, Age Inclusion, at AARP, Karen Chong...

“Someone once said, ‘If you aren’t actively working to dismantle age discrimination, you’re supporting a system that will discriminate against your future self.’”—Karen Chong, VP, Audience Strategy, Age Inclusion, AARP

#Aging #Ageism #ConsciousLanguage

Decolonizing Editing with Amber Riaz - The FOLD | Editing Globally Continuing professional development season is very much a year-long activity in our diaries! Janet MacMillan, Aalap Trivedi and Ayesha Chari at Editing Globally will be attending a virtual session on...

Continuing professional development season is very much a year-long activity for @editingglobally.bsky.social members. Check out what team members are up to this week!

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Will you be there? Do say hi if you are going to attend.

#CPD #ConsciousLanguage #AmEditing

Decolonizing Editing - Editors Canada Webinars This webinar is held in collaboration with The Festival of Literary Diversity.  This is an hour-long conscious language and ethical editing presentation focused on how editors can recognize the…

Nov. 15 FREE webinar on Decolonizing Editing by Amber Riaz:

A #consciouslanguage and ethical #editing presentation focused on how editors can recognize the colonial perspective and intervene in instances where colonial language is being used to misrepresent info

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