diff --git a/11ty/definitions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder.md b/11ty/definitions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..14e71402 --- /dev/null +++ b/11ty/definitions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) +slug: obsessive-compulsive-disorder +flag: + level: avoid + text: Medical Appropriation +defined: true +speech: noun +alt_words: + - conscientious + - exact + - fastidious + - fussy + - meticulous + - nitpicky + - particular + - precise + - quirky + - thorough +--- + +a mental illness usually embodied by unwanted repeated thoughts (obsession) coupled with repeated behaviour, routine, or action (compulsion) + +#### Issues + +OCD is commonly misused to highlight personality quirks or fussiness, usually involving a preference for order or cleanliness. Use of 'OCD' as a noun or adjective in this manner diminishes the actual condition, resulting in reductive and over-normalised perception of a someone with these specific mental or psychiatric disabilities. + +#### Impact + +By conflating arbitrary quirks or behaviours with OCD, we are invalidating OCD as a medical condition and the people who experience it. Generally by using medically appropriative language, we are invalidating the existences of people with OCD, minimising their experiences, perpetuating violence against people who experience mental or psychological disabilities. Using this language perpetuates those systems and language of harm, regardless of our intent. + +#### Usage Tip + +Be more specific. Typically we can find an alternate definition by simply reflecting on what emotion we're really feeling. In this case, be particularly aware if the behaviour is actually unwanted or uncontrollable. diff --git a/11ty/definitions/performative-allyship.md b/11ty/definitions/performative-allyship.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67b89516 --- /dev/null +++ b/11ty/definitions/performative-allyship.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: performative allyship +slug: performative-allyship +defined: true +speech: noun +flag: + level: tool + text: White Supremacy Tool +reading: + - text: Are you practicing performative allyship? + href: http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/07/09/are-you-practicing-performative-allyship/ + - text: Is This Your Queen? Ellen Pompeo, Growth and Performative White Allyship + href: https://www.theroot.com/is-this-your-queen-ellen-pompeo-growth-and-performati-1830593400 + - text: 'Performative allyship: what it is, what it looks like, and why we want to avoid it.' + href: https://www.scarymommy.com/performative-allyship-what-it-is-what-it-looks-like-and-why-we-want-to-avoid-it/ +--- + +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. + +#### Impact + +Performative allyship detracts from the stories of the oppressed and the impact that oppression has on them in favour of the stories of the oppressors and their intent to help. The cost of performative allyship can also be that the stories of the oppressed people are appropriated, watered down, and inaccurately retold by people who should not be telling those stories.