Magazine apologises for censoring my words to remove 'woman' and 'female'.

Good to Know say they have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again

Oct 20, 2023

∙ Paid

Some news for you. Many of you have followed the story I shared on 7th September of how quotes I gave to the online magazine Good to Know for an article about periods, were changed to take out all reference to women and females, apparently at the request of Always, who were sponsoring the piece.

You can read the full story here:

How pad company Always censored my words to remove 'woman'

Milli Hill

September 7, 2023

How pad company Always censored my words to remove 'woman'

I almost can’t quite believe what I’m about to type. As some of you know, for the last three weeks I’ve been writing a new section of this newsletter, The Word is Woman. It documents the erasure of women from language and life. My specific focus is on recording instances of other words being used to replace ‘woman’. You can read the first two editions

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