Right-wing French senators have proposed a bill that would restrict the use of 'inclusive writing', a style that increases the visibility of feminine versions of nouns and offers non-binary ...

As we know, every object in France has a gender and unlike languages such as German which have a neutral option, in French it must be either masculine or feminine. This isn't a problem when referring ...

The so-called ‘inclusive writing,’ which has been a bone of contention in the French political debate over the past years, is considered to be harmful to the learning process. French President ...

In France, some politicians are seeking to ban the use of gender-inclusive language in official communications. Inclusive neologisms such as iel – a combination of the male and female pronouns il and ...

As white writing program administrators, we, the professional staff of Writing@Bates, continue to reflect on these imperatives as well as the ways our positionality, privilege, and writing program ...

Most of us don't think about pronouns. The rules were simply drilled into our heads when we first took language lessons; he, she, you, they. Each served a definitive purpose - one for masculine, ...

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) has become better understood in recent years. The Me Too movement, resurgence of Black Lives Matter, and increased visibility for the LGBT+ community have put a spotlight ...

Now, more than ever, we need diverse books. We need to read and promote the writing of marginalized authors, or the literary world is going to become one big wash of books about white boys and their ...

Ensuring gender neutrality in writing is a tricky business, and nowhere more so than in Switzerland which uses four languages and may soon put the issue to the popular vote. Furious over inclusive ...

The French, as is well known, are obsessed by one thing - language. The latest topic to consume a nation of lexicologists is "inclusive writing". This is the attempt to erase all trace of sexism in a ...