The Word is Woman #3

Documenting the erasure of women from language and life.

Welcome to the third issue of a new section of The Mule, The Word is Woman, where I document examples of the erasure of women from both language and public life.

For the past two years, ever since I spoke out about language changes in maternity such as ‘birthing people’, I have been sent hundreds of examples of convolutions of language in which the word…