by Laura Brooke Robson | Dec 2, 2019 | Archives
As a certified Internet User™, I’ve seen a lot of re-spellings of the word “women” recently. Wimmin, womyn, and womxn 1Womxn, in particular, aims not just to deemphasize the suffix -man but to specifically include transgender people and people of color, which wimmin...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 17, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Writing
In rewriting my book for the seventeenth time, I realized that I will go to extreme lengths to avoid certain difficult rules of grammar and syntax. I would rather rewrite the whole paragraph than choose between “It is me” and “It is I.” 9For the record, it’s “It is I”...