About weird dots and strange new words

Wondering what these weird dots and strange word are about?

You know enough hashtag#French to see that it's a bit unusual, even if you have seen these in ads or articles lately.

It's about being hashtag#inclusive. About giving visibility to all hashtag#genders in all texts.
French, like other languages of the Romance family, is hashtag#binary gender based. It has a hashtag#masculine and a hashtag#feminine form for nouns, pronouns, articles, adjectives, and so on, and the masculine form is the predominant one, the “neutral" form.
Society is opening to hashtag#genderequality, hashtag#genderfluidity, and other hashtag#genderidentification, and it's vital that written communication finds ways to reflect it.

Changing a whole mindset and hashtag#grammar system is no easy task.
The French-speaking world is actively reflecting on the best way to include everyone in public texts, and so far there are 9 possible hashtag#writingtechniques.
Not all of them are perceived the same way, and they all can be applied in different types of texts.

To learn more and be able to better advise my clients on the subject, I had the privilege and pleasure to participate in the hashtag#workshop "Du bon usage de l’écriture inclusive" with the knowledgeable and didactic Anne Vervier, otherwise known for her "language clair" advocacy.
It was enlightening and fun!