Style Guide for Inclusive Language

This style guide is intended to provide guidelines for ways that we can employ inclusive language and integrate a racial equity lens in our writing. However, this document is not intended to be an end-all-be-all; rather, it is a place to start thinking about the ways we write.  

While this style guide has guidelines for inclusive writing, we should always use the terms preferred by affected populations, when we know them. If the guidelines provided here are contrary to what you, as an expert in your field, know to be the correct or appropriate terminology, you should continue to use the terms that are correct for your work.