Vee White

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Join us May 8th for a discussion on using language for liberation and embracing creativity and flexibility as tools for inclusion with @karenyin.bsky.social!

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You have my sword! I love nothing more than speaking to a room full of grammar snobs and telling them, as a person who writes their dictionaries, that what they think of as "good grammar" is just codified classism/sexism/racism/etc., and they should stop policing other people's speech.

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Registration ends Monday but you can also reach out via email to give feedback if you can’t attend the live event.

Please join us for an important conversation! The AMA style manual committee will be considering our feedback. Registration ends Monday but you can also reach out to give feedback via email if you can’t attend the live event.

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Rescheduled for April 24th. If you're a medical editor or writer who is LGBTQIA2S+, please join us!

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I am deeply inspired by my co-panelists, and it was wonderful to hear how the panel resonated with several in attendance. I hope it leads to continuing discussion. Thanks for including us #ACES2024 organizers!

Image of Vee White standing wearing a black collared shirt with a gray vest and holding a mic while speaking, smiling, and looking at Crystal and Cynthia. Crystal Shelley sits on the far right and is laughing. Cynthia Williams sits in the middle and is wearing glasses and a mask and is smiling

CaTyra Polland is speaking at the podium. She is wearing a cream and gold dress and is motioning with her hands

Image of Vee smiling on the left with sticker that says "highly attended session." Header says ACES 2024 San Diego Thursday April 4, 20204. The remainder of the image includes the session title, which is Making the Invisible Visible: Editors as Changemakers

Title of image says Making the Invisible Visible: Editors as Changemakers. There is an open book icon to the left and body text on the right that says: “[Culture] does not just passively exist …. It has continually to be renewed, recreated, defended,” according to academic Raymond Williams. As editors, we often think of our work as invisible and even as intended to be so. Join us to discuss how we can be visible and create positive change within our profession, including making book publishing and the wider editorial profession more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. We’ll focus on creating a profession we all find value in and feel valued in, and on exploring the role editors play in renewing, re-creating, and defending our professional and wider cultures

Thankful for the opportunity to present the panel "Making the Invisible Visible: Editors as Changemakers" with CaTyra Polland, @redpenrabbit.bsky.social, and Cynthia Williams at the @acesediting.bsky.social San Diego 2024 conference last week.

(Photos courtesy of Letitia Henville.)

Still processing so many excellent takeaways from this year’s @acesediting.bsky.social San Diego conference, but at the forefront of my mind is @karenyin.bsky.social’s statement:

“Gatekeepers can also be gate openers.”

#ACES2024

If you're an LGBTQIA2S+ medical editor or writer, I hope you'll join us! We're meeting April 10 to discuss gender identity and conscious, inclusive, bias-free language in medical communications, research, and patient education materials. Register below.
#MedicalEditors #MedicalWriters #LGBTQEditors

Since Oct 7th, NYT reported on antisemitism 5 times more often than on Islamophobia

The Times mentioned Israel and Israelis more often than others in their coverage each week since October 7th ... while the death toll in Gaza surpassed 25 times the Israeli death toll as of March

Times coverage of the war on Gaza quoted both Israeli and American sources more often than Palestinian ones

The Times used passive voice to describe Palestinians 1.7 times more often than when describing Israelis ...and used active voice with different vocabulary

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

If interested in the results of the international survey on plagiarism, the article Andrea Klingler and I are writing about it, or the online course Caitlin and I are writing, you can sign up for updates:
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ACES logo on left. Top of image says Unleashing Creativity. Body of image says I’m speaking at ACES 2024 San Diego April 4-6 2024

Abstract image lower left. Slide title says Core Objectives. Bulleted list says: Learn persistent myths and assumptions on plagiarism and copyright. Understand the types of plagiarism and how to identify and communicate about it. Learn best practices for evaluating permissions, and the basic workflow for how permissions are obtained. Explore how Al is beginning to affect all areas of this topic.

Abstract image upper right. Text says: Overview Considerations Myths & Assumptions So, What Is Plagiarism? Copyright and Permissions: The Basics What About Al? Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion What Role Do Editors Have? Key Takeaways

Abstract image lower left with text that says Plagiarism and Copyright in an Age of Content Recycling, AI, and Global Discourse

Excited to present "Plagiarism and Copyright in an Age of Content Recycling, AI, and Global Discourse" at the @acesediting.bsky.social San Diego conference with Caitlin O'Brien. I hope you'll join us! You can review our core objectives and an overview of the topics in the slide images. #ACES2024

Every time I attend one of our @lgbtqeditors.bsky.social meetings it reminds me why I've dedicated so much time to founding and growing the org. I'm so grateful to our board members, volunteers, and members who are building this resource and community. Thank you Sam Keir for hosting today's meeting!

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Top of image has the ACES logo with the conference theme "Unleashing Creativity" made to look like a lightbulb. Bottom of the image is on a salmon-colored background and says: I'm speaking at ACES 2024 San Diego April 4-6, 2024. Breakout sessions, coffee chats, exhibitors, sponsors. Very bottom provides the link aceseditors.org/conference

Text is set in white over a salmon-colored background with a book icon on the left and the hashtag #ACES2024 at the bottom. Title text reads: Making the Invisible Visible: Editors as Changemakers. Body text reads: “[Culture] does not just passively exist …. It has continually to be renewed, recreated, defended,” according to academic Raymond Williams. As editors, we often think of our work as invisible and even as intended to be so. Join us to discuss how we can be visible and create positive change within our profession, including making book publishing and the wider editorial profession more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. We’ll focus on creating a profession we all find value in and feel valued in, and on exploring the role editors play in renewing, re-creating, and defending our professional and wider cultures.

So happy @acesediting.bsky.social accepted our panel "Making the Invisible Visible: Editors as Changemakers" for the 2024 conference. Cynthia Williams, @redpenrabbit.bsky.social, and CaTyra Polland are doing amazing work, and I'm thrilled to collaborate with them!

#ACES2024 #DiversityinPublishing

Thanks for the boost and helping build the editing community on here!

It was by far one of the highlights of the past year for me. There is a table with terms and definitions, and it's an open access publication.

Thank you Jesse Moreira-Bouchard and Karla Haack (the lead authors) for including me and for using your research and work to further equity, diversity, and inclusion in science and medicine.

Last year, I was asked to help coauthor an article on a clear, inclusive, and accurate approach to collecting demographic information for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals in clinical research and medical practice:

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#HealthEquity #DiversityinMedicine

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Thank you so much for all you do, Karen! I wish I could have given more than my small amount. We need more of the Conscious Style Guide and the Editors of Color database in the world!

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It's #GivingTuesday! Please support the Editors of Color Database, one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2023. No amount is too small. All contributions go toward running this site. Thank you for helping me celebrate editors of color.

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Excited and grateful to announce our new accessibility coordinator!

#LGBTQEditors #QueerEditors #TransEditors
#DiversityInPublishing #AmEditing #Accessibility

I am THRILLED Cathy Hannabach has joined us as our new mentorship coordinator! Starting a mentorship program for LGBTQIA+ editors is one of the primary reasons I founded our organization. We’re incredibly lucky to have Cathy leading this program with her wealth of experience and leadership skills.

Such excellent #StetPets. Now I just need to get Max a sweater to match Helo’s!

"The Grammar Daily" comes out one month from today!
I'm going to ramp up promotion, and I hope you'll bear with me.

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me and @kirbyconrod.bsky.social just presented our talk at #NWAV51 on #singularThey reflexive forms (themself and themselves) -- find the handout here! bit.ly/nwav51-thems...
#linguistics