The Word is Woman #49

Documenting the erasure of women from language and life.

Welcome to the Issue #49 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.

It’s Friday again, dear readers, and time for our weekly foray into the world of erasure.

Dear lord no, not that Erasure! I mean the kind where they fall over backwards not to say the W word,…