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Dear GFPs,

Since I last wrote to you something terribly sad has happened: Debbie Cameron, the sociolinguist and author of several highly influential feminist books on language, has died of pancreatic cancer. She was only sixty-seven.

For anyone who has heard me speak about my personal journey to feminism, you will know how important Debbie’s writing was f…