Episode 82
Understanding microaggressions in editing
The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
January 19, 202231m 35s
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Show Notes
Improve your understanding of microaggressions during the editing process and how to serve your author well regardless of your own identity and lived experience.
Listen to find out more about
- What microaggressions are
- Microaggressions in editing
- Why microaggressions occur during the editing process
- How microaggressions affect writers
- Why it's important for editors to know about microaggressions
- How editors can avoid doing this type of harm in their work
- How editors can learn about what they don’t know
Resources and links
- Conscious Style Guide
- Crystal Shelley, Rabbit with a Red Pen
- Fuhrmann, Henry, ‘Drop the hyphen in Asian American’, Conscious Style Guide, 2018
- King, Ruth, Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, Sounds True Inc, 2018
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Denise and Louise
- Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
- Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/