Resource Library
Anti-Racism for Medical Educators
Use this tool from UCSF to review the use of language in your materials.
Beyond Terminology: Zooming Out to Focus on Bias
Remarks from “Is This Racist? How Editors Can Identify Hidden Bias” at the 2017 ACES: The Society for Editing conference.
CDC Language Guide: Simply Put
This CDC guide for creating easy-to-understand materials helps communicators develop messages that are clear and understandable.
Do Ask, Do Tell
Do Ask, Do Tell: A Toolkit for Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information in Clinical Settings will help you better understand the health issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals.
Everyday Words for Public Health Communication
Everyday Words for Public Health Communication offers expert recommendations from CDC's Health Literacy Council and other agency communicators on how to reduce jargon and improve readers' understanding.
Federal Plain Language Guidelines
This U.S. government site provides official guidelines for the Plain Writing Act of 2010.
GLAAD Media Reference Guide
GLAAD’s Media Reference Guide, now in its 11th edition, offers education and guidance on telling LGBTQ people’s stories in ways that bring out the best in journalism.
Rochester Racial Justice Toolkit
This Toolkit is a compilation of articles, guides, news, videos, social media, and other tools from several online sources on racial justice and Black Lives Matter activism.
The Radical Copyeditor
Radical copyediting helps language live up to its most radical potential—serving the ends of access, inclusion, and liberation, rather than maintaining oppression and the status quo.
Understanding Gender
Understandings of gender continually evolve. In the course of a person’s life, the interests, activities, clothing, and professions that are considered the domain of one gender or another evolve in ways both small and large.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
WebAIM: Keyboard Accessibility
This guide explains best practices for keyboard accessibility, one of the most important aspects of web accessibility.
What Is Racism?
The definition of racism offered here by Dismantling Racism is grounded in Critical Race Theory, a movement started in the 1970s by activists and scholars committed to the study and transformation of traditional relationships of race to racism and power.
Why Language Matters: Facing HIV Stigma in Our Own Words
The words people use to talk about HIV affect the way people living with HIV feel about themselves. These words also have an impact on how others view people living with HIV.