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Consulting The Diversity Style Guide
The language and verbiage used to discuss topics like race, gender, and sexual identity are at the forefront of many conversations these days, and they're important conversations to have! Language is nuanced and complicated and, above all, ever-changing.
There are words previously used for specific societal demographics that now feel wildly inappropriate and out-of-date. And that will certainly be the case going forward with the terms we currently use. Only time will tell which words and phrases we'll consider "off-color."
It's not easy to stay up-to-date on the best language to use, so we figured it would be helpful to provide a resource, and so we present
The Diversity Style Guide. The guide contains some 700 terms, with explanations of their meaning and how they should or should not be used. It focuses on "race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography."
The guide is edited by Rachele Kanigel, a journalism professor at San Francisco State University, and is a product of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism that the school hosted in an effort to make journalism more inclusive.
Use the menu at the top to sort specifically by topic (LGBTQ+, for example) and locate further resources like other style guides, information from other institutions, and other tools and guides for journalists.
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