7 tips for writing more inclusive language

When women speak truly they speak subversively — they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

This quote by Ursula Le Guin has been my guiding light in my journey to learn to be more inclusive. While her work is mainly focused on female empowerment, I think that what she says touches on something super important: the spoken truth of marginalized people is inherently…