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“In the digital age, everything is memorialized, especially in a professional setting. There is a permanent digital trail of every email, message, Slack GIF you’ve sent.” - Angel Hu (they/she) Hu, Organizational Psychologist.

“Words or phrases that you might have gotten away with using in in-person conversations hold more weight, available to be clearly read and reread. Without the emotion of face-to-face interaction, unintentional language can feel very intentional.” - Jaagriti Sharma, from the AllVoices team.

“Language that is specifically male is often used as if it is universal. This can erase women and non-binary people from people’s mental modeling. So for example, the word ‘mankind’ supposedly represents all of humanity. But studies show that words like 'mankind' only trigger associations with men.” - Suzanne Wertheim, Ph.D., Linguist and Anti-Bias Consultant.

Read more on Upful's article in collaboration with AllVoices for 4 ways (including concrete examples) for everyone to practice inclusivity in the language. Link in comments.

There’s a lot of talk around building an inclusive culture, but not a lot of people talk about how. As Suzanne Wertheim, Ph.D. (Linguist and Anti-bias Consultant) says, inclusivity is embedded in our daily behaviors and speech, and so, language is an important way to start addressing inclusivity.

Read Upful's article in collaboration with AllVoices for 4 ways (including concrete examples) for everyone to practice inclusivity in the language. Link in comments.