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Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

By Meagan Nolan

November 28, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

The role of an editor is to ensure throughout each stage of the editing process that the writer communicates their view of the world to the reader in the best way possible. With such a responsibility, editors should look at the ways in which the language and manuscripts they edit affect the world around them. Editors should look at how the representation of life and people on the page shape and change society’s understanding of real people in the real world. To gain further distance on the path towards impartial inclusion, here are some tips for inclusive and mindful editing in regards to the LGBTQ community.

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Work-Life Imbalance

By Rachel Lulich rmlulich

July 20, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Work-Life Imbalance

School, work, and life: The graduate school trifecta. It can be demanding, especially around finals week. Thankfully, the only thing at stake is our futures, a fact we’re so much more aware of than we were as undergraduates. So no pressure. Everyone’s work-life situation is unique to them; the only thing we have in common […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: balance, graduate studies, life, nontraditional student, Ooligan, work

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