Self-Defined
-A modern dictionary about us. We define our words, but they don't define us.
-For now, this stands as a list only, from which you can self-educate. +
+ A modern dictionary about us. We define our words, but they don't define us.
For now, this stands as a list only, from which you can self-educate.
Future phases will include definitions and resources.
Participate
-Send unlisted words to or chat about volunteering to help: @tatianatmac on Twitter.
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+ Participate
+ Send unlisted words to or chat about volunteering to help: @tatianatmac on Twitter.
A-E
- Ablelism
- American @@ -80,12 +81,18 @@ Future phases will include definitions and resources.
- Egalitarian
- Empathy
- enby +
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Entitlement
- Equality
- Equity
- Fem
- Femme
- Ethnicity +
F-L
+- Gender
- Cis
- -Fluid @@ -121,117 +128,278 @@ Future phases will include definitions and resources.
- Jihad
- Latinx
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- Marginalized -
- Matriarchy -
- Medication sensitive -
- Militarization -
- Minority -
- Misogynoir -
- Neurodivergent -
- Neurotypical -
- non binary -
- -Normative -
- cis -
- hetero -
- Oppression -
- Internalized -
- Other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED) -
- Panic attacks -
- Pansexual -
- -passing -
- female- -
- male- -
- white- -
- Parachuting -
- Patriarchy -
- Performative allyship -
- People of Color (PoC) -
- People with disabilities -
- -phile -
- andro -
- gyne -
- Platonic -
- Queer -
- Polyamory -
- Positivism -
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -
- power -
- Poz -
- Prejudice -
- Pride -
- Pride, First (Anti-Police Riots) + -
- Prophylaxis -
- Pre-exposure (PreEP) -
- Post-exposure (PEP) -
- Privilege -
- Cis -
- Monosexual -
- White +
- Marginalized +
- Matriarchy +
- Medication sensitive +
- Militarization +
- Minorities +
- Minoritised +
- Misogynoir +
- Neurodivergent +
- Neurotypical +
- non binary +
- -Normative +
- cis +
- hetero +
- Oppression +
- Internalized +
- Other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED) +
- Panic attacks +
- Pansexual +
- -passing +
- female- +
- male- +
- white- +
- Parachuting +
- Patriarchy +
- Performative allyship +
- People of Color (PoC) +
- People with disabilities +
- -phile +
- andro +
- gyne +
- Platonic +
- Queer +
- Polyamory +
- Positivism +
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder +
- power +
- Poz +
- Prejudice +
- Pride +
- Pride, First (Anti-Police Riots) -
- Race -
- Racial -
- Contract -
- Formation -
- State -
- Raciology -
- Racism -
- Racist -
- Savior -
- White -
- Semitic -
- Serodiscordant -
- settler -
- colonial mentality -
- Sexual -
- assault of a minor -
- orientation -
- Socially constructed -
- Solidarity -
- -Splaining -
- cis -
- man -
- white -
- Spirit animal -
- Systematic -
- Systemic -
- Top-down approach -
- Totemic animal -
- Tawhid -
- Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) -
- Trans -
- gender -
- man -
- masculine -
- phobia -
- woman -
- Tribe -
- Triggers -
- Two-spirited -
- Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) -
- Undetectable -
- Unqueer -
- Indigenous -
- Vertigo -
- Visual -
- Vestibular migraine -
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG) -
- Viral Load -
- White -
- feminism -
- fragility -
- -ness -
- supremacy -
- woman tears -
- people (WP) -
- women (WW) -
- White supremacist capitalist patriarchy -
- womanism -
M-S
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+
T-Z
+-
+
- Top-down approach +
- Totemic animal +
- Tawhid +
- Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) +
- Trans +
- gender +
- man +
- masculine +
- phobia +
- woman +
- Tribe +
- Triggers +
- Two-spirited +
- Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) +
- Undetectable +
- Unqueer +
- Indigenous +
- Vertigo +
- Visual +
- Vestibular migraine +
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG) +
- Viral Load +
- White +
- feminism +
- fragility +
- -ness +
- supremacy +
- woman tears +
- people (WP) +
- women (WW) +
- White supremacist capitalist patriarchy +
- womanism +
- Women and people of colour +
+ avoid +
+ ++ minorities + + noun + +
+ ++ the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole +
++ Issues +
+Minorities is not always accurate. As it deals with numbers, often the insinuation of racial minorities is inaccurate, as communities of colour often outnumber white communities.
++ Impact +
+By repeatedly referring to groups as "minorities," they are being infantised and made to feel minor.
++ Alt Words +
++ + minoritised, or omit +
+ + ++ Better Alternate +
+ ++ minoritised + + adj + +
+ ++ groups resulting from social constructs have grant less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society +
++ Benefits +
+Minoritised places the emphasis on the power struggle, and on the systemic issues at play. It's also an adjective, which requires you to add "group" or "people" so it's people-first language
++ Impact +
+It removes the pejorative nature of "minorities".
++ Alt Words +
++ + minorities, or omit +
+ ++ avoid +
+ ++ English as second language (ESL) + + noun + +
+ ++ the teaching of English to people who speak a different language and who live in a country where English is the main language spoken +
++ Issues +
+Monolinguist, English-only speakers often refer to people who don't speak English natively as "ESL" or say they are learning a "second language". More often than not, this is not true, as many people are multi-lingual with 3 or more languages
++ Impact +
+It makes false assumptions about English learners, centres English as the "default" or "expected" first language, ignoring that many people learn multiple (>3), non-English languages first.
++ Alt Words +
++ + English as learning-language (ELL), or non-native, or omit (because do you really know, for sure?) +
+ ++ avoid +
+ ++ women and people of colour + + noun + +
+ ++ often used as a phrase to encompass "non-white, non-men," seeking to provide solidarity for these two groups +
++ Issues +
+What happens to women of colour? As a woman of colour, I am split between both women and people of colour.
++ Impact +
+As such, it elicits feelings of erasure for women of colour. It also neglects non-binary individuals.
++ Alt Words +
++ + people of colour and white women or people of colour, white non-binary people, and white women, find ways to reframe why this dynamic exists, or omit
+ +