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Inclusive Language Guide

Oxford: Oxfam (2023), 92 pp.

ISBN 978-1-78748-761-1

"At Oxfam it is important that the language we use reflects our values and work. Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. Choices in language can empower us to reframe issues, rewrite tired stories, challenge problematic ideas and build a radically better future based on a survivor-centred, intersectional, anti-racist and feminist vision of equality." (Page 5)
The power of language, 4
Feminist principles for language use, 10
Disability, physical and mental health, 15
Gender justice, sexual diversity and women's rights, 22
Migration, 52
Race, power and decolonization, 60