In this month’s Friends Journal, I have a little piece in response to the NY Times article from Teresa M. Bejan, “What Quakers Can Teach Us About the Politics of Pronouns.” That article is useful and made its rounds on the Quaker Internet pretty thoroughly. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you read it. My piece is less a direct response to the points she makes about pronouns, I support the use of inclusive pronouns and even the alternative “Friend” in place of a pronoun, that Peterson Toscano has suggested elsewhere and that the Public Universal Friend utilized.
I was more interested in the Quaker response to the article, as described here:
As readers of this blog, I think you will enjoy both the New York Times article and the Friends Journal response.