Meeting date: Thursday, Feb. 2, 9 a.m.
On the agenda
Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, UMAC director of web strategy, will regale us with web-related happenings from winter quarter and enchant us with thoughts of what’s to come in spring. I believe there are a few professional development opportunities in there.
Equitable Language Guide (presentation slides): Meredith Jacobson, UMAC assistant director of content for editorial, will show the current version of the UW Equitable Language Guide (webpage) and discuss upcoming major updates and revisions to the guide, as well as some other useful resources for staying current on equitable language.
(A very few of the many existing) online resources for equitable language
General/wide-ranging guides (some examples)
- Conscious Style Guide / consciousstyleguide.com
- Diversity Style Guide / diversitystyleguide.com
- Associated Press Stylebook sections on “Race-Related Coverage” and “Inclusive Storytelling”
Identity-based journalism and advocacy organizations (a small sampling)
- Asian American Journalists Association / aaja.org
- Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA) / nlgja.org
- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) / cair.com (not .org)
- GLAAD’s LGBTQ+ Media Reference Guide / glaad.org
- International Association of Religion Journalists / theiarj.org
- National Association of Black Journalists / nabjonline.org
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists / nahj.org
- National Center on Disability and Journalism / ncdj.org
- Native American Journalists Association / najanewsroom.com (not .org)
- Trans Journalists Association / transjournalists.org
- UBC’s Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines (Canadian perspective on First Nations peoples and cultures)
A few others to follow
- Radical Copyeditor (Alex Kapitan) / @ZrAlexKapitan
- Crystal Shelley / @RedPenRabbit
- ACES (The Society for Editing) / @ACESEditors
- #consciouslanguage
- #inclusivelanguage
News Bytes: Peter Giles, senior developer and data analyst in the Office of the CISO, will give us an installment of News Bytes – a selection of recent web security news most relevant to the UW web content and development community.