{"id":264,"date":"2018-11-18T23:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/?p=264"},"modified":"2018-11-21T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/2018\/11\/18\/264\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid erasing women and nonbinary people from everyday conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can avoid erasing women and nonbinary people from everyday conversations by using gender-neutral descriptions. Some examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folks, folx, or everybody instead of guys or ladies\/gentleman<\/li>\n<li>Humankind instead of mankind<\/li>\n<li>People instead of man\/men<\/li>\n<li>Members of Congress instead of congressmen<\/li>\n<li>Councilperson instead of councilman\/councilwoman<\/li>\n<li>First-year student instead of freshman<\/li>\n<li>Machine-made, synthetic, or artificial instead of man-made<\/li>\n<li>Parent or pibling instead of mother\/father<\/li>\n<li>Child instead of son\/daughter<\/li>\n<li>Kiddo instead of boy\/girl<\/li>\n<li>Sibling instead of sister\/brother<\/li>\n<li>Nibling instead of niece\/nephew<\/li>\n<li>Partner, significant other, or spouse instead of girlfriend\/boyfriend or wife\/husband<\/li>\n<li>Flight attendant instead of steward\/stewardess<\/li>\n<li>Salesperson or sales representative instead of salesman\/saleswoman<\/li>\n<li>Server instead of waiter\/waitress<\/li>\n<li>Firefighter instead of fireman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;Lydia Ortiz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/how-to-use-gender-neutral-words\">&#8220;How to Use Gender-Neutral Words (and why they&#8217;re important)&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can avoid erasing women and nonbinary people from everyday conversations by using gender-neutral descriptions. Some examples include: Folks, folx, or everybody instead of guys or ladies\/gentleman Humankind instead of mankind People instead of man\/men Members of Congress instead of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/2018\/11\/18\/264\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sa5mIN-264","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/arts-equity-and-inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}