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How well is the corporate world embracing DEI? (Wordnerdery)

How well is the corporate world embracing DEI? (Wordnerdery)

by Sue Horner | Jul 19, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

Pride Month may be over, but the need for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at work is only getting stronger. Building on that idea, the theme for the June issue of the newsletter I edit for IABC/Toronto’s independent professionals was “pride and inclusion.”...
ICYMI, March edition: Readability + inclusive language links you might have missed

ICYMI, March edition: Readability + inclusive language links you might have missed

by Sue Horner | Apr 12, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

“The vast majority of your social posts will never be seen by the vast majority of your followers.” So says Michael J. Katz, who helps professional service firms talk and write about their work. Oh sure, posts made on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc., are “around for...
Don’t settle: ‘Performative diversity’ isn’t enough to support DE&I progress

Don’t settle: ‘Performative diversity’ isn’t enough to support DE&I progress

by Sue Horner | Nov 9, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

Is your company doing the important work that supports diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I)? Or is it settling for “performative diversity”? The subject came up after I shared an article on social media that listed some “easy ways” communicators could support...
Here’s how to make a difference to diversity (Wordnerdery)

Here’s how to make a difference to diversity (Wordnerdery)

by Sue Horner | Oct 22, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

If your company looks “male, pale and stale” at the top, there’s a lot you as a communication or PR person can do about it. That’s according to participants in the Diversity in PR conference I attended recently. Right now, most of us are in Diversity 1.0....
Let’s not let others be treated as ‘less than‘

Let’s not let others be treated as ‘less than‘

by Sue Horner | Jun 13, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

They weren’t hugged, even though some were as young as three. They weren’t comforted at being separated from their families. They weren’t fed properly or protected from abuse. And at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., 215 Indigenous children were buried in...
He/she/they: Here’s why it’s actually kind to share your personal pronouns

He/she/they: Here’s why it’s actually kind to share your personal pronouns

by Sue Horner | May 28, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

It’s not about me. That’s what I’ve realized about adding “she/her” to my profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter, Zoom and elsewhere. Here’s why. The pronouns we use when speaking of someone often imply a gender, such as “she”  or “her” to refer to a woman or girl....
Black boxes are easy. Taking action is hard

Black boxes are easy. Taking action is hard

by Sue Horner | Jun 4, 2020 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

This week, black boxes like the one here flooded social media. It began when music-industry veterans Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang asked the industry to “pause” work on June 2 in solidarity with the Black community, and to protest the killing of George Floyd,...

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