Queer Editing

12/27/2020

Casey Beal reflects deeply, sensitively, and intricately on the process of editing, and in particular, the complexities presented by the notion of empathy when one considers that sometimes it's impossible to imagine oneself in another's shoes.

01/10/2020

Rachel Taylor Indigenous Editors' Association (Please contact us if you would prefer to donate via e-transfer.) The Indigenous Editors' Association (IEA) is

07/31/2018

Announcing an update to the transgender style guide: four new sections on how to avoid writing or talking about trans people in ways that are invalidating or otherwise harmful.

04/09/2018

The spelling and grammar rules do not apply on the Millennial Internet™.

11/15/2017

There’s a difference between appreciating language and being a snob. And the last place that we need grammar snobbery is in social justice movements. And not just because getting hung up on subject-predicate agreement is distracting to the job at hand, but also because purporting one form of English...

06/08/2016

Survey from a doctoral student conducting an online study on healthcare provided to the LGBTQ community with the goal of improving services for our community. Prizes! Healthcare improvements!

12/10/2015

We'd love to help you through your December writing woes.

10/16/2015

Q***r lit fest, Toronto.

The LGBTQ Festival of Words

07/15/2015

We're always stoked to learn about other editors talking about the value we assign to nonstandard or informal writing.

This is the text of the presentation I gave at the Editors' Association of Canada "Editing Goes Global" conference in Toronto on June 12, 2015. Headings are PowerPoint slides. Title slide As editor...

07/03/2015

Words for the weekend.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each...