Meeting date: Thursday, Feb. 2, 9 a.m.
On the agenda
: 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.
: 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 /
- Diversity Style Guide/
- Associated Press Stylebook sections on“”and “”
Identity-based journalism and advocacy organizations (a small sampling)
- Asian American JournalistsdzپDz/
- Association ofLGBTQ Journalists(NLGJA) /
- Council onAmerican-Islamic Relations(䴡)/(not .org)
- GLAAD’sLGBTQ+ MediaReference Guide /
- International Association ofReligion Journalists/
- National Association ofBlack Journalists/
- National Association ofHispanic Journalists/
- National Center onDisability and Journalism/
- Native American JournalistsAssociation / (not .org)
- Trans JournalistsAssociation /
- UBC’s (Canadian perspective on First Nations peoples and cultures)
A few others to follow
- Radical Copyeditor(AlexKapitan)/@ZrAlexKapitan
- Crystal Shelley /@RedPenRabbit
- ACES (The Society for Editing)/@ACESEditors
- #consciouslanguage
- #inclusivelanguage
: 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.