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* Added excerpt for ok-hand * Added excerpt for AsAm * Added excerpt for East Asian * Added excerpt for South Asian * Added excerpt for SE Asian * Added excerpt for bierasure * Added excerpt for biromantic * Added excerpt for bisexual * Added excerpt for cisgender * Added excerpt for crazy * Add excerpt for dumb * Add excerpt for derpy * Add excerpt for digital blackface * Add excerpt for dude * Add excerpt for ESL * Add excerpt for fatphobia * Add excerpt for gaslighting * Add excerpt for gender pronouns * Add excerpt for Hispanic * Add excerpt for hysterical * Add excerpt for latino * Add excerpt for latinx * Add excerpt for mansplain * Add excerpt for minorities * Add excerpt for minoritised * Add excerpt for neopronouns * Add excerpt for non-binary * Add excerpt for OCD * Add excerpt for Oriental * Add excerpt for ORM * Add excerpt for pansexual * Add excerpt for performative allyship * Add excerpt for polyamory * Add excerpt for pow-wow * Add excerpt for preferred pronouns * Add excerpt for pronouns * Add excerpt for r-word * Add excerpt for sane * Add excerpt for sanity check * Add excerpt for savage * Add excerpt for spaz * Add excerpt for suicide * Add excerpt for tone deaf * Add excerpt for transfeminine * Add excerpt for URM * Add excerpt for unreal * Add excerpt for white feminism * Add excerpt for white fragility * Add excerpt for women and people of colour * Add excerpt for transgender * Fix spelling for "existence" Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac <github@tatianamac.com> * Fix wording for digital blackface excerpt Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac <github@tatianamac.com> * Add indicators for flag levels Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac <github@tatianamac.com> * Revert "Add indicators for flag levels" This reverts commit a291d5fa668156970e2496710bd6c39a53819e1b, because the flag level is already indicated in the excerpt structure. Co-authored-by: Oscar <ovlb@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac <github@tatianamac.com> Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac <tatiana.t.mac@gmail.com>
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title: Asian-American
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slug: asian-american
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defined: true
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excerpt: umbrella term for people of Asian descent (immigrant or natural born) who live in and/or are from the United States.
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speech: noun
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skip_in_table_of_content: true
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slug: bierasure
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speech: noun
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defined: true
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excerpt: the questioning or denial of the existence or legitimacy of bisexuality
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reading:
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- text: Erasure of Bisexuality
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href: https://www.glaad.org/bisexual/bierasure
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slug: biromantic
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speech: adj
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defined: true
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excerpt: of, relating to, or characterised by being romantically attracted to more than one gender.
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reading:
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- text: Sorting Out Romantic vs Sexual Feelings
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href: http://teenhealthsource.com/blog/faq-sorting-out-romantic-vs-sexual-feelings/
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slug: bisexual
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speech: adj
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defined: true
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excerpt: of, relating to, or characterised by being sexually attracted to more than one gender.
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reading:
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- text: Am I Bisexual?
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href: http://www.bisexualindex.org.uk/index.php/AmIBisexual
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slug: cisgender
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speech: adj
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defined: true
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excerpt: of, relating to, or characterised by being a gender that matches the gender they were assigned at birth
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of, relating to, or characterised by being a gender that matches the gender they were assigned at birth.
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text: 'Ableist language'
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: mentally deranged, insane; can be used in a derogatory manner for someone with mental or psychiatric disabilities
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- abundant
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text: 'Ableist Term'
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: clumsy, foolish, unattractive, or otherwise unintelligent act or person.
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speech: adjective
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alt_words:
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- ridiculous
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title: digital Blackface
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slug: digital-blackface
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defined: true
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excerpt: a form of appropriation where non-Black individuals use memes and imagery featuring Black people and dark-skinned emojis
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Speech: noun
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reading:
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- text: We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs
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title: dude
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slug: dude
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defined: true
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excerpt: colloquially, a man; a discourse marker expressing masculine solidarity; an expression of astonishment when used alone
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flag:
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level: avoid
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alt_words:
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text: 'ableist language'
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: non-verbal, non-speaking, silent, refraining from speaking or unable to speak; sometimes __mute__ which can also be ableist; colloquially used to mean unintelligent or senseless
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speech: adjective
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alt_words:
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- basic
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title: East Asian
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slug: east-asian
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defined: true
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excerpt: umbrella term for people of East Asian descent; countries include China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
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speech: noun
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skip_in_table_of_content: true
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flag:
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: the teaching of English to people who speak a different language and who live in a country where English is the main language spoken
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- English as learning-language (ELL)
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title: Fatphobia
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slug: fatphobia
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defined: true
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excerpt: the fear, hatred, and stigmitasation of fat people.
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speech: noun
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skip_in_table_of_content: true
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flag:
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title: Gaslighting
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slug: gaslighting
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defined: true
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excerpt: psychological manipulation tactic used to abuse by instilling doubt in the victim's own thoughts, observations, feelings by denying, misdirecting, and lying to them; from the Gaslight play (1933) and film (1944)
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speech: noun
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flag:
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level: tool
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title: Gender pronouns
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slug: gender-pronouns
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defined: true
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excerpt: often used to mean pronouns
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---
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gender pronouns are often used to mean [pronouns](/definitions/pronouns).
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title: Hispanic
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slug: hispanic
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defined: true
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excerpt: umbrella term for people of Spanish, or Spanish-speaking ancestry; considered a pan-ethnic term
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reading:
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- text: "Remezcla: Hispanic vs. Latino vs. Latinx: A Brief History of How These Words Originated"
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href: https://remezcla.com/features/culture/latino-vs-hispanic-vs-latinx-how-these-words-originated/
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title: hysterical
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slug: hysterical
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defined: true
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excerpt: feeling or showing uncontrollable outburst of emotion; casually, very funny
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speech: adjective
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flag:
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level: avoid
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title: Latin American/Latino/Latina
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slug: latino
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defined: true
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excerpt: umbrella term for people of Latin American ancestry; Latino (and Latina) are inherently gendered terms, see Latinx for gender neutral form; considered a pan-ethnic term
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reading:
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- text: "Remezcla: Hispanic vs. Latino vs. Latinx: A Brief History of How These Words Originated"
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href: https://remezcla.com/features/culture/latino-vs-hispanic-vs-latinx-how-these-words-originated/
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title: Latinx
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slug: latinx
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defined: true
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excerpt: increasingly popular alternative in the United States to the gendered Latino/Latina; considered a pan-ethnic term
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reading:
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- text: "Remezcla: Hispanic vs. Latino vs. Latinx: A Brief History of How These Words Originated"
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href: https://remezcla.com/features/culture/latino-vs-hispanic-vs-latinx-how-these-words-originated/
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slug: mansplain
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speech: verb
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defined: true
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excerpt: the act of explaining (usually by a man) something without asking consent to do so, often to someone who already knows and/or after someone else has already explained it (usually a woman or femme person)
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reading:
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- text: "Rebecca Solnit's 'Men Explain Things to Me' (2008)"
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href: https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-men-explain-things-to-me/
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flag:
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole; can be inaccurate and vague
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- minoritised
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title: minoritised
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slug: minoritised
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defined: true
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excerpt: groups resulting from social constructs have been granted less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society; preferable as a term to minorities for its focus on power struggle
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speech: adj
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flag:
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level: better-alternative
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title: neopronouns
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slug: neopronouns
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defined: true
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excerpt: a set of words that go alongside traditional third-person pronouns (he/she/singular they) such as ze/zir, ze/hir, xe/xem, and plural they.
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speech: noun
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reading:
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- text: "LGBTA Wiki: Neopronouns"
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slug: non-binary
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speech: adj
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defined: true
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excerpt: of, relating to, or characterised by being any gender that does not fit into the male-female gender binary; an umbrella term.
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of, relating to, or characterised by being any gender that does not fit into the male-female gender binary; an umbrella term.
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level: avoid
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text: Medical Appropriation
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defined: true
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excerpt: a mental illness usually embodied by unwanted repeated thoughts (obsession) coupled with repeated behaviour, routine, or action (compulsion); often misused to highlight personality quirks or fussiness usually involved with cleaning
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- conscientious
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text: 'Racist Symbol'
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: hand gesture where right thumb and right index finger form a circle; typically used for confirmation or as the number nine in American Sign Language, now appropriated as White Supremacist symbol
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- 👍
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title: Oriental
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slug: oriental
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defined: true
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excerpt: racist alternative to Asian/Asian-American; embodies Eastern culture as "strange, exotic, dirty, effeminate, weak" as explained in Edward Said's book Orientalism
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text: 'racist term'
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level: avoid
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title: overrepresented majority (ORM)
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slug: overrepresented-majority
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defined: true
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excerpt: group resulting from social constructs have grant less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society; acts as a contrast to underrepresented minority (URM)
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speech: noun
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flag:
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level: better-alternative
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slug: pansexual
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speech: adj
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defined: true
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excerpt: someone who is sexually attracted to people regardless of their gender, or to people of any gender.
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reading:
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- text: 'Pansexuality and Being Pansexual: Everything You Need to Know'
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href: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-pansexuality
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title: performative allyship
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slug: performative-allyship
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defined: true
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excerpt: when an individual or group of power/majority/privilege (e.g., white, male, abled, unqueer, etc) loudly profess(es) their actions in the name of 'allyship,' while actively conducting harm to, taking focus away from, and generally being unhelpful towards the group they claim to support, often to receive praise and attention, without taking critical action to dismantle the systems of harm.
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speech: noun
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level: tool
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slug: polyamory
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speech: noun
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defined: true
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excerpt: belief that romantic and/or sexual exclusivity is not necessary for a happy, committed relationship; an umbrella term for various types of relationships (coded as romantic or quasi-romantic, sexual or non-sexual) where all partners involved consent to ethical non-monogamy, such as polycules, throuples, group marriages, etc.
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reading:
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- text: 'My definition of polyamory'
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href: https://avris.it/blog/my-definition-of-polyamory
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title: pow-wow
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slug: pow-wow
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defined: true
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excerpt: social gathering, ceremony, or celebrations held in different Native American communities that can be spiritually symbolic in nature, involve dancing and regalia, and involve months of planning with hundreds of people in attendance; colloquially is culturally appropriated and used to mean "to meet" (verb) or meeting, working session, or gathering (noun); from Narragansett word powwaw, meaning "spiritual leader"
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speech: noun or verb
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text: 'avoid'
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: a word that substitutes for a noun, in particular, a person's name; may not necessarily align with their gender presentation or their gender identity; the addition of the word 'preferred' should be avoided as it implies a person's pronouns is a choice
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- pronoun
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slug: pronouns
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speech: noun
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defined: true
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excerpt: a word that substitutes for a noun, in particular, a person's name; a person's pronouns does not necessarily align with their gender presentation or their gender identity
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reading:
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- text: "Merriam-Webster: Words We're Watching: Singular They"
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href: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they
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title: R-word
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slug: r-word
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defined: true
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excerpt: previously used in a medical context as an umbrella term for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD); typically used in a modern context as a denigrating term for a person with an I/DD, or a derogatory term to compare someone without an I/DD to someone with an I/DD
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text: 'Medical appropriation'
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defined: true
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excerpt: of sound mind, mentally healthy; the connotation that sanity ((being neurotypical or mentally well and abled) is good implies that insanity (being neurodivergent or mentally ill and disabled) is bad
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speech: noun
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- logical
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text: 'Ableist language'
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defined: true
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excerpt: a basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true; when expressed literally, examines if the author of a test was sane when they wrote it; commonly used in software engineering to assess whether something is reasonable and sound or meets its goals/acceptance criteria.
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speech: noun
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slug: savage
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defined: true
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excerpt: (adj) not domesticated, primative or civilised; wild, uncultivated; cold-blooded; colloquially used to mean ruthless or unconscionable. (noun) an undomesticated person, subhuman. historically used to by European settlers to dehumanize Indigenous peoples
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text: racist slur
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title: South Asian
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slug: south-asian
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defined: true
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excerpt: umbrella term for people of South Asian descent; countries include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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speech: noun
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title: Southeast Asian
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slug: southeast-asian
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excerpt: umbrella term for people of Southeast Asian descent; the two main subregions are Mainland Southeast Asia and Maritime Southeast Asia
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text: 'Ableist Slur'
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defined: true
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excerpt: irrationally nervous person; hyperactive; a shortened version of "spastic", an alteration in muscle tone affected by the medical condition spasticity, which is seen in spastic diplegia and many other forms of cerebral palsy.
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speech: noun
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title: suicide
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slug: suicide
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defined: true
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excerpt: the deliberate act of voluntarily ending one's own life. Motivation for suicide can be the result of conscious or unconscious thoughts and feelings.
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speech: noun
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excerpt: amusia, a neurological disorder that can be congenital (from birth) or acquired (due to comorbidity or injury) that results in the inability to differentiate speech, loss of ability to sing or produce pitch, or other disassociations with music (like rhythm); colloquially, when something is insensitive or poorly thought through.
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slug: transfeminine
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defined: true
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excerpt: describes a [transgender](/definitions/transgender) person for whom femininity forms part of their gender.
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describes a [transgender](/definitions/transgender) person for whom femininity forms part of their gender.
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slug: transgender
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defined: true
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excerpt: of, relating to, or characterised by a gender that does not match the gender they were assigned at birth.
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of, relating to, or characterised by a gender that does not match the gender they were assigned at birth.
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title: underrepresented minority (URM)
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slug: underrepresented-minority
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defined: true
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excerpt: group whose representation is disproportionately less than their proportion in the general population; often racial or ethnic minority is implied, but can be used to represent any identifier, such as LGBTQIA+, disabled, gender, etc. often abbreviated as URM
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slug: unreal
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excerpt: very impressive; amazing; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
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excerpt: a form of "feminism" that prioritises the issues of and denies the privileges of abled, white, [cisgender](/definitions/cisgender), hetero Western/Anglo women, while ignoring to outwardly denying the issues of disabled, Black/brown, trans, queer women; actively denies intersectional forms of oppression including but not limited to racism, sexism, transmisia, Islamomisia, queermisia.
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flag:
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level: tool
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text: white supremacy tool
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title: White fragility
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slug: white-fragility
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defined: true
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excerpt: the tendency for dominant white culture to respond to racism with defensive, dismissive, and angry responses; “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.” (Robin DiAngelo).
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speech: noun
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flag:
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level: tool
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flag:
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level: avoid
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defined: true
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excerpt: often used as a phrase to encompass “non-white, non-men,” seeking to provide solidarity for these two groups; erases women of colour, non-binary individuals
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speech: noun
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alt_words:
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- people of colour and white women
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