The Word is Woman #40
Documenting the erasure of women from language and life - and Instagram.
Welcome to the Issue #40 of The Word is Woman, a weekly section of my substack where I document examples of the erasure of women from both language and public life.
For the past three 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 …