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Alex Lau, an Asian-American journalist who photographed many of the magazine’s top restaurant features, recently resigned, in part because of such issues. “I left BA for multiple reasons, but one of the main reasons was that white leadership refused to make changes that my BIPOC co-workers and I constantly pushed for,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday, using an acronym for Black, Indigenous, People of Color.
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There are similar concerns about use of the collective and abbreviated terms for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) (commonly used in the UK).
Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals For Authors 2021
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When do we use the phrase “people of color”; when do we say “BIPOC,” which stands for Black and Indigenous people of color; and when do we just say “Black”?
Why the term "BIPOC" is so complicated, explained by linguists Constance Grady 2020
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Her book, We Have A Dream, highlighting young BIPOC (black, Indigenous and people of colour) environmentalists from around the world, comes out on 5 August.
Do I look cheugy in this? What can a gen Z makeover teach me about life? Hannah Marriott 2021
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